Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remain convinced that only lesbians and divorcees insist on being addressed in this manner . |
| 2 | The Mesquite main strip aspires to being Las Vegas without anything like the money or the reputation . |
| 3 | One obvious element was his willingness to work at being a good lord . |
| 4 | One obvious element was his willingness to work at being a good lord . |
| 5 | There has been a revolution in the marketing of computer products and the winner looks like being the consumer . |
| 6 | THE dinosaur film epic Jurassic Park looks like being a runaway success judging by the reaction of audiences who packed cinemas in New York last night for the first showing of the film . |
| 7 | So , yes , you should , just for five minutes forget about being a policeman and be a human being . |
| 8 | The half-back pairing looks like being Andy Hunter and Paul Campbell . |
| 9 | The biggest danger to New Level looks like being Tom Robinson 's Just Right Kyle , which races from trap two . |
| 10 | The firms ' budget looks like being 12 or 13 times bigger than that of its European imitators . |
| 11 | Each aircraft will be acting as an extra set of eyes for the other in an attempt to see before being seen . |
| 12 | Every year more than 10,000 badgers are dug from their homes throughout the country and are battered with spades or have their jaws and legs broken before being put into baiting pits . |
| 13 | The adolescent penis insists on being in a state of almost constant erection , regardless of the appropriateness of the situation . |
| 14 | As Macdonald points out , some subjects change from being viewed as ‘ masculine ’ to being viewed as ‘ feminine ’ , and vice versa ; she argues that this is partly the result of ‘ pressures exerted on the school and universities by the changing pattern of employment of men and women in the labour force ’ . |
| 15 | Lawyers representing the 51 who died when the Marchioness pleasure boat sank after being in collision with a dredger on the Thames , have given the owners of the vessels until tomorrow evening to agree to pay full compensation - estimated at between £6m and £7m . |
| 16 | Five officers needed hospital treatment for head injuries , including one female officer who needed nine stitches to a mouth wound after being kicked . |
| 17 | CHRIS Waddle looks like being out of Wednesday 's side for three weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a load of bullshit ! ’ the culprit shouted before being strong-armed out of the door . |
| 19 | Yellow looks like being this year 's colour — the banana does not seem to be able to stay out of the headlines . |
| 20 | Then the pulp was crushed to extract the juice , and the liquid was left for up to three months to ferment before being transferred to casks for maturing . |
| 21 | Much of the expertise of a museum curator or an archaeologist lies in being able to offer a reasonably accurate identification of an object just on the basis of looking at it and handling it . |
| 22 | Constant work : Andrew 's roles range from being in Brookside to Macbeth |
| 23 | After some lengthy discussion by some of our leading lights , plans were given substance and the Revenue Cutter Association came into being . |
| 24 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 25 | A vast new illegal industry came into being to cater for the continuing thirst of the nation . |
| 26 | After one year working with the company , as part of Strathclyde University 's Teaching Company Associate Scheme , Rhona Johnstone transferred from being on the staff of the University to join the Marketing Department and continue her job in market research . |
| 27 | In the first half of 1858 gentry committees like those which the Nazimov Rescript set up in the north-western provinces came into being throughout the European part of the empire . |
| 28 | Three main schools of fighting came into being : ‘ naha-te ’ , ‘ tomari-te ’ and ‘ shuri-te ’ , named after the towns on Okinawa that nurtured them . |
| 29 | This instrument benefits from being highly portable and has considerable international potential . |
| 30 | For this reason the accelerationist hypothesis stands accused of being based on irrational behaviour , for rational agents should not make persistent mistakes . |