Example sentences of "[prep] being completely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bungalows are in the process of being completely refurbished . |
| 2 | Infants go through a period of being completely self-centred . |
| 3 | This horrid feeling of being completely alone is illustrated rather tragically by Tolstoy right near the end , when she sees a joke ( about Tyukin , a hairdresser ) and has no one to share it with at all . |
| 4 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 5 | Such an explanation , quite apart from being completely wrong , is extraordinary in the light of the fact that both Marx and Engels warn throughout their work that biological models are inappropriate to human societies . |
| 6 | This sequence is saved from being completely arbitrary by the narrator becoming involved in the plan of others . |
| 7 | Whether they functioned as transmitters was difficult to prove : the technical problems of access to particular sites inside the skull , located in the middle of the dense networks of nerve cells and fibres which make up the brain , are still far from being completely solved . |
| 8 | It is this which has helped to prevent it from being completely submerged by later developments . |
| 9 | His recent article entitled ‘ Hoof It Bency ’ , apart from being completely devoid of grammar or sentence structure , was one long eulogy in praise of that grass Pybus . |
| 10 | Any powerfully gripping activity will produce , its casualties , and many programmers find their relationship with the machine exciting and satisfying without being completely taken over by it . |
| 11 | Loads of power without being completely wild . |
| 12 | Thus exchange rates are regarded by some as being completely unpredictable . |
| 13 | You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by being completely honest , even if you feel your devotional life is in a mess . |