Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
| 32 | The health authority is entitled to object and does object to being subject to an order of the court with penal consequences in the event of disobedience when it does not know precisely what is required of it . |
| 33 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 34 | ‘ God in his mercy , lend her grace , ’ she muttered , thinking of Anna , her Anna , who had grown from being such a dull child into a truly engaging woman , a woman so richly deserving of being lent a little of God 's grace . |
| 35 | After all this I 've had with being late you know ? |
| 36 | Donaldson had got over being self-conscious about his signing quite early on in his training , but as he squatted down before the cage and made a greeting sign he felt that early embarrassment returning . |
| 37 | I have had a message from the Stan Standard Mercury , from Davis , that my a county has been hysterical , we 've talked about being paranoid one time this morning . |
| 38 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 39 | As creator the sun god had brought into being other cosmic powers , those of air ( Shu ) , earth ( Geb ) and sky ( Nut ) . |
| 40 | The Carlow men , ahead two goals and three points to five points within sight of half-time , had to settle for being level at the break after Mick McCarthy 's well struck goal . |
| 41 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 42 | You invent jobs , that 's your trouble , you ca n't bear to think of being idle . ’ |
| 43 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 44 | That was the young man 's name , and within minutes of crossing the threshold , he had insisted on being one of the family . |
| 45 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 46 | In less than 30 years , the British economy had declined from being one of the strongest to one of the weakest in Europe . |
| 47 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |
| 48 | The station pilot at Holyhead , a Class 08 Diesel Shunter , had failed before being able to shunt the rake of NWCE coaches from the sidings and into the platform . |
| 49 | A traditional worker who absents himself without good reason or who persistently fails to show up for his job is likely to he disciplined or dismissed , and a casual worker who fails to appear without being able to offer good justification , or who is seldom available , is likely to be dropped from the list of those who an organisation will contact . |
| 50 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |
| 51 | In order to study effectively you need to start by being certain what it is you are studying , and what it is you want to learn . |
| 52 | Another time I shall talk about taxes , which , as we said in our election broadcast a week ago , we plan to reduce by being careful with your money — another good idea that no-one else had thought of . |
| 53 | The Royal firm may now like to consider that in other countries , monarchies have benefited from being open . |
| 54 | The doctors are being held to account for being efficient . |
| 55 | The tedium of routine sampling means that a conscious effort is needed to do the unexpected : ‘ randomness is n't an in-built thing , you always have to think about being random . ’ |
| 56 | Many have failed by being slow to realise that commanding a high market share in a single country is seldom enough . |