Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaders of the community and the religious élites differentiated themselves from society at large by adopting these virtues ; monastic communities had come into being dedicated to their observance . |
| 2 | Well , my mother I left school and me mother said , the Labour Exchanges had come into being , er this was nineteen nineteen , they were in existence in Nottingham . |
| 3 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 4 | Once a hierarchical order of open systems had come into being , natural selection , operating on the elaboration of new hierarchies and new cybernetics , became capable of generating states of greater heterogeneity with integrative systemic control . |
| 5 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 6 | Such was the heady nature of the stock market at this time , when share prices in obscure shell companies could shoot upwards on vague promises of exciting future developments , that Garth Enterprises had advanced from being a penny share to the dizzy heights of nearly £4 a share . |