Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [being] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make no apologies for concentrating on issues which in environmental terms could be considered as being relatively minor compared with some of the major problems facing us today . |
| 2 | Another important source of secondary danger clues came from the parents ' life histories : for example , parents who had certain ‘ personality traits ’ , had been abused or ‘ in care ’ themselves as children , had been in regular ‘ trouble ’ as children or/and as adults , were seen as being more likely to harm their children . |
| 3 | ‘ Meaning ’ theists do not claim that on the basis of some special gift from God , ‘ faith ’ or ‘ grace ’ or ‘ revelation ’ , they are able to be assured that God exists whilst being quite unable to communicate the grounds of their assurance to others who lack this divine gift . |
| 4 | In cartoon form they can very often clarify points , focusing upon topics that might otherwise be hurriedly overlooked as being too difficult to comprehend . |
| 5 | The use of Net Theory , often called ‘ Petri nets ’ after its initiator C A Petri ( Introduction to Net Theory — Brauer 1980 ) was considered , but discarded as being too specialised to meet one of the research project aims , ie to produce an enquiry method that could be used by practitioners with the minimum of training . |
| 6 | The completed version of this famous composition belongs to the National Gallery of Victoria , Australia , and is now regarded as being too fragile to travel . |
| 7 | This passage forcibly expressed Bukharin 's concern that , given the conditions then prevailing , the ‘ plan ’ should not be regarded as being actually able to control all the elements that had to be taken into account . |