Example sentences of "[conj] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the studies described above have been concerned with patients suffering from serious psychiatric illness or being at immediate risk of suicide . |
| 2 | Staring at each other while having dinner or being at a party , then go home , go to bed and talk . |
| 3 | She had discovered that it was n't a proper job ( as she called it to herself ) since none of them was paid for going there or being on the rota . |
| 4 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 5 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 6 | In Britain , the character of being a mobilizer or a reconciler is not related to being in any one party or being in opposition or government . |
| 7 | Consider the offence of driving , attempting to drive or being in charge of a motor vehicle on a road or public place whilst unfit to drive through drink and drugs , where appropriate . |
| 8 | In a political system in the later eighteenth century in which political position and parliamentary place were still largely a function of kinship with , or being in client status to , political notables parliamentary seats were frequently uncontested to reduce the role of opinion in the political process and to save money . |
| 9 | A study by Moxon ( 1999 : 15 ) shows that as many as two-fifths of those whose offences involved less than £200 received unsuspended custody ( largely as a result of past offending or being in breach of an existing court order ) in spite of the persistent concern in recent years about the need to restrict custody to only the most serious property offenders . |
| 10 | Or being in some way fragile and in need of protection . |
| 11 | Office , or being in authority , is a major source of power in organizations . |
| 12 | He says that being at Barrow Wake does bring back bad memories . |
| 13 | Those who join a local tinnitus group may find that being with others who know the problems and can share their experiences is comforting , even reassuring . |
| 14 | We knew that Frank got on better with us than he had with his fellow countrymen and hoped that being with us would help bring him back to himself . |
| 15 | ‘ I can truthfully say that being with the recent squad has been like being with a family . |
| 16 | There is a genuine fear that being on the periphery of Europe will be an obstacle to trading with out partners within the community . |
| 17 | We all reckon that being as the prize for lowest weight was a year on the Cambridge Diet he fished without any bait at all on the hook . |
| 18 | So in earnest are they that they do n't even recognise that being in earnest is the act . |
| 19 | Some people found that being in a crowd aggravated tinnitus . |
| 20 | Like poor Annie , many people find that being in crisis is their only way of asking for love and concern . |
| 21 | It is worrying that after all this time Labour appears to think that being in opposition means solely that one must oppose everything . |
| 22 | That author presumably thinks that being in a human body is not essential to . |
| 23 | ‘ Thanks , Leith , ’ he said quietly , and added emotionally , ‘ Lord , I always thought that being in love would be a wonderful time ! |
| 24 | There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ . |
| 25 | No electric shocks were actually being transmitted , and the experiment , rather than being about learning and punishment , was concerned with how far people would obey others who held an official or expert position . |
| 26 | Women are under more ideological pressure to maintain a perfect home in owner-occupied property , where standards are seen to be the individual responsibility of the owners , rather than being outside a tenant 's control as in rented property , although of course women in all forms of accommodation are subjected to these pressures . |
| 27 | On the contrary , while we are asleep our consciousness seems to happen to us , rather than being under our control . |
| 28 | ‘ Nice to see you back , ’ said chairman , Alban Maginness to his former party colleague as Austin Currie went through his 18th or 19th conference , this time though , from the unfamiliar position of looking at the rostrum rather than being on it . ’ |
| 29 | There 's nothing worse than being on the beach half way through a game when the batteries pack up . ’ |
| 30 | I loved being out on the sea — it felt much more like ‘ real ’ sailing than being on a lake . |