Example sentences of "of being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , nobody as yet knows how intentionality — the property that mental phenomena have of being about something other than themselves — or consciousness emerge from the operations of the brain . |
| 2 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 3 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 4 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |
| 5 | Ruth no longer had any feeling of being below the sea . |
| 6 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 7 | Minto airily spoke of being worth £1,000 and able to raise a further £2,000 as a mortgage , but this was not the case . |
| 8 | This image of being between worlds — suspended between earth and sky — is apt for Cocteau , who was trained as an acrobat and whose imagination was fabulous and other-worldly . |
| 9 | The business of being between inexperienced girl and experienced woman and the awful problem of the man . |
| 10 | It held that God is the Creator ex nihilo thus implying a divide rather than a continuum of being between man 's soul and God . |
| 11 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 12 | Besides the materialist assertion of the determinacy of being over consciousness this piece equates ‘ social being ’ with the ‘ mode of production ’ . |
| 13 | But every woman makes a choice about her appearance ; she is exercising the power of the Queen of Beauty , which is to express qualities of being through the physical medium . |
| 14 | Their near-simultaneity was coincidence , in the sense of being beyond all collusion and foreknowledge , though all were by graduates of Oxford engaged in teaching and over the age of thirty . |
| 15 | They have a dimension of being beyond the reach of rational formulation , and they often disconcert us by behaving quite differently in one novel , in one volume , from what the previous volume had led us to expect . |
| 16 | I remember a sensation of being above myself , certainly not in my body anyway . |
| 17 | And there 's wi wide er , spread unemployment and there 's the stress of being as that lady said , a single parent , erm , for women who work and have families they have their old conflict between what they 're doing , doing at home and what they 're doing at their work and who should have a priority . |
| 18 | Lamarck was eminent for his classification of invertebrates , and had in effect put the chain of being into motion , so that everything was moving slowly upwards , and creatures had not become extinct but had just changed , responding to their environment . |
| 19 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 20 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 21 | They explain that they have always fended for themselves because of being at work , but when it comes to going home the difficulties begin . |
| 22 | We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease . |
| 23 | We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease . |
| 24 | My batman , who is a positive Jeeves , is with me and , truly , I am far less aware of being at war than I was in England . |
| 25 | A recent visit to the Festival of Photoreportage was the first time that Tony had met other members of the group , ‘ Some of them I did n't know and for me that was the wondrous part of being at Perpignan . ’ |
| 26 | A system of retention ratios at least gives exporters part of the benefits due to them , since they are assured of most of their import needs , and can sell any surplus foreign exchange on the black market to other enterprises , who also benefit by being able to obtain foreign exchange at a price instead of being at the mercy of administrative decisions by bureaucrats . |
| 27 | Sport and recreation are an integral part of the experience of being at University , and lasting friendships are often made within both the social and sporting contexts . |
| 28 | There was a sense of importance , of being at the heart of things . |
| 29 | No 3225 Set by Watson Weeks Following the TV exposé of the horrors/miracle of being at the school founded by A S Neill , could we have a Speech Day address by the principal of Summerhill ; an explanation by a parent of why they have chosen it ; or a statement by a former pupil of the advantages gained by a Summerhill education . |
| 30 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |