Example sentences of "[noun] of [being] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the result of being obedient to God . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Elisabeth was grateful that the Colonel had no intention of being unkind to his wife . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thank goodness neither Keininger nor The Londsdale Clock Co. of Swaffham , their agents , were guilty of the luxury of being rude to their customer . |
| 7 | What we are really talking about of course is entitlement — sharing the privileges of being able to be in touch with other cultures . |
| 8 | It has the advantage of being close to most of London 's tourist attractions . |
| 9 | In attempting to assist pupils in both these areas the Catholic teacher is conscious of the necessity of being true to educational principles . |
| 10 | It 's just a case of being true to what you feel and being true to yourself giving yourself as good a chance as any of being heard . |
| 11 | It was a raw cold too , the cold of being close to the ocean , a wet cold — — if that is not a contradiction for a temperature down around — -12°C ( 10°F ) . |
| 12 | To have committed the heresy of being uncommitted to the right political dogma — or worse still being a political atheist may not mean the death penalty , but it sure is a heinous crime in the times we live in . |
| 13 | Here the owners saw the advantages of being close to their raw material of steel , their power supply from coal , and their markets in Glasgow and along the Clyde valley . |
| 14 | Writing in 1966 , Edward Boyle felt it necessary to defend the House of Commons — and Crosland in particular — from the accusation of being hostile to the universities : ‘ there is little envious ill-will towards the universities in the present House of Commons ’ . |
| 15 | Sarah understood instinctively the romantic feel of the product , coupled with Laura 's personal philosophy of being true to oneself as a woman and letting everything revolve around the home . |
| 16 | Olongapo has the distinction of being adjacent to the US naval base in Subic Bay . |
| 17 | The complexity stems from the aim of being fair to everyone , particularly existing investors . |
| 18 | It will probably turn on the relative importance of being close to the cash market ( SOFFEX ) as against the synergistic presence of other contracts on the same exchange ( LIFFE ) . |
| 19 | They gave me the vitally important gift of being able to ‘ feel ’ an audience , a precious sixth sense that can not be taught . |
| 20 | The consensus is that working from a base in the area being covered has advantages that outweigh the inconvenience of being unable to just pop in to the sales centre . |
| 21 | Scarcity , combined with the positive quality of being resistant to wear , has made platinum more valuable than gold . |
| 22 | Somehow she did n't want to spoil the lovely feeling of being close to Miguelito , hearing his romantic whisper , ‘ Señorita … ’ |
| 23 | but , it 's like sum , it 's like some people of being allergic to different things , you know . |
| 24 | And that 's not to say that they replace triggers , because they are actually have a very important role to play in terms of being able to er maintain arbitrary business rules and model the way your organization works , inside the database repository . |
| 25 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they 're violently opposed to women 's liberation , they hate the name women 's liberation , because they 're very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home . |
| 26 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they are violently opposed to women 's liberation , or they hate the name women 's liberation , because they are very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home , so it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 27 | In his constituency , the pressures of being nice to people , opening fetes , and being one of the lads had driven Grunte to seek the comforts of alcohol — that necessary anaesthetic without which politics would soon become intolerable . |
| 28 | So individuals may only have rights against their government in the strong sense of being immune to the countervailing claims of general utility if those rights may be derived from that overriding principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 29 | The chairman of Cheltenham Conservatives has accused former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of being disloyal to the Government . |
| 30 | Some sponges have the property of being able to ‘ rebuild ’ their colonies of cells if they are mashed up . |