Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be just like being asleep in a box . |
| 2 | Or we can decide that there must be more to being alive than this and , like Jonathan Livingston Seagull , become intrepid explorers of life 's possibilities . |
| 3 | Not least because he is the first senior politician for some time to write a book that is stylish , witty , beautifully observed and therefore vastly superior to the plodding tone employed by most ex-Cabinet ministers who confuse being there with being able to write an interesting account of what happened . |
| 4 | We 've two weeks to go and we are nowhere near being ready . ’ |
| 5 | This is rather like being able to draw a straight line tangent at any point on a smooth curve . |
| 6 | ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on . |
| 7 | ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on . |
| 8 | So it 's not about being aggressive it 's not about being aggressive or submissive it 's about being clear to true to yourself being aware of what you want from any given situation . |
| 9 | So it 's not about being aggressive it 's not about being aggressive or submissive it 's about being clear to true to yourself being aware of what you want from any given situation . |
| 10 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 11 | There is more to being green than recycling your newspapers and using unleaded petrol . |
| 12 | Nigel Barley 's book is partly about being human within an academic context he sees as largely hypocritical about fieldwork . |
| 13 | What a guide IF YOU are thinking of a driving holiday in France this year it is well worth being able to parle a little motoring Francaise and the AA , along the National Tyre and Autocare have come up with ways of helping to make yourself understood . |
| 14 | In fact it 's almost worth being dead if you want to travel in an ambulance . |
| 15 | Being so close to Lord Byron was somewhat like being close to big game — a lion encountered at the foot of Kilimanjaro . |
| 16 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 17 | It was more like being present at a seance than at a lecture . |