Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 2 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 3 | We hear talk nowadays about being good Europeans . |
| 4 | Dessie Farrell , one of the few Dublin players to emerge from last with his reputation intact , is back in the side today after being absent for two months through injury . |
| 5 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 6 | Yet Merson played the full 90 minutes in the reserves against Wimbledon on Tuesday instead of being involved in the defeat at Ewood Park ! |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a question not of being racialist but of being realistic ? |
| 8 | Even their experience of unemployment was different , for they might still have to ‘ work ’ at home instead of being idle . |
| 9 | Cut glass was what is now called crystal , though it is nothing of the kind , and it has advantages apart from being elegant . |
| 10 | One o w one point off for being cocky ! |
| 11 | But participant observation you stand the best chance really of being able to check the accuracy of what , th they 're telling you in terms of behaviour and wha , and what people say , and what different people say in those situations over the , so you know . |
| 12 | Gordon Beamish was a man who made a fetish out of being lynx-eyed . |
| 13 | She gave me her apologies earlier for being unable to be here for this stage of the debate . |
| 14 | Another trend is that many of the new firms actually like being small . |
| 15 | Pearce lists these as two important qualities for a top manager together with being able to look at a problem and see the two or three key factors . |
| 16 | But Mr Ishihara has made a career out of being shocking , and he has a good motive . |
| 17 | Certainly the worst way to come to terms happily with being alone is to struggle constantly against it , always waiting for someone else to come along and take away our loneliness . |
| 18 | But I tell you what you do n't get any badges nowadays for being honest , I know that much . |
| 19 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 20 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 21 | He was subjected to beatings just for being black . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it was a titter far from being mirthless . |
| 25 | Well you got quite a lot out of being able to evaluate . |
| 26 | but that 's only putting his hand out without being brutal about it , that 's not as dangerous as being coming out entirely from behind the shield . |
| 27 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 28 | The Scottish Consumer Council has criticised Scottish bus services generally for being unsatisfactory , particularly in providing timetables and other information , especially at bus stops . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |