Example sentences of "is [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager can manipulate some things to stave that off , but pop music is about being popular . |
| 2 | This is because they sing songs with titles like ‘ Love Girdle ’ , which , so the singer tells us , ‘ is about being in love with , well , a fat girl . ’ |
| 3 | A few weeks earlier that same candidate had drawn the member of parliament 's attention to ‘ one David Denholm an old worn out officer at Thorntonloch nigh Dunglass in East Lothian who is about being supperannuated ’ . |
| 4 | As Mr and Mrs Atkin from Newcastle , on their third Disney World visit , told me : ‘ Coming to Disney is about being in America . |
| 5 | ‘ Jean-Michel 's success is about being in touch with the market and adapting to suit it , which is what retailing is all about , ’ says an admiring Neil Prosser . |
| 6 | It is about outfoxing your opponent , about leading defenders into false positions … it is about being one step ahead' |
| 7 | It is about being one step ahead . ’ |
| 8 | this , this is about being in lines . |
| 9 | Obviously , it is in a ‘ plugger 's ’ interest to claim that it was his or her work which made a record into a hit , but if you employ a ‘ plugger ’ it is worth being sceptical when deciding what to believe . |
| 10 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 11 | It is worth being clear in your own mind about the possible usefulness of Blake 's grid . |
| 12 | It is through being able to see simultaneously both backwards as well as forwards , without the need to glance over his shoulder . |
| 13 | Another way is through being in contact with parents of young people to try to help them . |
| 14 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 15 | The one position he or she should avoid is of being a kind of co-conspirator with the politician against the legitimate interests of the audience and that , it has seemed to me lately , is an increasingly easy trap to fall into . |
| 16 | The danger now is of being lulled into a false sense of family security . |
| 17 | The earlier you discuss a potential or actual problem with the lender , the more chance there is of being able to arrange matters satisfactorily . |
| 18 | The most deeply spontaneous , the gut reaction , from every viewpoint except the destitute , or of a criminal ready to pay for the advantage of robbing by the risk of himself being robbed , or of the kind of anarchist who acclaims private theft as a blow to the oppressive institution of private property , is of being threatened . |
| 19 | The earlier you discuss a potential or actual problem with the lender , the more chance there is of being able to arrange matters satisfactorily . |
| 20 | But the impression Andrew has always given is of being married first and foremost to his work . " |
| 21 | ‘ The constant worry all my staff have is of being transferred . ’ |
| 22 | And that is despite being named among those who are the lowest paid in the country . |
| 23 | To read about her here is like being shown someone 's snaps or scrapbook — perhaps an underrated pleasure . |
| 24 | Flying in even light snow is like being in a fog , and unless you are up high and can manage to fly clear on instruments , you are liable to have real trouble . |
| 25 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 26 | It is like being part of the same company , but without the drawbacks . |
| 27 | Glasgow , 1990 is like being ‘ on the Continent ’ . |
| 28 | Being tied to the Deutschemark at present is like being Hector dragged round the walls of Troy . |
| 29 | It is like being attached to the free end of a rope ; a gentle pull at one end means a vicious kick at the other . |
| 30 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |