Example sentences of "are [adj] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | A multitude of medical conditions are due to being overweight , which in many people may simply be the product of self-indulgence rather than food addiction . |
| 2 | • Other fish are sun-dried before being added to food dishes as a flavouring . |
| 3 | Every member of the Royal Family enjoys star status ; they are used to being the centre of attention and there is strong unstated rivalry between them . |
| 4 | Nothing unusual there ; comedians are used to being shouted at by the audience . |
| 5 | Widows will talk of being acutely aware of the gap by their side when they are used to being viewed as one of a couple ( obviously couples who divorce or separate feel the same ) . |
| 6 | Whether they will look after our type of clients in the way they are used to being looked after is of course a different question . |
| 7 | Children , if they are used to being treated with respect , will behave accordingly . |
| 8 | ‘ I can see you are used to being in charge . ’ |
| 9 | Penguins at Birdland are used to being the centre of attraction , some even starred in the last Batman movie . |
| 10 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 11 | Is it because you believe it wrong to do so , or because you are afraid of being caught and of the consequences if you are ? |
| 12 | Unconsciously we feel it was a fluke and we are afraid of being found out . |
| 13 | In contrast , other people who are afraid of being ordinary and who miss the diversion of continual excitement may need to create a series of crises and emotionally charged situations to reassure themselves that they are alive . |
| 14 | On the smaller Indonesian islands , where people are afraid of being killed by wild pigs , they have prefixed the names of biting flies and stinging plants with babi , meaning pig . |
| 15 | The Americans , in particular , are afraid of being beaten up . |
| 16 | ‘ There are certainly doctors who are unsuited to being gynaecologists , ’ he says , ‘ but they have to be weeded out earlier on . |
| 17 | Perhaps the dead body of the loved one expresses all the pathos of this absence , the helplessness of being watched , and not knowing Actors are paid to pretend that they are unaware of being watched , but they of course rely on the collusion of the watcher , and nearly always get it . |
| 18 | The deviation of the average Madeira composition from the correlation for the other islands supports the view that the origins of the Madeira magmas are distinct in being derived by small degrees of partial melting at high pressure in the garnet stability field , as garnet would cause fractionation of the rare earth elements . |
| 19 | Their origin has been disputed but analysis has now shown that their compositions are consistent with being made at Castelli in southern Italy . |
| 20 | We are fortunate in being an exception to these rules . |
| 21 | Except for the climbers and ramblers , which are amenable to being trained and grown on walls and fences , roses can be said to positively dislike being shut in . |
| 22 | The effects of sniffing are similar to being drunk on alcohol . |
| 23 | There are lots of things about being a Guide which are similar to being a Brownie — but there are also lots of new and exciting things for you to look forward to . |
| 24 | Others who are insecure about being adopted may feel ashamed and confused by being ‘ different ’ . |
| 25 | Among the other species which can be considered as useful for the heated aquarium , but are less popular due to one reason or another , the following are worthy of being listed . |
| 26 | Pin 3 waveforms are inverted before being applied to the switching transistor ( TR1 ) . |
| 27 | The band , who have shot to No. 11 with Drive , say they are sick of being mobbed wherever they go . |
| 28 | We are lucky in being helped to envisage these statues by possessing a fine bronze statuette of identical character ( fig. 13 ) . |
| 29 | This alarms others who are unimpressed by being able to order their groceries down the tube and remember the TV-eye in Orwell 's 1984 which spied on the populace as well as thundering propaganda messages at them . |
| 30 | The twelve paintings are remarkable for being executed on canvas when normally such representations were in fresco , but Ribera is known not to have been a fresco painter . |