Example sentences of "[pron] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | When trying to describe these facts , we find ourselves being sucked into the language of phenomenology with its core assumption that our experience consists of shifting mosaics of raw experiential data - colours , feelings of pain , desires , glimpsed movements … |
| 2 | ABOVE Another scene in the Seychelles this time offering us tranquillity for very different reasons ; the rocks and the overshadowing branches indicate to us that here we can enjoy good observation of our surrounds without ourselves being observed . |
| 3 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 4 | In our viewing of the other we see ourselves being viewed ; the recognition is mutual . |
| 5 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 6 | This sense of responsibility was now being seriously eroded by the continuous Ma'badong chants , and by our increasing desire to surrender to , rather than to observe objectively , the wave of history into which we now felt ourselves being helplessly , anxiously , gathered . |
| 7 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
| 8 | Most knitters would agree , that you never stop learning once you have a machine ; but what you make on it is not necessarily dependent on yours being the most up to date you can buy , or how many accessories you have . |
| 9 | I do not like to think of an intelligence such as yours being wasted , Mr Arkwright . ’ |
| 10 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 11 | Although I was complimented it did not prevent my being officer of the watch . |
| 12 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 13 | Maybe that was what started me on chemistry — or at least led to my being a participant one 5 November in filling the iron pots along the portico of UCL with coloured fire , an escapade that led to our being ‘ carpeted ’ by Sir Charles Goodeve ( plain Charlie he was then , and himself in much demand at departmental soirées for his rendering of Canadian College cheers ) . |
| 14 | Like Ulysses , I had , by my standards then , made un beau voyage , but I did not think it would result in my being content to stay at home thereafter . |
| 15 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Is my being here making matters even worse for you ? |
| 17 | ‘ What you mean is : there 's no chance of my being kept on after the three years are up . ’ |
| 18 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 19 | I brooded constantly over why my being a girl rather than a boy would make my life so different from my brothers ’ . |
| 20 | I think my transsexual obsession must have triggered puberty when I could not reconcile the fact of my being a girl with my intense crushes on other girls . |
| 21 | Any response from me would have resulted in my being kissed on the forehead and my hair tousled ( and no boy is happy in being so treated , especially by a brother ) . |
| 22 | I hope that my being there was helpful because I certainly came away with many happy memories and no one can take that away . ’ |
| 23 | The disadvantage of share schemes is , Mr Luder says , that ‘ it is all very well my being an employee of a subsidiary five tiers down of some major plc , and their saying ‘ Here is a dollar for a share option and you will be motivated if the share price rises ’ , but there is no direct link between cause and effect' . |
| 24 | My being hemmed in by well-armed stalwarts , was part of the plan . |
| 25 | I desire only to know that all is well ; that it is but my own foolishness , aided by my being here at so unholy an hour , which causes me such anguish … |
| 26 | ‘ You spoke of my being in danger — what has all this to do with me ? ’ |
| 27 | My mother insisted on my being one of his godfathers , a unique responsibility which has allowed me to offer him some tactful advice from time to time . |
| 28 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 29 | My healthiness , or sturdiness , as it was more commonly called , was another important aspect of my being the eldest child . |
| 30 | Such overcrowded conditions , together with my father 's low salary as a teacher , were probably as important factors as my own abilities in my being considered a suitable case for rescue . |