Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the priestess — for that is what she was — began to weave a web while talking about her reasons for being at Greenham . |
| 2 | She composed herself and outlined briefly her reasons for being on the island and Fernando listened , occasionally nodding . |
| 3 | Now I would see as one of the erm powerful reasons for being in the leading position that if we are in the leading position , and we know that the right solution from a technical , and probably from an overall cost point of view is the sixteen double O three , or a six eight O seven , come to that , and we know it far enough ahead , |
| 4 | This should be an excellent opportunity for being with and joining friends for a relaxing evening . |
| 5 | They have a simply-furnished home , a Volvo estate car and a loathing for being in the limelight . |
| 6 | Perhaps knowing the likely outcome , New Scientist 's editor made a pathetic excuse about being in Canada at the time and dropped one of his old colleagues into — and swiftly out of — the balloon . |
| 7 | You can certainly do group suggestive therapy and here we touch on another point that erm Joy reminds us of and Freud makes quite a bit on the book the parallel between being in a group and being hypnotized , because the , the , the role of the hypnotist is to take over completely |
| 8 | While in command of Venturous I missed out on a lot of the big drug operations through being in the north of Scotland , but I always enjoyed working as part of a team with the other cutters or any of the shore units . |
| 9 | He will cease to be in charge where some intervening act occurs to remove the responsibility for being in charge from him . |
| 10 | The contrast between being in the lady 's charitable care and now in the officious hands of the workhouse staff is an important dynamic . |
| 11 | PAUL LINEHAM has a story about being at home in Cork at Christmas and having to keep the band 's first two EPs by the side of his bed , so scared was he that the previous three months had been nothing more than a ‘ fierce dream ’ . |
| 12 | This is a very short story about being in the women 's movement every day of your life . |
| 13 | He quarrelled with Rousseau after being on intimate terms with him , but then everybody did . |
| 14 | The lighting engineer boosts his £15,000 basic pay with bonuses for being on call at Newcastle upon Tyne all through the night . |
| 15 | In the latter case , of course , the sole criterion for being in the right is that of being opposed to the protagonist most closely identified with the parental authority — a very easy requirement to fulfil as the following true , but rather ludicrous , example shows . |
| 16 | Worthy of review for being by something called the Disco Universe Orchestra ( I want to join ) and for bearing the wise slogan LOUD AND WOBBLY MUSIC FOR THE '90Ss . |
| 17 | I find it easier to move my legs after being in here . |
| 18 | Take the fact , for example , that a quiet residential road is one of the most dangerous since the driver has a perception of being in a wide , open space and feels he is driving slower than he actually is . |
| 19 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 20 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
| 21 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 24 | The fear of being on one 's own applies beyond childhood , and for good reasons . |
| 25 | Still , he was not arrested or forced to flee , and could attend the ‘ Merciless Parliament ’ in February 1388 without fear of being amongst those indicted . |
| 26 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 27 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 28 | The tension of being in his company had to be getting to her . |
| 29 | I said I had no intention of being within a couple of light years of the Mimosa when Plod and the SWAT team burst in . |
| 30 | Perhaps that is the luxury of being on the pay-roll of a monopoly subsidised by the Government ? |