Example sentences of "[prep] [being] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kano State Radio is the mouthpiece of the government of Governor Abubakar Rimi , which is a very different thing from being a PRP radio station ; indeed , the PRP , led by the late Aminu Kano , had the doubtful distinction of being without any mass media outlet at all during most of the period between the 1979 and 1983 elections . |
| 2 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 3 | The fact that her husband had fitted an electric light inside the cupboard made no difference at all ; it was the thought of being within that cramped space — even with the door to the hall left open — that Sylvia could not bear . |
| 4 | Depth of sleep Many parents say that they think their child wets the bed because of being in such deep sleep . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume — it 's like being in some surreal painting . ’ |
| 6 | It came into being following some wider discussions held in 1982 between Age Concern England and the Department of Psychiatry at Guy 's Hospital about the community services provided for dementia sufferers . |
| 7 | In Britain , the character of being a mobilizer or a reconciler is not related to being in any one party or being in opposition or government . |
| 8 | Whatever the symbolic advantages of gender neutrality in the law of rape , in practice , whilst the structure of sexual offences remains essentially the same , the effect of such an innovation could conceivably be detrimental to male victims without being of any real assistance to female complainants . |