Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working successfully involves being able to cope with 100 per cent of the cases which arise . |
| 2 | Remember that suicide only stopped being a crime in 1956 and until then people were imprisoned if they were found to have attempted suicide . |
| 3 | It had long stopped being a remote dream to Rose . |
| 4 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 5 | For twelve years I had greatly enjoyed being a guest of some of the members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on their championship links of Muirfield on the coast of East Lothian , where once or twice as a boy I had played with my grandfather . |
| 6 | It 's a tremendous team , I have greatly enjoyed being part of it . |
| 7 | And in , it said there 's , find out all you want know or much better being put . |
| 8 | It is a delight to have Bishop Harris with us once more — he has only missed being present twice in 14 years . |
| 9 | I am old enough to remember being an underdog . |
| 10 | Miss H. is no more a lesbian than you are , so stop being silly and just thank your lucky stars that she 's teaching Constance so much . ’ |
| 11 | Undergraduates of moderate ability do not much like being asked to choose between differing judgements on the same text ; I can imagine them becoming confused and resentful if they were asked to choose between different critical approaches and all their attendant ideological baggage . |
| 12 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 13 | I only contacted him because I 'd read the article and did n't much like being used . ’ |
| 14 | They must also be large enough to avoid being eaten by Lionfish . |
| 15 | Equally important , how many of them will be strong enough to avoid being taken over by foreign companies in the long run ? |
| 16 | The ability to listen whilst another person talks does not merely entail being aware of the words spoken to us . |
| 17 | This is not simple mimicry , which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species . |
| 18 | But even this overestimates the degree of homogeneity : some Nigerians were rich enough to escape being ‘ black ’ ; some whites were always too poor ever to be ‘ white ’ . |
| 19 | But perhaps to avoid being carried away by nostalgia , he wisely left the bidding to his wife and daughter . |
| 20 | In contrast to Foch always ready to adopt the conqueror 's pose , one foot before the other , Pétain so hated being photographed that the only portrait Repington could find in 1918 for The Times was one of him characteristically glaring at the camera . |
| 21 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |
| 22 | As I think members will have realised from my visits to each of our 25 Sections during my year of office , I very much enjoyed being Chairman . |
| 23 | So religions , symbolic systems , and ideologies develop a metaphysical life of their own and acquire qualities which stubbornly resist being reduced to mere reflections of the social order . |
| 24 | There we discovered the £7.50 hamburger meal , flower-selling girls with Chanel handbags and wealthy exhibitionists who apparently enjoyed being part of a human zoo , preening themselves on their extravagant yachts while the hoi-polloi stared up from the quayside . |
| 25 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 26 | It does not necessarily remember whether it was hurt or not : it only remembers being afraid . |
| 27 | Gloucestershire has many small streams and rivers , one of the better known being the River Churn . |
| 28 | After all , it 's not much use being fingered as someone who 's going places if there 's nowhere to go . |
| 29 | It does n't necessarily mean being totally idealistic — there are some situations where you can take control — ’ |
| 30 | Being poor , she knew from experience , did not necessarily mean being without taste . |