Example sentences of "of [pron] be [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three things about myself that might get in the way of me being assertive are : Three things about myself that will help me reach my goals are : |
| 2 | Most found jobs within a few weeks and the longest any of them was unemployed was three months . |
| 3 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 4 | the likelihood of the damage or of its being severe was due to characteristics of the animal which are not normally found in animals of the same species or are not normally so found except at particular times or in particular circumstances ; and |
| 5 | Part of you being alive is that you 're warm . |
| 6 | I mean the whole point of it is right is it does n't make any difference how you reply to an invitation . |
| 7 | Make absolutely independent of one another the record of what has happened and the record of what is required are never married . |
| 8 | They talk about the ‘ sustainable development ’ of natural resources , but their idea of what is sustainable is most unlikely to conform with the reality . |
| 9 | Assessments of what is reasonable are therefore contextually specific to the incident and the people involved , the contents of the excuse , and the particular constables concerned . |
| 10 | The question of what is misleading is determined under s21 on the basis of an objective test and extends to both the price itself and any method of determining the price . |
| 11 | Its relation … to our knowledge of what is true is very much the traditional one : observation sentences are the repository of evidence for scientific hypotheses . |
| 12 | The pottery was shut , the bookshop was shut , the dales countryside museum was shut and most of what was open was empty . |
| 13 | The strictest secrecy was maintained during the subsequent discussions , for premature disclosure of what was afoot was obviously undesirable . |