Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where about was that now ? |
| 2 | was erm Terry and supposedly Bill and supposedly Colin , or between were , were looking after |
| 3 | It would be fair to sack the employee as incompetent or for being dishonest . |
| 4 | If this is true , it would have conferred upon him at least one important qualification for being the Messiah , or for being presented as such . |
| 5 | They suggest that one of the principle problems confronting refugees is the feeling of guilt at having left relatives in danger or for being alive when so many have died . |
| 6 | Or for being reactive and negative ? |
| 7 | I think you can be oppressed through being exploited , harassed , discriminated against ; or through being ignored and looked straight through . |
| 8 | They have to die through neglect or through being supplanted by a better one . |
| 9 | For each trait ( for example , the trait of being tall or short , or of being smooth or wrinkled ) , each individual receives two genes , one inherited from each parent : thus an individual might receive two genes for tallness , or two for shortness , or one of each . |
| 10 | The questions to be asked in relation to adoptive parents are : first , whether they can successfully parent a child and develop deep attachments to it without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ or of being in charge and whilst there are continued visits or contacts by birth parents or birth relatives . |
| 11 | He knew that he should discuss her grandfather with Mariana but remained frightened of hurting her , or of being the immediate instrument of her hurt . |
| 12 | This is why the Bible shows so much concern about the danger of having ‘ hardness of heart ’ , or of being coldly indifferent in our thoughts towards God . |
| 13 | A single person can quite easily spend a week at a health farm or clinic without any feeling of loneliness or of being out-of-step with everyone else . |
| 14 | Thus he may admit that words like ‘ right ’ and ‘ wrong ’ can be , and often are , understood in a non-utilitarian fashion , perhaps simply to express ill considered emotions in statements incapable of rational testing or of being true or false . |
| 15 | ‘ The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 16 | Hence the head in profile in his Prince of Wales portrait , ‘ a symbol either of Charles attempting to acquire wisdom , or of being watched continuously , in his everyday life — by the media , or even by tradition ’ . |
| 17 | Such is the fear of funding ‘ products ’ or of being too ‘ near market ’ , that we are failing to address the needs of 80% of today 's IT professionals — the users of IT , most of whom work outside academia and the IT supply industry . |
| 18 | Paul spends most of the rest of his letter dealing with the problem in Corinth ; he does n't come down on the side of being totally separate or of being totally indistinguishable in lifestyle — but you 'll have to read that for yourself . |
| 19 | Few managers admit that boredom is a threat to the job but equally few would deny that being part of a pilot scheme or of being part of a trial run of new development can carry with it some air of excitement . |
| 20 | Maybe you have fallen away from the regular practice of your faith ; perhaps , you have a feeling of hurt or of being let down or ignored — well , it 's easy to come back again . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 23 | ( 6 ) A legal estate is not capable of subsisting or of being created in an undivided share in land or of being held by an infant . |
| 24 | ( 6 ) A legal estate is not capable of subsisting or of being created in an undivided share in land or of being held by an infant . |
| 25 | Whether the word is morphologically simple , or whether it is complex as a result either of containing one or more affixes ( that is , prefixes or suffixes ) or of being a compound word . |
| 26 | In that sense , it is like any other job of work , or like being any parent . |
| 27 | In most situations , a particular sentence will form part of a larger discourse and , when this is so , another important factor affecting use of the passive is whether actor or acted-upon is the theme of a discourse ( i.e. what the discourse is about ) . |
| 28 | The results of this experiment showed that both the animacy of the actor and acted-upon , and whether actor or acted-upon was thematic , affected subjects ' use of passives . |
| 29 | He showed no further interest in the magazine or in being outside . |
| 30 | Whether in performing experiments , or in being directed to primary sources of evidence in history , or in becoming acquainted with the journal literature , or in designing artefacts to meet a design problem , we encourage students along the path of their own immediate experience . |