Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked of all we would do when he was strong enough , and I put everything else out of mind and concentrated on being positive and cheerful myself , which was not always easy but I was determined to behave normally and to treat him as a convalescent and not as a sick man . |
| 2 | Several other methods came to light and died through being impractical until a major step was taken by a Dublin photographer John Joly in 1893 . |
| 3 | Several other methods came to light and died through being impractical until a manor step was taken by a Dublin photographer John Joly in 1893 . |
| 4 | Although , when the three friends reunite in 1959 after thirteen years , they have not achieved everything they hoped for as adolescents , we are left at the end of the play with a feeling of hope — not the kind of false hope prescribed by Soviet censors but the hope that comes from being young and strong and having lived through difficult times . |
| 5 | Sporting types will find tennis , mini golf , horse riding and windsurfing all available , and there are a number of small shale beaches where you can bake in the sun and dream about being energetic tomorrow . |
| 6 | Is it because you are expected to express good wishes or thanks , or because you are old and wise and expected to give advice , or because you are an extrovert and known for being humorous , because you are closely related to the other members of the family , or because you are a friend who has known the bride and groom for many years ? |
| 7 | But he continued to serve her mother , being partly responsible for the tragedy of the duchess 's lady-in-waiting , Lady Flora Hastings [ q.v. ] , who died of a tumour while suspected of being pregnant by Conroy . |
| 8 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 9 | Is he giving them advice , along the lines that he described , to ensure that they manage to implement the sensible planning that comes from being able to run their own affairs , as they obviously wish to do ? |
| 10 | So unambiguously marked are these , that they draw attention away from other features of his — his odd stock of knowledge and his quiet eagerness to increase it — his unassuming inclination for the arts , and particularly music something different from the practical awareness that comes from being married to a singer — his compassion — his steadfastness . |
| 11 | There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless , and persevering , and being turned down that was different from simply being jobless . |