Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone said that they had heard him suggest that all guests should be breathalysed at the door , for Rush had the reputation locally for being a more than usually dedicated policeman . |
| 2 | Working-class people — presumably for being harder-hearted than others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , the thing I enjoy most about being in the side is experiencing our amazing support . |
| 5 | Lewis-Ann sat under a huge umbrella , fully clothed , complaining bitterly about being too hot . |
| 6 | I was more worried early on about being compared to the Postcard groups like Josef K. ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Like Ian Page ( lead singer of Secret Affair ) will go on about being a mod is being an individual . |
| 8 | He kept going on about being aligned and interfacing . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh well , serves me right for being nosey . |
| 11 | Xanthe had cheered up remarkably through being the centre of sympathetic attention , and Filmer was telling Mercer Lorrimore he should sue the railway company for millions of dollars for negligence . |
| 12 | In the past it hovered uneasily between being a rival to gold in jewellery and coinage and being a highly versatile industrial material . |
| 13 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 14 | Even carrying on after being told that the stand was full . |
| 15 | A POLICEMAN who walked into a hen party in a pub had to fight to keep his clothes on after being mistaken for a stripper . |
| 16 | HOW proud Karen Costen must be of her two-year-old son who battled on after being given two weeks to live and has finally had a kidney transplant . |
| 17 | The 32-year-old woman was attacked in Arkendale Street at 1.20am after being grabbed from behind and knocked to the ground . |
| 18 | We did n't seem to worry too much about being a couple of strokes off the lead . |
| 19 | We were not thinking much about being women in psychology . |
| 20 | These single parents care about being mothers but they do n't care so much about being married and they care even less for being rendered dependent . |
| 21 | Only through being exercised in a disciplined manner can freedom be preserved . |
| 22 | The apparatus contributes no truth of its own but , he claims , theory construction needs it because facts become significant only through being lodged in a matrix defined by analytic statements . |
| 23 | Although structuralism , in its extension of the Kantian position , has constantly asserted the cultural nature of those natural phenomena which impinge upon us only through being assimilated by our own categorizing processes , these may still be differentiated from artefacts , within which such a system of categorization is an inherent attribute . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh ! ’ said Fenella and stood still and clasped her hands together and for a moment forgot entirely about being in danger in the house of an ancient and evil sorcerer . |
| 25 | And if you do n't care much for being in your thirties , wait until the forties . |
| 26 | So much for being only a blown up light-heavy ! |
| 27 | thank you very much for being so |
| 28 | These single parents care about being mothers but they do n't care so much about being married and they care even less for being rendered dependent . |
| 29 | The same as they did with the one in Bangor , they closed that down for being political . |
| 30 | Some of Gladstone 's fellow competitors obviously could n't care less about being beaten into the minor placings , but fellow breeders were more forthcoming . |