Example sentences of "[adv] [being] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ They kidnapped Richard ‘ and smytinge the said Margerie so being with childe that she fell downe as a dead woman there they let her lye , the which was the cause of the saide childe 's deth . ’ |
| 2 | So being on supplementary benefit was one of the obvious things that people in the dayroom , chose to look at , cos it affected most of them . |
| 3 | But rather than extract monopoly profits , firms can enjoy their market power by operating with higher costs so being x -inefficient . |
| 4 | But erm so being in hospital two years and then I was in St Giles for eighteen months , which is like Stoke Mandeville |
| 5 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 6 | Near me , in a white open-necked shirt with short sleeves was a stocky , rather wooden-looking man , who gave me a rather uncomfortable feeling of only being at the party because he had to be . |
| 7 | ‘ Only being in love ? ’ |
| 8 | Despite only being in his 20's , it is his second house . |
| 9 | Then I jogged past them and I thought , that 's not fair because they were only being like everyone else . |
| 10 | The characterisation of the policeman 's duty adopted in Coffin equates the nature of the policeman 's duty with his merely being on duty , which is a related but essentially different concept . |
| 11 | In addition to these defects , there is another reason why merely being against cruelty to animals is not enough . |
| 12 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 13 | The older , declining industries were nationalized , the Beveridge plans enacted , a National Health Service started and full employment maintained , the emphasis all being on the results of these policies , on their effects on people 's lives . |
| 14 | Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere . |
| 15 | One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force . |
| 16 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 17 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 18 | Do you think being in love is let's call it the mating instinct , is being in love merely the mating instinct operating , button one for yes and button two for no , let's er , let's seal that little lust abate there , well forty seven say yes basically I suppose basically being in love is lust , fifty three say no and what about that , that other point , I mean should you marry for love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , should you marry for love ? well what very modern people you are , cos eighty two of you said yes , fifteen said no , who said no ? |
| 19 | You 're normally never alone in prison , especially being in a dorm with eight people , and if you 're not used to it , the constant noise of people around you all the time is awful . |
| 20 | She had never liked being in the dark , especially being in unfamiliar places in the dark . |
| 21 | Not that I 'm desp'rate , mind , me fam'ly not bein' in want . |
| 22 | For one skate , on loan , to go round the block ( a distance of perhaps 500 yards ) the cost was one penny ; for two skates , two pennies ; any kid who took longer than 10 minutes ( thus being under suspicion of going further ) would be fined another two pence — or punched on the nose . |
| 23 | This impression of the infinitive event 's already being in the bag calls for a representation in which there is no separation between the event denoted by the infinitive and that denoted by bid , no way to conceive the bidding as existing without the infinitive 's event also being actualized . |
| 24 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 25 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 26 | Sun 's first problem will probably be getting Sun people themselves to use the stuff , the transition from C or even C++ to objects not being without its hazards as object people know . |
| 27 | The test of success is not being without problems but rather how well you can solve the problems and reconcile the difference . ’ |
| 28 | Not being for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons it is in the general enlightened opinion of the time wholly for the benefit of the community , although such benefit be intangible . |
| 29 | But , for all her new-found success , she regretted not being with the Englishman . |
| 30 | But I could n't bear … just could n't bear … the idea of her being alive and me not being with her … ’ |