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 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It 's not always easy being in a band . ’ |
| 24 | Industry encroached , roads ribboned , and the previously attractive landscape became dreary wasteland as farmers abandoned the small cut-off parcels of arable land as no longer being worth the effort . |
| 25 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 26 | In this test the sample is subjected to a periodic load ( or displacement ) , and a complex modulus is found which , for linear viscoelasticity , relates the stress — to the strain , these no longer being in phase with each other as they are for elastic materials . |
| 27 | She hated this feeling of helplessness , of no longer being in control of her own life . |
| 28 | Without exactly being in the ‘ stop — go ’ cycle of Selwyn Lloyd or the ‘ hard slog ’ of Roy Jenkins in years gone by , Britain 's posture in the later Thatcher period still seemed to reflect the historic structural weakness of former years . |
| 29 | The comfortable assumption that pupils would normally being with them to school the language which would be the medium of their education was , rather suddenly , no longer tenable . |
| 30 | Not normally being in the business of art detection it was still a pleasure to help . |