Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some animals compromise by being active at dawn and dusk when the hazy twilight helps to hide them . |
| 2 | Our business and personal lives depend upon being able to use words successfully . |
| 3 | There is no theoretical reason to suppose that a transition from labour market income to state benefit income induces the onset of dependency : indeed , logically the reverse should happen , as individuals shift from being dependent on finding employment in the labour market , to being in receipt of an independent income guaranteed by the taxable capacity of the state . |
| 4 | Only a few varieties , Improved' , are self-fertile and even these varieties benefit from being cross-pollinated by another compatible variety . |
| 5 | In her letter ( ‘ Punchbag ’ 12 — 18 February ) Mrs H M Presley defends the monarchy and attacks Punch for being cynical : a trait unbecoming in what she describes as a ‘ reputable ’ magazine . |
| 6 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 7 | The more successful the town and country is the more chance we as individuals have of being successful . ’ |
| 8 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 9 | Sixty per cent said that their opinion had been changed during the course of the evening ; this is certainly an indication that people respond to being involved in informed public discussion . |
| 10 | Few people admit to being inadequate in this area , most like to think that they communicate rather well . |
| 11 | For that reason , some recording projects end by being orphaned . |
| 12 | Another suggestion , favoured by Dr Roper on the basis of the radio-tracking results , is that in a large sett badgers benefit from being able to move from one sleeping chamber to another to escape fleas . |
| 13 | Other possible explanations are that badgers simply like large setts because they are better ventilated , and that subordinate females benefit from being able to breed in remote outlying chambers , well out of the way of dominant breeding females . |
| 14 | There are splendid examples of schools whose whole educational strategy has dramatically altered as a result of the revolution of which the school library media centre was a part ; and yet in so many others , the facilities remain underused , the teaching in the classrooms remains traditional , and the librarians in the media centre complain of being peripheral , neglected and undervalued . |
| 15 | And if men revert to being masculine , the Hic Mulier figure continues , women will once again become feminine and subordinate . |
| 16 | Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds . |
| 17 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 18 | Interpretations depend upon being able to link the background measures ( class , size , socio-economic group etc. ) to those of performance . |