Example sentences of "[conj] being [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 2 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
| 3 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 4 | Those two areas of work , two thirds of our work , I see as being areas of risk . |
| 5 | Similarly , at the other end of the spectrum , it is possible that transfer receipts may alter attitudes such that being a ‘ contributor ’ to the economic process ceases to be viewed as being part of society . |
| 6 | Whilst the generation of numerically controlled tapes for production is usually separated off as being part of CAM , it is really the machine-readable part of the tertiary design phase . |
| 7 | Compared to the Fourth Republic ( 1945–58 ) , which was truly parliamentary , the President in the Fifth Republic has important powers in emergencies , foreign affairs and the appointment of governments , as well as being head of state . |
| 8 | The Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance analysed 16 of the 17 cases reported as being cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 9 | One gets the sense of many families as being gatherings of children , some older than others , with no core of authority at the centre , however lightly handled . |
| 10 | Westminster 's station master apparent David Howell ( first class hons in economics at Cambridge , who happens to represent commuter Guildford as well as being Secretary of State for Transport ) , woke up with a jolt . |
| 11 | As well as being victims of crime women also suffer from the effects of fear of crime . |
| 12 | One Richard de Bello was canon of Hereford from 1305 until he died in 1326 , as well as being canon of Salisbury from 1298 , but he can not be identified with his namesake , the canon of Lincoln . |
| 13 | For example , he arrived at the contentious conclusion that the dramatic increase in recorded crime during the period of post-war economic growth in the United States had ruled out poverty and deprivation as being causes of crime . |