Example sentences of "of [being] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceremony , as a religious ceremony , is a mockery , yet as a social ceremony , with the gathering of relatives and friends , the honour of being asked to be godparents , the tea-party afterwards and the christening presents given ( silver objects in particular ) , the whole thing has a significant place in the lives of the people concerned . |
| 2 | As such Reports go , therefore , Younger can be said to have been fairly effective , in spite of being limited by being unable to consider public sector threats to privacy . |
| 3 | These were acknowledged publicly by no less a figure than a former Prime Minister , W.L. MacKenzie King , at the communal celebrations of Lyon 's 60th birthday and his 35th anniversary of engagement in social interests , as well as those of his friend of many years ( to whom Lyon Cohen had diverted the honour of being invited to be the Member of Parliament several years before ) , Sir Samuel W. Jacobs , KC : ‘ Our friend finds himself today , ’ , commented Jacobs , ‘ the acknowledged leader of Jewry in Canada , a position acquired by years of self-denying effort … respected by his own , and also by the larger community in which we dwell . ’ |
| 4 | In the history of social improvement and development , compacts and other examples of ‘ limited ’ ( e.g. ‘ feel good ’ ) partnership activities run the risk of being judged to be brief and enthusiastic failures . |
| 5 | Although paperwork is boring , it is not difficult to do , but there are other duties where there is a risk of being shown to be incompetent , which are disliked for this reason . |
| 6 | The women , however , were more aware of being pushed , of being expected to be unusual . |
| 7 | The nervous stress and strain of being forced to be in Ross 's company , each and every day , had really taken a heavy toll on her reserves of strength . |
| 8 | The fear of being deemed to be trading ( rather than investing ) in futures contracts , and so liable to taxation is thought to have deterred such institutions from using them as part of their investment strategy . |
| 9 | Not for the experience of being a successful playwright ( he penned The Crucible among others ) , or for the trauma of being accused of being a communist in the ‘ Reds under the beds ’ witch-hunt of the 1950s . |
| 10 | At the risk of being accused of being a pedlar of yet another quack remedy I wish to argue that a rights-based theory , derived in part from the influential rights thesis recently put forward by Ronald Dworkin ( Dworkin , 1978 ) , is also capable of addressing some of these difficulties confronted by our orthodox political and constitutional theories , in addition to its more immediate relevance with regard to the specific issue of tax diversion ( Dignan , 1983 ) , and other civil libertarian issues ; though to do so it stands in need of some revision . |
| 11 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |