Example sentences of "[noun sg] being [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In approaching these questions , he first argues that the criminal law has always been concerned with morals , or moral principles , and that these moral principles are , in this country , inextricably tied to religion — ‘ the moral standards generally accepted in western civilisation being those belonging to Christianity ’ . |
| 2 | As many as 40 local councils stood to lose up to £100 million from the collapse of BCCI , the largest likely loss being that of the Western Isles which had £23 million invested in the bank . |
| 3 | All went well until 1985 , when museum purchase grants were frozen at the level at which they have remained , the reasoning being that for anything really important , they could go to the NHMF . |
| 4 | His reasoning being that when the clarion call is sounded on Resurrection Day and the whole world is turned upside down , he would be the first one out and standing on his feet . |
| 5 | The church is in Romanesque style , but in this case it is mock-Romanesque , completion being many years after the style had ceased to be used . |
| 6 | My mother and aunt used to have two small glasses apiece , the result being that poor dad was left to get supper . |
| 7 | Increasingly it appears that the cabinet operates through a network of committees , the result being that ministers may be bound by decisions in which they have had little more than nominal participation . |
| 8 | It is understandable that a civil servant takes longer to negotiate or work out a solution over which he is unenthusiastic , the result being that by the time the work is complete , there is a new minister who is more ready to see the weaknesses of this line of action . |
| 9 | As it was , she became more and more incensed as she tried to break out of his limpet-like hold , the result being that when she did manage to break free she was so outraged — just because she was a female contracts officer , the boss 's son thought he could do as he liked with her — that she verbally tore into him . |
| 10 | The motion did , however , contain a number of conditions for membership , the principal such condition being that Sweden should be allowed to maintain its traditional policy of neutrality . |
| 11 | Felt-tips or fibre-tipped pens that give a strong , dark line are useful for children in the first classes , the disadvantage being that pressure can cause the tips to splay or split . |
| 12 | Lucy was only half listening to their conversation , the main thought in her own mind being that Stella would be home today . |
| 13 | Being a child when the state was publicly engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my particular circumstances , its central benefit being that , unlike my mother , the state asked for nothing in return . |
| 14 | The contention being that , as regards companies , the statute can not have been intended to apply to them if they are non-resident , one asks immediately — why not ? |
| 15 | Along with the development of the idea of the " expert " there has been a trend towards the role of the expert being that of a dispute resolver . |
| 16 | My philosophy being that members who attended the meetings or functions which I attended will know I was there . |
| 17 | The reality has been that our core funding , like that of so many other bodies , has been progressively reduced , by City Hall in our case , and we are constantly threatened with having our funding removed entirely , the premise being that BAT will pick up the bill . |
| 18 | From the start , as in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky is projecting a theoretical murderer , the difference being that Raskolnikov was an ex-student , only potentially an eternal student , because in the event he got pulled back out of theory into living life . |
| 19 | You use it just like a dumb terminal , the difference being that instead of a plain text screen , it provides a mouse-and-windows interface . |
| 20 | Both of them were professionals , the only difference being that Trent was on the side of the law . |
| 21 | Invoice Discounting offers many of the advantages of Factoring , the main difference being that Barclays does not provide sales ledger administration , credit management , or debt collection , which remain your responsibility . |
| 22 | The main difference being that , in this case , the solutions of Ernst 's equation may themselves either be metric functions or potentials for those functions as described in Section 12.4 . |
| 23 | Universal and human consciousness are one and the same in nature , the only difference being that individual consciousness is experienced as limited or restricted in its operation within its physical vehicle . |
| 24 | The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain . |
| 25 | The difference being that when Michael was like this he was liable to explode into a raging temper at any moment . |
| 26 | Some writers appear still to feel that the criterion remains one of recognition by the government of this country , the difference being that , whereas before 1980 the government would say expressly whether it recognised the foreign government , now it is to be left to be ascertained as a matter of inference : see Professor J. Crawford ‘ Decisions of British Courts during 1985–86 involving questions of Public or Private International Law ’ ( 1986 ) 57 B.Y . |
| 27 | The difference being that Katherine was doing it all in the name of another who was not her husband , but her father . |
| 28 | As Anderson ( 1983 ) has pointed out , marital breakdown rates in the nineteenth century were probably not very different from those found today , the difference being that divorce rather than death is now the main cause of lone parenthood . |
| 29 | In that time , its geography had changed little , the only difference being that more and more houses had squeezed themselves on to the mound of detritus that had built up over generations to form the hill on which the city squatted , above the highest level of flood the river could attain . |
| 30 | The difference being that Laing was alive and living in London and Inner Space , while Reich had killed himself fifteen years before in the United States . |