Example sentences of "of [being] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 2 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 3 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |
| 4 | Ruth no longer had any feeling of being below the sea . |
| 5 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 6 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 7 | But every woman makes a choice about her appearance ; she is exercising the power of the Queen of Beauty , which is to express qualities of being through the physical medium . |
| 8 | They have a dimension of being beyond the reach of rational formulation , and they often disconcert us by behaving quite differently in one novel , in one volume , from what the previous volume had led us to expect . |
| 9 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 10 | For a moment she had the strong feeling of being at a funeral . |
| 11 | The experience of being at a full-blown Quaker school made a profound impression on me . |
| 12 | One of the benefits of being at a university is the range of lectures that are put on each week on topics ranging from Chinese ceramics to nuclear power stations . |
| 13 | A system of retention ratios at least gives exporters part of the benefits due to them , since they are assured of most of their import needs , and can sell any surplus foreign exchange on the black market to other enterprises , who also benefit by being able to obtain foreign exchange at a price instead of being at the mercy of administrative decisions by bureaucrats . |
| 14 | There was a sense of importance , of being at the heart of things . |
| 15 | No 3225 Set by Watson Weeks Following the TV exposé of the horrors/miracle of being at the school founded by A S Neill , could we have a Speech Day address by the principal of Summerhill ; an explanation by a parent of why they have chosen it ; or a statement by a former pupil of the advantages gained by a Summerhill education . |
| 16 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 17 | Instead of being at the top , they were being concentrated in middle management , where all the hard detailed work had to be done . |
| 18 | As I read , I am struck again by the laibon 's sense of being at the centre of the universe . |
| 19 | There is now no doubt that those societies who were not represented will deeply regret the step they adopted , for those would-be representatives have missed having had the honour of being at the best gathering ever held in the annals of the deaf and dumb . " |
| 20 | The logo and style are designed to reflect the best traditions of the Board and its policy of being at the leading edge of education for industry and commerce internationally . |
| 21 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 22 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 23 | This corresponds to the main character 's own personal situation of being without a man . |
| 24 | It is consistently found that the impact of being without a job varies between groups of people , and research attention is particularly directed to the identification of variables which might moderate this impact : for example , age , socio-economic status , sex , length of unemployment , personal employment commitment , and psychological vulnerability . |
| 25 | Collection of a library of photographs of known and unfamiliar faces that can then be selected on the basis of being of a similar degree of familiarity , of similar appearance , or of similar occupation . |
| 26 | It is claimed that the meaning of existential assertions can be fully clarified only by clarifying the mode of being of the one who makes , and understands , such assertions . |
| 27 | The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all . |
| 28 | This involves — whether we like it or not — teaching them how to think ; the capacity for being scholars in the true sense of the word has to be shared with everyone instead of being for an elite of specially gifted , specially privileged pupils . |
| 29 | I believe the excitement of being with a criminal turned her on . |
| 30 | When he had sex , he secretly fantasised that he was the woman but even that was confusing because the concept of being with a man repulsed him . |