Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst he missed his brother 's company , he welcomed the opportunity for being alone with his thoughts . |
| 2 | Nicknamed ‘ Alpha ’ , she has the distinction of being the first woman , Regular or TA , to gain the coveted Provost Marshal 's Gold Whistle award for being top on her recruits ' course . |
| 3 | You 've certainly got me interested , and the shipping accounts may take my mind off being cross with you . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is the disinterested character of the reactions which is the criterion for being aware from other people 's viewpoints . |
| 5 | A bonus for being honest on this team , and being awake . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , ’ said Mounce , ‘ I 'm not going to give you a lot of crap about being pure as the driven snow myself . |
| 7 | It was the result of being obedient to God . |
| 8 | We got along well , + she had very few friends also , probably as a result of being friendly with me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In humans another example of classical conditioning is the fear of the dark as a result of being frightened as a child ( perhaps by a sibling ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Kenyan judiciary had been accused by the opposition of being pro-government after a series of rulings in support of the one-party state . |
| 13 | Detective Superintendent Bob Scott said : ‘ The family suffered the tragedy of being involved with both victim and perpetrator . ’ |
| 14 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 15 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 16 | I was no fear of being frightened of them because they were part of the establishment . |
| 17 | There was a terrible fear of Being Different in those two houses . |
| 18 | Erikson connects the fear of being empty with that of being left , the fear of abandonment . |
| 19 | Elisabeth was grateful that the Colonel had no intention of being unkind to his wife . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thank goodness neither Keininger nor The Londsdale Clock Co. of Swaffham , their agents , were guilty of the luxury of being rude to their customer . |
| 22 | Many clutched a commuters ' breakfast of buttered bun and polystyrene cup of coffee , weighing up the dilemma of being late for work against the lure of easy money . |
| 23 | And if Sam Snort hails ‘ Doyler as monumental ’ is he , perhaps , erring on the side of being excessive in his praise ? |
| 24 | To control for age when assessing the effect of being rich on preparedness to break the law , for example , we look separately at the young and the old . |
| 25 | So two different calculations are made ; the effect of being rich among the young is 0.433–0.391 , or +0.042 , and that among the old is 0.266–0.172 , or +0.094 . |
| 26 | The original effect of being rich in figure 13.2 ( +0.144 ) was spuriously high ; it was a product of the fact that young people are more likely to be rich and young people are also more likely to contemplate breaking the law . |
| 27 | Thus the total effect of being young on preparedness to break the law is 0.193 + 0.026 , or +0.219 . |
| 28 | We discover that there is a direct effect of both being female and job type on absentee behaviour , and an indirect effect of being female on absenteeism through the type of job women tend to hold . |
| 29 | A key area of dispute involved the wording of the bill 's provisions on " unintentional discrimination " , particularly the degree to which economic considerations could justify practices which , whilst not overtly discriminatory , had the effect of being disadvantageous towards minorities . |
| 30 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |