Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] being [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 2 | Being so close to Lord Byron was somewhat like being close to big game — a lion encountered at the foot of Kilimanjaro . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure you 'd get on better by being nice to the girl . |
| 4 | Until , like a jet of cold water , she remembered Didi Lombard 's words ; ‘ … you 'd get on better by being nice to the girl … you could have her eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 5 | I disliked these two intensely and did n't like being told off for being rude to them , so I told her peevishly that I was n't staying while they were there and kicked off the slippers , put on my clogs and ran out banging the door behind me . |
| 6 | Far from being antagonistic to the requirements of society — as was assumed by many theorists — infants are genetically biased towards the social and towards displaying social behaviours . |
| 7 | But far from being hostile to industrialization they showed increasing concern with economies of scale , technological innovation and economic growth . |
| 8 | Some minerals seem to survive more or less unaltered even after being subject to prolonged weathering , whereas others decompose very rapidly . |
| 9 | Following heavy rationalisation , it generated £200m turnover last year , and has turned around from being loss-making to earning ‘ profits that are less than the industry average ’ . |
| 10 | She gave me her apologies earlier for being unable to be here for this stage of the debate . |
| 11 | Patiently Rain concentrated on the windows , instead of being alert to every sound . |
| 12 | Many industrialists and people from local authorities on both sides of the political spectrum are saying , ’ We should have more power over the decisions that affect our lives ’ , instead of being subject to arbitrary decision making from institutions down here . |
| 13 | For , instead of being tantamount to the mysterious suggestion that actions are uncaused , the claim that they are autonomous can be interpreted as a summing up of the individualist view that they must be explained , at least in part , by appealing to the intentional properties of individuals . |
| 14 | This is really a differentiation within the category of sexual instincts as first conceived , the ego instincts of the first conceptualization being taken into a differentiation within the sexual instincts instead of being opposed to them . |
| 15 | Instead of being akin to a photograph , it is more comparable to a photomontage . |
| 16 | You mean apart from being married to him ? |