Example sentences of "opposed [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to invoke God 's name for what one chooses to do is no guarantee whatever that the thought , word or action really is God 's will , or is creative and positive as opposed to being destructive and negative . |
| 2 | " … a guide for the medical practitioners of both tropical and temperate regions to the origins and diagnosis of infections that are tropical as opposed to being cosmopolitan , and of great value for training and teaching because it reproduces much better and more comprehensively than is possible with ordinary textbooks the appearance of specimens that will be examined … has been prepared with great care and deserves to remain one of the standard texts in the subject for many years . " |
| 3 | A lining not only protects the curtain fabric from sunlight but when sewn in as opposed to being detachable , it also improves the hang of the curtains . |
| 4 | One problem with this is that , up until the break-up of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s , the postwar period was characterized by a world of fixed exchange rates , which suggests that rates of inflation should converge , as opposed to being different under different regimes , if fixed parities are to be maintained . |
| 5 | ( Note , however , that ‘ better ’ covers less bad , or being good as opposed to being bad , as well as degree of goodness . ) |