Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 2 | The other essential attribute is obviously that of being able to link what one perceives through the brain to what one is doing with one 's body . |
| 3 | It would encourage the idea that to be old and disabled is not so different from being young and disabled ; that dementia is a mental illness , not an inevitable feature of old age . |
| 4 | He is capable of cold-blooded or berserk courage in desperate moments yet is constantly afraid of being cowardly . |
| 5 | " I used to teach , " said Mrs Denham , " but I was always so afraid of being boring that I could never talk for long enough . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 7 | In turn , Eleanor introduced her to someone else , a young woman named Mary Hammond-Heath , who had been at Oxford with Eleanor , and who was not much interested in being married . |
| 8 | Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive . |
| 9 | British historians are especially fortunate in being able to draw on the oldest tradition of popular autobiography in the world . |
| 10 | Ludens was suddenly conscious of being hungry again . |
| 11 | And she was so tired of being afraid . |
| 12 | The rule constraining low v non-low realizations is much closer to being categorical in the low-status inner-city area than in the outer city ; indeed , for the T and TS environments , it is categorical . |
| 13 | It is evident that the basic rule constraining variation in realization of ( o ) is much closer to being categorical in the strongly vernacular , low-status Clonard area than in the outer-city areas ; a static representation like rule 1 is apparently not too wide of the mark as a guide to phonological patterns in the Clonard . |
| 14 | The ‘ everlasting arms ’ hold out a cushion against our own inadequacies which , like a doctor 's placebo , is none the less effective for being imaginary . |
| 15 | People had begun to feel less ashamed about being greedy and of wanting more than their share of fairness . |
| 16 | He felt suddenly happy at being alive . |
| 17 | God I 'm so excited at being able to come to study and |
| 18 | Changes in how you look can drastically affect your life , many ‘ skinnys ’ were so distressed about being able to ‘ pinch-an-inch ’ they felt it was time to place their heads in nooses . |
| 19 | ‘ Not when I 'm so close to being happy — ’ |
| 20 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 21 | Susan was so frightened of being alone , that she would not go to sleep , in case we left her . |
| 22 | For instance , in his discussion about " navigable rivers " he actually says that the phrase : ( 24 ) the only navigable river unambiguously expresses the characteristic notion , and not that of being true for some particular occasion ; but this does not seem to give an indisputable picture of normal English usage , and the same goes for his remark about : ( 25 ) the only river navigable which he describes as " unambiguously occasion " . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not sorry for being angry over that , ’ he said , surprisingly . |
| 24 | Is this largely due to being able to get many more measurements at many different places and stick them together rather rapidly using a computer ? |
| 25 | They can be interested on the central questions , if the central questions are sent in a framework that they do understand , and perhaps it 's best when it 's done by somebody who is bold , not afraid of being amateurish , not afraid of being controversial , because theology erm is a world that can mean obfuscation . |
| 26 | They can be interested on the central questions , if the central questions are sent in a framework that they do understand , and perhaps it 's best when it 's done by somebody who is bold , not afraid of being amateurish , not afraid of being controversial , because theology erm is a world that can mean obfuscation . |
| 27 | Not content with being obsessive about failed British pop performers like Belouis Some and Matt Fretton ( who , as they will always tell you , were ‘ big in Japan ’ ) , these star victims get all steamed up about their own home-grown talent-free singers , which the record companies churn out year after year . |
| 28 | The Profitboss is not fashion-conscious in being management-wise . |
| 29 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 30 | Looking at the near-sensational claims in the press release — whoring ? smuggling ? — I see that Mary Kingsley is not alone in being economical with the truth . |