Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every change he has advocated has always struck him as being of instant urgency . |
| 2 | God is spirit and then when Christ came , when he was born , people had difficulty , great difficulty in accepting him as being of God . |
| 3 | What must have distinguished him as being beyond normal was his unconventionally high state of consciousness . |
| 4 | Kerry Downes , in his book English Baroque Architecture , calls this ‘ an elevation of great distinction ’ , while Pevsner refers to it as being of ‘ an elegant design and by an unknown architect , . |
| 5 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 6 | Historic Scotland listed it as being of international importance , but the National Heritage Memorial Fund decided not to support plans to preserve it . |
| 7 | The invoice for the painting described it as being by Munter , but was later discovered to be a forgery . |
| 8 | In both cases the answer is that we will conform when we see it as being in our interests to do so . |
| 9 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 10 | Jack said he would and twenty-three years later , in May 1990 , Roger Corman named it as being among the best pictures he had made , and by then the total had exceeded 200 . |
| 11 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 12 | Altogether he struck me as being in better spirits than usual ; and I learnt later , though not from him and I can not vouch for its veracity , that he had had himself psychoanalysed . |
| 13 | Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind ! |
| 14 | In meditation it is therefore wise for us to record all our images and visions and remember them as being of supreme value to ourselves . |
| 15 | Guide books and handbooks for travellers often dismissed them as being of little interest . |
| 16 | So individualism must regard them as being in some way free from the determining influence of society , and it is this which makes the properties of individuals into a suitable stopping point for explanations . |
| 17 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 18 | Er , we have been in er organising these new seats , about the same time as the Labour government took in nineteen seventy eight , er I said that when I intervened upon him and I say it again it 's worth paying on the records , exactly the same pressures have been on us as were as on them . |