Example sentences of "[being] in the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I adored it — the glamour , the feeling of being in the hub of things which I love — I love clothes — I used to make up every day and make myself look nice and meet people … to me it was n't work , every minute of it was enjoyment … |
| 2 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 3 | There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ . |
| 4 | For Ricky Stride , association with Minton was like being in the presence of an exploding star : anything might happen , for he created around him an exciting and excitable atmosphere . |
| 5 | It felt almost like being in the presence of nuclear waste ; the longer he stayed around her , the more danger he 'd absorb . |
| 6 | The relevance of this case in the present context depends on the statements of principle contained in the judgments which , being in the Court of Appeal , are binding upon us . |
| 7 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 8 | Typically , a laudatory essay he wrote was called The Painter of Modern Life on the subject of the illustrator Constantin Guys ; this gifted if minor artist was accurately targeted by Baudelaire as being in the mainstream of contemporary social and political life . |
| 9 | Being in the Retinue of Osiris . |
| 10 | While deprecating such tactics as not being in the spirit of scientific inquiry , nevertheless Johanson and others do quickly get around to innuendos about Kalb 's sources of finance . |
| 11 | While the BMC has always avoided awards in the past as not being in the spirit of climbing , it was persuaded by the increasing use of crags like Stanage by large groups under instruction . |
| 12 | While in command of Venturous I missed out on a lot of the big drug operations through being in the north of Scotland , but I always enjoyed working as part of a team with the other cutters or any of the shore units . |
| 13 | Something went wrong while mum was in hospital and I ended up being in the home for seven months . |
| 14 | We will also be more prepared ( though by no means certain ) to comply with personal constraints under two conditions : that the constraints are seen as being in the service of some greater ‘ good ’ and that they are seen as operating justly and fairly . |
| 15 | Vinnen , whose offensive smacked of anti-semitism in that it centred on the figure of Paul Cassirer and lambasted the critics for being in the service of speculators and dealers , called for a boycott on the purchase of non-German art . |
| 16 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 17 | Being in the middle of Europe , Germany could not do this alone and she formed an alliance with Austria , enabling her to hide her hegemonial ambitions under the label ‘ Mitteleuropa ’ ( Central Europe ) . |
| 18 | To be a healer , a reconciler , means being in the middle of the road , and the middle of the road is where you get knocked down . |
| 19 | Flames seethed along each crack in its wall , and for Ruth , standing on the circular floor , it was like being in the middle of a fire — an icy , silent fire . |
| 20 | There are 8–10 arm spines , the dorsalmost 3–4 are small , thin and spine-like the remaining gradually become larger towards the ventral side with the largest spines being in the middle of the series . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the thought of being in the middle of them that makes me come over all shaky . ’ |
| 22 | being in the middle of it , and |
| 23 | We have shed the handicap of being in the middle of another company 's operation . |
| 24 | The troubled programme has been bedevilled by the tardiness of some countries in implementing the 278 proposals required to remove all internal frontiers to business , and Mrs Thatcher found herself in the slightly unusual position of being praised by Mr Jacques Delors , the president of the European Commission , for being in the vanguard of the reform process . |
| 25 | As a result , the agriculture industry is in the ironic situation of being in the vanguard of scientific and technological progress and subject to rapid and innovatory change , yet with a reputation for being backward and conservative and the very antithesis of modernity when it comes to its labour relations . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that community mental handicap teams are seen as being in the vanguard of this movement . |
| 27 | I look forward to this country being in the vanguard of the single currency because of the advantages that it will bring us and the Community . |
| 28 | It was rather like being in the army on active service . |
| 29 | After being in the sun for some time , my skin feels like tissue . |
| 30 | The best advice for sunburn is to avoid being in the sun for long enough to burn . |