Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 'll also give you hours of pleasure just by being there . |
| 2 | PASSENGERS are causing corrosion of aircraft merely by being on board , say scientists , who are investigating an unexpected corrosion threat caused by smoke , condensation and ‘ other emissions ’ from travellers . |
| 3 | In1984 he became secretary to the Museum Advisory Board for Scotland , then worked with Robert Anderson , now director of the British Museum , at the National Museums of Scotland before before being put in charge of Museums and Finance at the Office of Arts and Libraries . |
| 4 | If she had , she might now be wearing the crown of England instead of being holed up in Gloucester Castle , her supporters scattered and dwindling , and what little popularity she had once possessed destroyed by her own hand . |
| 5 | THE explorers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud were tucking into a hearty breakfast of eggs yesterday after being airlifted to safety from the icy wastes of the Antarctic . |
| 6 | A FORKLIFT truck driver vowed never to touch another drop of alcohol yesterday after being caught drink driving . |
| 7 | After noting that , in Owen 's expectation , passive resistance — that is , the ‘ sacred holiday month ’ or , in modern parlance , a general strike — would bring his new order of society painlessly into being , they next regret the persistence of the idea that Trade Unions , as Associations of Producers , should recover control of the instruments of production , an idea which they call ‘ Joint Stock Individualism ’ and which , they note , has scarcely been eradicated from the minds of the idealists of the trade union movement . |
| 8 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 9 | You see , it was entirely within his character to create a situation of interest either by being excessively cantankerous as an old man , or by exhibiting his somewhat childish traits . |
| 10 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 11 | HEAVYWEIGHT comic Roseanne Barr was seething with rage yesterday after being snubbed by judges at a top TV ceremony . |
| 12 | Overweight is caused by eating more energy-giving foods than are needed , so that the excess is turned into fat instead of being burned up . |
| 13 | Three-quarters of these would have brought Larkin in above Thompson FHE ( Un ) who was elected fifth , with Overend ( VUPP ) as runner-up instead of being elected sixth . |
| 14 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 15 | They have been trapped in adolescence ever since being tamed . |
| 16 | BARBARA Bush was admitted to hospital in Miami yesterday after being taken ill on a Caribbean cruise , a local radio station reported . |
| 17 | A 26-YEAR-OLD Keady man walked free from court yesterday after being cleared of fracturing a man 's skull in a pub brawl . |
| 18 | A 26-year-old man was recovering in hospital today after being shot four times in an apparent punishment shooting in the New Lodge area of Belfast last night . |
| 19 | A MAN was under police guard in hospital today after being shot during a burglary . |
| 20 | Constable Ian Johnston , aged 31 , a member of an elite Royal Ulster Constabulary unit trained in SAS tactics , died in hospital yesterday after being shot accidentally by one of his own team when they raided a Belfast house on Thursday . |
| 21 | A POLICEMAN was recovering in hospital yesterday after being stabbed . |
| 22 | An elderly walker was still poorly in hospital yesterday after being rescued by helicopter from the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 23 | A MAN died in hospital yesterday after being shot by police during a raid on a country post office in the Irish Republic . |
| 24 | MGM , which made such classics as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard Of Oz , has been in turmoil ever since being bought by controversial Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti last year . |
| 25 | Cup hero John Byrne meanwhile was back in training yesterday after being pulled out of Monday 's derby game to give him a rest . |
| 26 | BRITISH children are believed to be among 160 being held in care today after being rescued from a religious sex cult in Argentina . |
| 27 | Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ? |
| 28 | At the helm : a delighted Gavin Hastings in Edinburgh yesterday after being named Lions captain |
| 29 | The organism was in fact far from being healthy . |
| 30 | I 've seen prisoners become much more calm and be able to put things in perspective instead of being demanding |