Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UEFA spokesman said : ‘ Tbilisi argued that the only thing they were guilty of being naive but the rules are clearly stated . |
| 2 | They were funny without being malicious . |
| 3 | We planted 118 trees in all and at that time were fortunate in being able to take advantage of a Cambridgeshire County Council grant-aided scheme for amenity tree-planting . |
| 4 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 5 | They were the first molluscs ( such as clams , snails and octopuses ) and arthropods ( insects and crabs ) , and were halfway between being single-celled organisms and a complete colony of cells . |
| 6 | Onshore , our plant change engineering [ PCE ] contract for Shell Northern Plants at St. Fergus continued to make good progress and we were successful in being able to extend this contract to Shell 's gas terminal at Mossmorran . |
| 7 | The evidence , then , from reconstructions of many paleontologists , is that many dinosaurs were far from being sluggish . |
| 8 | My thighs were far from being perfect but , my goodness , they did look much better . |
| 9 | It is plain too , that dinosaurs in their highest forms were far from being lumbering brutes ; and there is overwhelming evidence that what finally defeated them was not competition from ‘ higher ’ forms of life , but changes in climate , possibly exacerbated by catastrophic events , including the impact of giant meteors . |
| 10 | Moscucci claims that women were far from being passive in relation to their doctors . |
| 11 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 12 | But as well as the instinct to get right away , the two painters were alike in being unable to draw acceptably . |
| 13 | Although the recording equipment was not concealed , and was monitored quite openly by the fieldworker , it was not always clear whether all participants were aware of being tape-recorded . |
| 14 | Knowing that other girls would laugh at her , Ann decided that being notorious was preferable to being ridiculous . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I can manage , ’ she replied positively , although she was apprehensive of being alone in the house . |
| 16 | He knew he 'd convince her ; he was offering all the best ingredients of a successful untruth — it was possible without being obvious , surprising without being mysterious . |
| 17 | I 'd liked her until the money lending began , and I was sorry for being unkind to her . |
| 18 | He was doubtful about being sole incumbent in five parishes — he had visualized a team ministry — and even more doubtful about the rural ministry in itself Did he … |
| 19 | But Branson was not interested in being a gardener for art ; he was interested in being successful . |
| 20 | In later years , by contrast , he came to speak in public less and less frequently , despite being repeatedly urged to do so by Goebbels and others , evidently realizing only too well how closely the effectiveness of his rhetoric was dependent on being able to report success and to hold out hope for an end to the war . |
| 21 | Small ( and what was wrong with being small , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 22 | For the first time in her life she was conscious of being independent and in charge . |
| 23 | E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) . |
| 24 | However , it seemed from his more relaxed air that he had accepted she was innocent of being involved in any plot devised by the beautiful and desirable Lotta — whoever she might be ! |
| 25 | Best of all , Joe was sure of being able to stay home after his trip . |
| 26 | Lydia was tired of being good . |
| 27 | Baldwin was good at being undazzled . |
| 28 | The actor-turned-producer who , by this time , in 1966 , was notorious for being difficult on the set ? |
| 29 | Even the factory ambulance driver , Greg Bradshaw , who was renowned for being able to cheer the most dire of situations , seemed subdued . |
| 30 | Flynn got all the really difficult contracts , or the ones John was unsure of being able to visit regularly ; Flynn was the one man John would trust to manage an entire contract on his own . |