Example sentences of "for being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 2 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 4 | The next important lesson is to never apologise for being there . |
| 5 | AN EC working document on food hygiene , leaked before it had reached its consultation form , is already being criticised , for being too weak . |
| 6 | There was a church just to the north of there that had a reputation for being helpful towards homeless people — I 'd try my luck there . |
| 7 | It is often planted as an ornamental tree in warmer climates such as the Mediterranean , where it is valued for being very tolerant of salt-laden winds . |
| 8 | Seeing her had become part of her life , first pleasant , then ecstatic , then the whole reason for being . |
| 9 | And he said , It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery , neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome : but the noise of them that sing do I hear ’ . ’ |
| 10 | The presence of movement is one of our main criteria for being alive , and yet infant movements appear at least to be random , reflexive and undirected . |
| 11 | What was I doing admiring you for being so well-behaved , sitting there for hours content to have your arm round me ? |
| 12 | When we come to whip and dipole antennas , Gameson criticises the whip for not being directional and the dipole for being directional ! |
| 13 | Christopher Ricks , trailing his coat in the wake of the MacCabe Affair , claimed that the critic should have ‘ principles ’ rather than ‘ theory ’ , while Stanley Fish has made a comparable distinction between ‘ theory , ’ and ‘ belief ’ : ‘ A theory is a special achievement of consciousness ; a belief is a prerequisite for being conscious at all . |
| 14 | Accordingly , when the Virgilian voice does irrupt into these relatively late Cantos , it does so with all the more force for being unheralded . |
| 15 | Human rights organisations maintain that the men have been wrongly convicted and are being victimised for being members of the leading opposition political party . |
| 16 | Less determined countries export their waste and thus acquire an undeserved reputation for being green . |
| 17 | In a similar way , he developed a totally new technique for studying branching fibres by using pairs of fluorescent dyes , with the potential for being picked up by separate branches . |
| 18 | Nor did she worry overmuch that she had a reputation for being harder on women officers than men . |
| 19 | Yet another Pakistani , the former world champion Jansher Khan , was rather prematurely in the news for being rebuked by Chris Dittmar , the president of the players ' association , for allegedly being too demanding of the tournament organisers . |
| 20 | You only had to compare the opening version of Zobi la Mouche ( lumpy drums and shuddering halts ) with the neatly turned performance eventually wheeled out as an encore , to realise how this is a machine which runs the better for being well-oiled . |
| 21 | Despite a curt denial by the President of CBS News , David Burke , that the company knowingly broadcast faked combat film , Mr Rather 's reputation for being the soul of integrity in the increasingly make-believe world of American television news has been damaged . |
| 22 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 23 | Neil Kinnock scored most for being down-to-earth ( 41 per cent ) and was also considered more trustworthy than Mrs Thatcher — scoring 26 per cent to the Prime Minister 's 21 per cent . |
| 24 | The effect of this is , curiously for a man who claims to have been ejected from the Library Theatre in Manchester for being overdue with his punchlines , to slow things down . |
| 25 | They enter villages , round everyone up , and criticise those who support the Phomn Penh government for being ‘ lackies ’ of the Vietnamese . |
| 26 | Geldard , a winger , holds the record , with Ken Roberts of Wrexham , for being the youngest player to appear in the League . |
| 27 | That an English hero should become so popular on historically alien ground is a phenomenon best explained by Charlton 's instinct for being nothing but himself , a characteristic that appeals mightily to the Celtic nature . |
| 28 | The judge said that the officer was not on trial for being a ‘ faithless husband , womanising in his motor car or for breaching police regulations ’ . |
| 29 | He said the Conservatives had to win a reputation for being ‘ a listening party ’ , showing a willingness , where necessary , ‘ to reappraise ’ . |
| 30 | It has been a rebirth — and all the more vigorous for being so long overdue . |