Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 've been through being influenced by people . |
| 2 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 3 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 4 | So they 've been about being erm |
| 5 | But , however confident you are after being wooed and won by an overseas recruiter , you may feel isolated and vulnerable once you have signed a contract and find that you are on your own . |
| 6 | Here all the valued qualities are of being a ‘ real ’ man , a ‘ hard ’ man . |
| 7 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 8 | ‘ I can truthfully say that being with the recent squad has been like being with a family . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ Arranged marriages are like being raped . |
| 10 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 11 | According to the Guinness Book of Records , the oldest archery company in Britain is the Society of Archers of Yorkshire which was not formed until 1673 but has been in being since then . |
| 12 | This inspectorate has been in being three hundred and fifty years . |
| 13 | There was a lot of reluctance to take the action they have , at the same time the scheme has been in being since 1946 . |
| 14 | If one affirms that there is and can be only one ultimate and self-sufficient principle , the transcendent Father , and also that the divine Triad is three distinct realities ( as Origen had taught ) , it is not easy then to affirm that the Son and the Father are in being identical or ‘ of one substance ’ — not at least without fairly complicated explanations . |
| 15 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 16 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 17 | Finally , it is of great importance to discover more about how the listener 's brain identifies what it receives from the ear ( stages 4 and 5 ) ; many experiments have shown how sensitive we are to very slight acoustic differences and how flexible we are in being able to adjust to very different speakers . |
| 18 | But it did , just my , my quick sieve every time we got these there always appeared to be a slot where it did n't seem to me to be worth being open and and operating |
| 19 | But , however many ways there may be of being alive , it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead , or rather not alive . |
| 20 | But it will be like being in a gale of light , after this black hole . |
| 21 | The three of us could go to seven o'clock Mass on Friday morning then it would be like being at Nuptial Mass for her . ’ |
| 22 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 23 | It would be like being a student . |
| 24 | It will be like being with somebody else . |
| 25 | ‘ Being president of Newcastle United , ’ he observed to top table neighbour Stan Seymour , ‘ must be like being a Christian Scientist with appendicitis . ’ |
| 26 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 27 | Higueras warned Jim , ‘ Once a player is as close as you are to being number one in the world , the adjustments should be fractional in your game . |
| 28 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |
| 29 | Close as they are to being sold , electricity and water will be largely unaffected by this week 's change . |
| 30 | We certainly were like being in the army more or less , and er there was the head servants and erm the under servants , you know ? |