Example sentences of "[adj] with [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said Jay , ‘ and what 's wrong with being a lover ? |
| 2 | There 's nothing wrong with being friends — it 's only when you do summat selfish it 's wrong . |
| 3 | There is nothing wrong with being a bit conservative and building up financial resources , and not just jumping straight in . |
| 4 | As a final point on goal-setting for weight , there is nothing wrong with being slightly under or over your goal weight for any one day or week . |
| 5 | What 's wrong with being patriotic ? … |
| 6 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's wrong with being trendy , ’ snaps Dmitry , ‘ if it 's a positive trend ? ’ |
| 8 | There is nothing wrong with being realistic and I suppose Scotland has about 20 or so players who could fit into the national side without weakening it , especially as we have recently lost a third of that national side . |
| 9 | I see nothing wrong with being a career officer . |
| 10 | What 's wrong with being ‘ only human ’ ? |
| 11 | believing that there is something wrong with being lesbian or gay and referring for treatment ; |
| 12 | And would you mind explaining what is wrong with being Normalien ? |
| 13 | There 's nothing wrong with being innocent or |
| 14 | Small ( and what was wrong with being small , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 15 | ‘ There 's nothing wrong with being emotional about a little boy 's death . |
| 16 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's wrong with being regarded as my girl ? ’ |
| 18 | The Fabian Review , a good way to eavesdrop on thoughtful Lefties ' ruminations , leads with ‘ What 's Wrong With Being Middle Class ? ’ by Mo Mowlam , MP . |
| 19 | There 's nothing wrong with being optimistic , but Bulgarian sweeper Nicolai Iliev is surely going over the top with his prediction . |
| 20 | There 's nothing wrong with being Conservative ! |
| 21 | What 's wrong with being gay ? |
| 22 | I think our problem here is it gets so windy with being on the corner . |
| 23 | The only people they were not popular with were studio production crews . |
| 24 | I think there 's a danger that you can go over the top with praise , in that you 're anxious to give quality feedback , the thing that you have to be careful with is that it 's not just meaningless like that , because that can be just as bad as giving negative feedback . |
| 25 | They are also lively with being the most noisy and then bringing and into the noise . |
| 26 | But hey , there 's a bounty out , he could do with the loot and you can tell from the narrowing of those famous Eastwood eyes that he 's bored rigid with being a decent human being . |
| 27 | Their origin has been disputed but analysis has now shown that their compositions are consistent with being made at Castelli in southern Italy . |
| 28 | The bodies had been stretched , which was consistent with being hung in chains . |
| 29 | In addition , slow waves consistent with being asleep may occur during lapses in performance . |
| 30 | He began to feel uncomfortable with being someone else 's total reason for getting out of bed in the morning . |