Example sentences of "[prep] being [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 2 | Charlie might have quite enjoyed the lesson if Trentham had n't left the impression that none of them was worthy of being in the same regiment as himself . |
| 3 | Despite being on the same latitude as Stockholm and Churchill ( Canada ) it was a renowned stock-rearing area . |
| 4 | When it comes to pay and conditions at work we 're nowhere near being in the same class as our European counterparts . |
| 5 | They all come into being at the same time . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think our friendship has much to do with being in the same business . |
| 7 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |
| 8 | At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ . |
| 9 | Sure , there were specialist writers on individual sports who were of unimpeachable quality , but when it came to the Big Event , or the Big Interview , McIlvanney was the one whom we read with both pleasure and despair — emotions generated by the pride at being in the same trade as the main , and by the realization of his supremacy . |
| 10 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 11 | He was dangerous to her , a predator who threatened her nervous system merely by being in the same room . |
| 12 | It exists all the more by being in the same place as power . |