Example sentences of "being [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Nicky Mariano , Forty Years with Berenson , 1966 ; Nigel Nicolson , Portrait of a Marriage , 1973 ; Iris Origo , Images and Shadows : Part of a Life , 1970 ; Geoffrey Scott , The Architecture of Humanism , 1914 , revised edn. 1924 , reprinted 1980 with foreword by D. Watkin ; M. Secrest , Being Bernard Berenson : a Biography , 1980 ; information from Scott 's friends . ] |
| 2 | He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly . |
| 3 | But I 'm wondering how to go on it being election day . |
| 4 | The issues raised by this point will loom large in Part Four , where the metaphor of people being part authors of their own moral world will be explained . |
| 5 | 1825 " The Presses of this meeting , as being part owner of the Steam Boat , declines allowing the assessment for the Steam Boat to be charged for this year . |
| 6 | I am worried that many students may convert to being part time rather than full time , simply because they can not afford to be full-time students . |
| 7 | With the team still taking new shape , Arsenal reached the Cup final for the first time in 1927 , their opponents being Cardiff City , one of the more successful sides of the decade . |
| 8 | The board master performs this service on a voluntary basis and the prerequisite of being board master is knowing the fishing thoroughly ; because he has to tell new guests where to go , how to get there , which path to take , which bog to avoid , where not to fall in — so he really must know what he is talking about . |
| 9 | And before long Leeds were in the final of the West Riding Cup , their opponents being Hull City . |
| 10 | She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What — the Cabinet being drug smugglers ? ’ |
| 12 | The second day 's play followed much the same pattern of the first , the difference being Humphreys Davies ' three set victory over Lisa Albano . |
| 13 | He was JP for West Sussex from 1640 until his death , and was elected MP for Midhurst in a by-election to the Long Parliament in 1645 , his fellow-MP being William Cawley the regicide [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | He was descended from a Northamptonshire farming family , his grandfather probably being William Wytt of Dene . |
| 15 | N E H I , that 's close to being N E I which is a big company in N E I Parsons . |
| 16 | Stoicism had declined , the last prominent exponent of its philosophy being Marcus Aurelius who ruled from 161 to 180 . |
| 17 | The conference was attended by 60 people ; over half the delegates being Napier University staff and the reminder being representatives from other Scottish HEI 's and community organisations . |
| 18 | Designed for superb everyday care and styling , Salon Formula contains natural ingredients and vitamins , the most important of these being avocado oil which is renowned for its gentle , moisturising properties . |
| 19 | Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two . |
| 20 | Being Hereford 's keeper though , is rather like being King Canute . |
| 21 | The hobby does have a down side , being King Cone can put a serious strain on one 's social life . |
| 22 | Transverse dunes seem to accompany areas of increased sand cover : basically they consist of wave-like forms normal to the dominant wind and are considerably smaller than the longitudinal dunes , normal dimensions quoted by Mabbutt being wave length 50–200 m ( 160–650 ft ) and height up to 10 m ( 33 ft ) . |
| 23 | Daily and festive worship in the temple is being observed.Most Hindus worship daily , in one of many possible ways . |
| 24 | A succession of delightful surprises comes into view as the journey proceeds , the gem being Badcall Bay and its seascape of a dozen off-shore islands and , beyond , the vast expanse of Eddrachillis Bay . |
| 25 | But desperate times call for desperate measures , and in response to post-Aids paranoia/homophobia , artists ( gay and non-gay ) have begun to use bodily fluids in their work , the best known being Andres Serrano , who , for a show a couple of years back , photographed his own ejaculations . |
| 26 | 7.1 Warranty re-convictions The Tenant warrants that prior to the execution of this Lease [ it ] has disclosed to the Landlord in writing any conviction judgment or finding of any court or tribunal relating to the Tenant ( or any director or other officer or major shareholder of the Tenant ) of such a nature as to be likely to affect the decision of any insurer or underwriter to grant or to continue insurance of any of the Insured Risks The landlord may wish to include this in order to protect its position resulting from insurance contracts being uberrimae fidei , with the resultant obligation to disclose to the insurers material facts within its actual or presumed knowledge . |
| 27 | 1887 saw the bankruptcy of Charles Ford , who presumably then owned Millbottom , the new owner being Edward Benjamin . |
| 28 | They will be found collected in the case of the Direct United States Cable Company v Anglo-American Telegraph Company , L R 2 App Cas 394 , the bay there in question being Conception Bay , which has a width at the mouth of rather more than 20 miles . |
| 29 | So far these are very far from being boom times . |
| 30 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |