Example sentences of "[prep] being [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 2 | Keith Hainge , 37 , has the advantage of being the parks area manager for Brent . |
| 3 | the whole business looks like being a swings-and-roundabouts affair ; but the worst should be known by about March unless there are any further hold-ups . |
| 4 | There is the rumbling , heard during the election campaign , that his organisation ‘ United We Stand America ’ is far from being the grass-roots citizens ' army that he says it is , more a body tightly controlled by Mr Perot and a handful of lieutenants in Dallas . |
| 5 | The last Archdeacon of Woodborough , a genial and easy man , had invited all the priests of his eight deaneries to a fork supper laid on with great relish by his wife , a woman whose every fibre rejoiced at being a clergy wife . |