Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] being in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adolescent penis insists on being in a state of almost constant erection , regardless of the appropriateness of the situation . |
| 2 | Lawyers representing the 51 who died when the Marchioness pleasure boat sank after being in collision with a dredger on the Thames , have given the owners of the vessels until tomorrow evening to agree to pay full compensation - estimated at between £6m and £7m . |
| 3 | Constant work : Andrew 's roles range from being in Brookside to Macbeth |
| 4 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 5 | And the telephone number I remember to this day , was Porthmadog so that shows it was at least probably the telephone to go into being in Porthmadog . |
| 6 | This group came into being in 1926 and disintegrated , also as a result of political events , in 1939 . |
| 7 | This brings on ‘ feelings of contentment associated with being in love , ’ says Prof. Diana Bunce . |
| 8 | Thus , the Gwent College of Higher Education was formed in September 1975 from Newport College of Technology , Newport College of Art and Caerleon College of Education ; while the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education came into being in September 1976 from the merger of three long-established colleges in the city of Swansea : the College of Art , the College of Education , and the College of Technology . |
| 9 | But , in the same ten-year period , no less than 1,278 new families came into being in the city , with the result that the number of houses built fell short of the number required . |
| 10 | A few months later he was back in court charged with being in possession of a gun with intent to commit a robbery . |
| 11 | The Division of Biological Sciences came into being in October 1990 with the merger of the Departments of Agriculture , Botany , Forestry and Natural Resources , Genetics , Microbiology , Molecular Biology , and Zoology . |
| 12 | The Islamic Republic of Iran came into being in January 1979 after the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 13 | Also popular are almond-stuffed olives ( although I always think the nuts suffer for being in the pickling brine ) and those filled with tiny pieces of anchovy , which balance the flavour of the fruits beautifully . |
| 14 | erm The national figure seems to be , the national figure of food poisoning cases this year looks like being in excess of sixty thousand . |
| 15 | D&B Software came into being in 1990 from the merger of McCormack & Dodge and Management Science America , mainframe software rivals . |
| 16 | Founded under a charter of 1694 , the Royal Hospital School came into being in 1712 . |
| 17 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 18 | RENFE came into being in 1941 . |
| 19 | Jose Maria Olazabal looked like being in a challenging position when he was 11 under with the par five 18th to come . |
| 20 | A Soviet-dominated regime was established in the Siberian region of Tannu Tuva in 1921 and a People 's Republic came into being in Mongolia in 1924 after Chinese occupying forces had been defeated . |
| 21 | He says Springhill Open Prison suffers from being in the shadow of Grendon gaol , the highly respected prison that shares the same site . |