Example sentences of "[prep] being [prep] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Market growth ’ was replaced by Industry attractiveness — a term that in practice was used loosely , to refer to the attractiveness of being in that area of activity in which the SBU operated . |
| 2 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 3 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 4 | Mr.Groves had aspirations to become a missionary and was instrumental in getting Kitto a place in the Missionary College in Islington , London where he learnt printing with a view to being of some service in some foreign missionary institution . |
| 5 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 6 | She was thrilled with the suffragettes ' tenacity and the expression it gave to her feelings about being in some kind of sexual trap . |
| 7 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 8 | But the links were not consistent or sustained , in part perhaps because it was unclear what the general discussions could be expected to deliver for particular firms and structure plans , in particular , soon gained a reputation for being of little relevance for actual processes of development . |