Example sentences of "[prep] being [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Ana who came forward as Maggie came into the room , and clearly she did not let her blindness get in the way of being hostess for her brother . |
| 2 | Further suppose that he had tried Kant 's remedy of being kind to his dogs , only to discover that it served merely to fan the flames of his misanthropy . |
| 3 | The advantage that Paisley enjoyed of being master of his own house has already been mentioned . |
| 4 | The very act of sharing this experience with men and women of every background and colour of skin , heightens that sense of being part of something that is truly a part of history . |
| 5 | That feeling of … of being part of it all . ’ |
| 6 | obviously we got to have fears , because there 's something to be , they 're the largest nation in fucking Europe so everybody 's got to fear them , because they co-hearse all the other into being part of their group and that sort of stuff got ta be |
| 7 | The decisive factor , though , was that Mrs Thatcher , for all her election triumph , was far from being mistress in her own house yet . |
| 8 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 9 | Beryl and Peter Benyon acknowledge their thanks and say : ‘ We wish to thank you for your great support and for being part of our work . |
| 10 | If one came into your house then , by being kind to it , you could appease its master , the Devil , and avoid his wrath . |