Example sentences of "being an [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a drive , however , has to be operationalized in some other way , since the animals do not have any direct knowledge of the matters relevant to inbreeding : the inhibition against mating has to be triggered by the recognition of or reaction to some property adequately correlated with the kin relationship , such as being an individual with which the animal has been brought up . |
| 2 | Self-confidence is self-grown and , not being an expert on its cultivation , I 'm not going to write about it . |
| 3 | The effect of the act was to bring into being an electorate in which working men were in a majority . |
| 4 | Deemed to have been a great success , the HAA indicated that this sort of event would become a regular part of their work — being an extension of their long declared task , to increase the fund of knowledge relating to the operation and display of historic aircraft . |
| 5 | This has the advantage of being an area for which accident statistics are routinely recorded as well as being easy to specify to subjects and involving many of the more interesting aspects of driving . |
| 6 | Production does not stop when it stops being an end in itself . |
| 7 | Schumpeter drastically narrowed the conception of democracy he used by defining it as " a political method … for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions " , and therefore , he said , " incapable of being an end in itself " . |
| 8 | As soon as Edward III died ( Wakefield being an executor of his will ) and a general reconciliation was mooted to look after the young Richard II , Wakefield was replaced ( 19 July 1377 ) . |
| 9 | While political consistency can be over-rated as a virtue — Ted Heath being an example of what happens to a politician whose mind remains fixed while the world moves by him — the rapidity with which Kinnock changed position may have damaged him more than his supporters thought it would . |