Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |
| 2 | Erm er I think they 're probably and and they 're putting more effort into getting the unemployed off being unemployed off being unemployed into course are n't they so probably the they may have improved things but anyway the basic erm idea of it was that you borrow money er you borrow erm money to finance a course which is going to get you a job . |
| 3 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 4 | Being gripped by a narrative is an altogether wider notion than what is presaged by the two-in-one of being outside yet inside Raskolnikov 's ‘ strange smile ’ : the rehearsal of the murder , the murder sequence itself , the three long duels with the detective Porfiry , the suffering , the hesitation , the final climb up the police-station stairs . |
| 5 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 6 | One of the papers had attacked the commercial for being too emotive . |
| 7 | But Christine felt vexed when at the next Pack Meeting Sarah lost points for the Six through being a slowcoach . |
| 8 | The Times of Jan. 10 reported that the United Kingdom government had pressed for the release of the six after being informed of their plight by Roland ( " Tiny " ) Rowland , the chief executive of the Lonrho group of companies . |
| 9 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 10 | Only ‘ serious ’ disorders should excuse the accused from being found guilty . |
| 11 | The worst of being in a job which the world regarded as not the right place for him was that the world would not leave him alone . |
| 12 | It is also a real lesson in how to avoid the obvious without being freakish , how to start with the stimulus of a hot vegetable dish , how to vary the eternal purée of potatoes with your meat ( lacking chestnut flour we could try instead a purée of lentils or split peas ) , how to follow it with a fresh , bright , unexpected salad ( that excellent mixture of corn salad and beetroot — how often does one meet with it nowadays ? ) and since by that time most people would have had enough without embarking on cheese , de Pomiane is brave enough to leave it out . |
| 13 | Otherwise I 'll pay for the fine for being on a yellow line . |
| 14 | You only had to compare the opening version of Zobi la Mouche ( lumpy drums and shuddering halts ) with the neatly turned performance eventually wheeled out as an encore , to realise how this is a machine which runs the better for being well-oiled . |
| 15 | The coffee back at our base was good , the meal cooked from the sleeping bag the better for being so . |
| 16 | One needs to focus on what one is trying to achieve even in brief interactions for all social work is the better for being planned and evaluated . |
| 17 | But , if you can contrive it , it will be all the better for being a happy end that will not have been wholly obvious to your readers . |
| 18 | It 's a good story and all the better for being more or less true . |
| 19 | People never change for the better by being hated , judged and condemned . |
| 20 | If we wished to pay for welfare in a way that was less burdensome on the poor without being massively destructive to the higher income groups what might be done ? |
| 21 | Evidence for the importance of this ‘ rural-urban shift ’ can be found in the fact that London sustained such heavy population loss in the 1970s despite being located at the heart of the most dynamic region in the UK . |
| 22 | The net result was that the United States moved during the 1970s from being 90 per cent self-sufficient in energy to importing 50 per cent of its needs . |
| 23 | This shift in the economic status of the elderly from being predominantly without assets in the early years of this century towards having at least some private financial resources must represent an overall increase in the economic independence of the elderly population . |
| 24 | It seems to me hard to do the latter without being able to do the former . |
| 25 | Not any the less for being that — just different . ’ |
| 26 | I know that you worry , even though I beg you not to , and I love you all the more for being so sweet about it . |
| 27 | It exists all the more by being in the same place as power . |
| 28 | The West Midlands has seen a remarkable economic collapse : Birmingham and Coventry were second and third only to London in the growth of new jobs between 1951 and 1961 , but between 1970 and 1983 relative earnings in the West Midlands fell from being the highest to being the lowest of any region . |
| 29 | The nearest to being quenching is the ‘ white ’ beer of Berlin . |
| 30 | Although I had thrown a stink-bomb through their letter-box ( I was dared to do so ) and had once pulled the belt off Gertie 's dress when teasing her , I do believe that I was the nearest to being a friend of Jossey 's , than anyone . |