Example sentences of "[det] being of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This area is the Coulin Forest , bounded by roads that give it detachment from other high ground , its mountains forming a compact group but individually having distinction of character and outline , some being of arresting appearance . |
| 2 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 3 | The civil year was divided into three conventional ‘ seasons ’ — called time of inundation , sowing time , and harvest time — and each of them was divided into four months , these being of course conventional too and not connected with the moon . |
| 4 | Of the sixty-mile length of the glen , two-thirds was already covered by the three lochs , these being of sufficient depth to permit the passage of small ships , and to join them together with access from Loch Linnhe and the Moray Firth , twenty-two miles of cuttings were needed , together with a system of locks to raise the canal from sea level to the slightly higher level of the glen at both ends with more at Fort Augustus . |
| 5 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 6 | That being of a man . |
| 7 | The last time that a scolds ' cage is recorded as being in use was when two Looe ladies , Hannah Wit and Bessy Niles , both being of ‘ fluent tongue ’ and having , over some dispute ‘ exerted their oratory on each other ’ , at last thought it prudent to leave the matter in dispute to be settled by the mayor . |
| 8 | Bacteria and blue-green algae are chemically very similar , both being of the procaryotic kind , and are often known as cyanobacteria . |
| 9 | In the first 18 cases the lower third of the rectum was retained and an extensive anal mucosectomy was performed with a sutured pouch ( most being of the double limb J variety ) at the dentate line . |