Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] being [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These single parents care about being mothers but they do n't care so much about being married and they care even less for being rendered dependent . |
| 2 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 3 | In the great amount of talk about the permissive society , it is sometimes claimed that marriage is losing its sanctity because couples live together without being married and the number of illegitimate babies ( those born to unmarried mothers ) is rising . |
| 4 | So it 's not about being aggressive it 's not about being aggressive or submissive it 's about being clear to true to yourself being aware of what you want from any given situation . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a question not of being racialist but of being realistic ? |
| 6 | Good luck to her , she knows she can get away with being sexy and saucy . |
| 7 | The strengths of the approach are clear : it gets away from being content-dominated and takes the teaching of skills seriously , especially skills of stilling , centredness and attentiveness . |
| 8 | British realism is distinctive not in being realistic but in being exportable , embarrassment and all ; and it is hard to resist the conclusion that the world buys it , including the American and Soviet worlds , because it is curious about what it is to be British . |
| 9 | Thomas Edmund Carr Stuart , 40 , of Bath Terrace , Seaham , was bound over by Darlington magistrates yesterday for being drunk and disorderly on a train from Kings Cross to Newcastle . |
| 10 | Darrell Clayton Henderson , of Malvern Crescent , Darlington , was fined £50 and ordered to pay £20 costs by town magistrates yesterday for being drunk and disorderly . |
| 11 | Thomas Edmund Carr Stuart , 40 , of Bath Terrace , Seaham , was bound over by Darlington magistrates yesterday for being drunk and disorderly on a train from Kings Cross to Newcastle . |
| 12 | Terence came close to being stroppy until Mallachy got to his feet and squared his iron jaw , but the incident was enveloped by a late surge to the bar . |
| 13 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 14 | Or we can decide that there must be more to being alive than this and , like Jonathan Livingston Seagull , become intrepid explorers of life 's possibilities . |
| 15 | There is more to being green than recycling your newspapers and using unleaded petrol . |
| 16 | Yes , we do put children off by being rigid because a child , I am sure , does n't see the world in a rigid way . |
| 17 | Yes , we do put children off by being rigid because a child , I am sure , does n't see the world in a rigid way . |
| 18 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 19 | A good caddie also has to be something of a psychologist , knowing when to cajole his player into making a better effort ; calming him down when he 's just three-putted or blazed a drive into the rough ; or steadying him up from being over-confident or over-zealous when the adrenalin is flowing after a couple of good holes . |
| 20 | Report back about being aggressive and we 'd like you to report back modelling an aggressive style , yeah ? |
| 21 | The unpredictability of being on duty , the anxiety arising out of being unsure whether anything substantial is going to happen and being in a constant state of readiness in case it does , is one of the stresses associated with duty periods and referral and investigative work generally . |
| 22 | Far from being unnational or anti-national , ( Social Democracy ) places nations at the foundation of its world structure . ’ |
| 23 | However , what the questions and responses do illustrate is that the notion of a discipline or subject , which is the basic building-block of the undergraduate curriculum , far from being straightforward and clearly defined , is in fact extremely complex . |
| 24 | These perceptions , far from being simple or accidental , are intimately related to issues of authority and control and the need to concentrate power in the hands of certain groups of people . |
| 25 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |
| 26 | Far from being dry and insignificant facts , the questions of attributing particular pots to particular people and places are treated with real and infectious enthusiasm . |
| 27 | All these reforms may be necessary , but alas , so far from being sufficient that a reassessment of future conservation needs to be made . |
| 28 | Far from being funny or ludicrous , the sound was deeply chilling . |
| 29 | Far from being illicit and sub rosa , these practices and mechanisms are heralded as being essential to the ‘ norms ’ which make relations between socialist countries ‘ organic ’ and ‘ of a new type ’ . |
| 30 | His argument , now familiar to many of us , is that science , far from being linear and progressive , is dominated by ‘ paradigms ’ . |