Example sentences of "[subord] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On the contrary , while we are asleep our consciousness seems to happen to us , rather than being under our control . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | There 's nothing worse than being on the beach half way through a game when the batteries pack up . ’ |
| 7 | I loved being out on the sea — it felt much more like ‘ real ’ sailing than being on a lake . |
| 8 | As you get older , I think you learn that an afternoon playing with your daughter ( he has one by each marriage ) , or three hours reading , feeds the soul in a more real way than being on TV . ’ |
| 9 | It 's got ta be better than being on dole , in n it . |
| 10 | It 's worse than being on Griffin Close . |
| 11 | But I guess , one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association , rather than being at the peak of one . |
| 12 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 13 | Despite all claims to the contrary , English , rather than being at the core of the humanities , has become " merely one subject among others . " |
| 14 | But if and when you do want something else , going to college when you are older and when you positively want to go , can be a very different and more satisfying experience than being at school . |
| 15 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 16 | onto the thing , so you know , it was like well it 's better than being at the telly . |
| 17 | If , as Brown and Harris ( 1978 ) suggested , early loss acts as a vulnerability factor , rather than being of aetiological significance in its own right , then the relationship between loss and depression would be expected to be strongest in the presence of a psychosocial stressor . |
| 18 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 19 | Please do not leave the board mounted OS map on the wall , prop it down by table between cushions — sounds dotty but I hope it will keep it dryer rather than being against damp wall . |
| 20 | I think it was safer than being among the lorries . |
| 21 | It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line . |
| 22 | Better than being in the house . |
| 23 | One act or speech is as arbitrary as another , being in the wrong car with the wrong man is in no way stranger than being in the wrong country in the wrong job . |
| 24 | The cost of rehabilitating a patient after a heart attack is somewhat less than being in a hospital bed for a third of a day , so I do not think that we are denting the NHS 's resources by providing this for everybody . |
| 25 | Anything was better than being in the hotel bedroom . |
| 26 | It was worse than being in the CID room with its battered furniture and wire baskets and overcrowded notice boards . |
| 27 | And she would be pregnant now , of course , no doubt about it , which was better than being in a convict ship bound for Australia , where somebody would have made her pregnant in any case . |
| 28 | ‘ It was better even than being in a novel — this being , this fairly wallowing in a libretto . ’ |
| 29 | Better than being in bed than that dirty |
| 30 | There 's nothing worse than being in a foul temper and knowing that it 's only you , you 've got to blame for it . |