Example sentences of "[prep] its being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hildyard and Olson put it : ‘ the authority of rhetorical conditions are collapsed onto the truth conditions so that if a statement is true to the facts or to the text itself , that is sufficient condition for its being interpersonally appropriate ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 2 | It lies in sops or bellies , surrounded by hard rocks , which will readily account for its being suddenly lost ; and these sops or bellies , being generally at considerable distances , will equally well account for the difficulty with which it is commonly regained … ’ |
| 3 | He does not say anything about its being most helpful to be allowed to create trusts using the words ‘ I do not doubt ’ . |
| 4 | I say new civilization , I do n't know that I care about its being so very different from the best that has been , but it must be as good as the best that has been . |
| 5 | The stage covers nearly 800 square metres , the largest in Europe , and its size is further enhanced by the optical trick of its being slightly sloped . |
| 6 | Not just at contemplation of the glass but at the thought of its being here , in the flat , with me . |
| 7 | The grave , on the contrary , has them in the minimal sense of its being merely an emphatic statement of someone 's duties towards it . |
| 8 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 9 | This increases the speed at which a rug can be woven but results in its being less compact and durable . |
| 10 | Hinds ( 1977 ) bases his paragraph divisions on a similar principle , quoting Grimes as support , and emphasising the significance of ‘ participant orientation ’ — that is , the unity of a paragraph derives from its being mainly about a single participant . |
| 11 | Yet , in what can be a highly specialised market , its adviser may also be unable to market it openly without its being immediately identified . |
| 12 | So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand , he was referring to its being qualitatively present . |
| 13 | Whatever action is taken on the final report of the Buea project ( and I have fears that the heavy reliance on expatriate experts in the project and in drawing up the report may not contribute to its being widely read and followed in Cameroon ) there can be no question that the project marks an important landmark in curriculum planning in Africa . |
| 14 | That the subject was in fact normally accorded Cinderella status mattered little to the many who objected to its being there at all . |
| 15 | Such arguments show that the instrumental as well as the non-instrumental validations of consent depend on its being freely given . |
| 16 | According to Berkeley , however , finite extension is not infinitely divisible , and any problems and questions which rely on its being so are spurious . |
| 17 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |