Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] being [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 2 | Whilst he missed his brother 's company , he welcomed the opportunity for being alone with his thoughts . |
| 3 | It is fairly easy to envisage the value of human acts as being capable of definitions falling on , above or below a neutral line between good and evil . |
| 4 | Roy , of Gerrards Cross , Bucks , received his award for being one of the ‘ best entertainers in the world ’ . |
| 5 | Nicknamed ‘ Alpha ’ , she has the distinction of being the first woman , Regular or TA , to gain the coveted Provost Marshal 's Gold Whistle award for being top on her recruits ' course . |
| 6 | ‘ The idea came from speaking to businessmen who had missed important meetings after being stuck in a cab in heavy traffic , ’ says Cave . |
| 7 | You 've certainly got me interested , and the shipping accounts may take my mind off being cross with you . |
| 8 | The Christians soon acquired a reputation even among the pagans for being generous with their money ; they thought it better to give than to enquire too closely into the merits of the recipients , and were therefore occasionally easy game for confidence tricksters . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is the disinterested character of the reactions which is the criterion for being aware from other people 's viewpoints . |
| 10 | A bonus for being honest on this team , and being awake . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , ’ said Mounce , ‘ I 'm not going to give you a lot of crap about being pure as the driven snow myself . |
| 12 | ‘ What Difference … ’ , always a single and a throwback to very early rehearsals , achieved instant recognition for being one of the shortest singles in history . |
| 13 | Lyons flies out to Brunei this week to take charge of the national team less than six months after being surplus to requirements at Huddersfield Town . |
| 14 | It was the result of being obedient to God . |
| 15 | We got along well , + she had very few friends also , probably as a result of being friendly with me . |
| 16 | One result of being open to children 's ideas in science is that all pupils in a class are taken seriously as learners and thinkers . |
| 17 | In humans another example of classical conditioning is the fear of the dark as a result of being frightened as a child ( perhaps by a sibling ) . |
| 18 | Ideally this does not ensue from flagrant compromises in outlook and working methods but rather as a result of being true to real aims and objectives . |
| 19 | The Kenyan judiciary had been accused by the opposition of being pro-government after a series of rulings in support of the one-party state . |
| 20 | Detective Superintendent Bob Scott said : ‘ The family suffered the tragedy of being involved with both victim and perpetrator . ’ |
| 21 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 22 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 23 | I was no fear of being frightened of them because they were part of the establishment . |
| 24 | There was a terrible fear of Being Different in those two houses . |
| 25 | Erikson connects the fear of being empty with that of being left , the fear of abandonment . |
| 26 | Fiercest in his assessments was Vladimir Brovikov , the Soviet ambassador to Poland , who accused Gorbachev of being obsessed with democratization " without discipline or order " and concluded : " It is said that the people back perestroika . |
| 27 | Elisabeth was grateful that the Colonel had no intention of being unkind to his wife . |
| 28 | It will be decades before most countries outside Western Europe allow themselves the luxury of being nice to animals , but the earlier we lay the technical foundation the earlier that day may come . |
| 29 | Thank goodness neither Keininger nor The Londsdale Clock Co. of Swaffham , their agents , were guilty of the luxury of being rude to their customer . |
| 30 | Many clutched a commuters ' breakfast of buttered bun and polystyrene cup of coffee , weighing up the dilemma of being late for work against the lure of easy money . |