Example sentences of "[adv] of [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 2 | It could not of been easy |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a question not of being racialist but of being realistic ? |
| 4 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 5 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 6 | Why , Edward wondered , did Brackenbury speak yesterday of being off-duty on Thursday when he must already have been on the point of resigning his post ? |
| 7 | Could n't possibly of been real ! |
| 8 | Although one can speak also of being aware of the value of something , it will be essential to confine our usage to awareness of the existing , of persons , things , events . |
| 9 | What put the top hat on it was , when we came back , Debbie sat on the sofa and cried ‘ Mum , I 'm so fed up of being amnesic ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh aye , I would say she was popular : anybody they can get a laugh out of is popular with thick headed rookies … |
| 11 | Gordon Beamish was a man who made a fetish out of being lynx-eyed . |
| 12 | But Mr Ishihara has made a career out of being shocking , and he has a good motive . |
| 13 | Well you got quite a lot out of being able to evaluate . |
| 14 | The unpredictability of being on duty , the anxiety arising out of being unsure whether anything substantial is going to happen and being in a constant state of readiness in case it does , is one of the stresses associated with duty periods and referral and investigative work generally . |
| 15 | ‘ You certainly live in a splendid spot , ’ Leith struggled up out of being conscience-stricken to remark . |
| 16 | Who upset you so much that you are afraid now of being beautiful in case you get hurt again ? ’ |
| 17 | But participant observation you stand the best chance really of being able to check the accuracy of what , th they 're telling you in terms of behaviour and wha , and what people say , and what different people say in those situations over the , so you know . |
| 18 | so he need n't of been right you see , he could of , he oh dear |
| 19 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 20 | Rather than because if you settle , if you , you let the , the joints settle , instead of being nice and smooth , they get all rough and the other bones knit in |
| 21 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 22 | But no doubt some of the original Hooligans — ‘ instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried ’ as Baden-Powell had somewhat indelicately described the goal of reclamation — were buried alongside them , remembered only in the writings and memoirs of youth workers which act as their tombstones . |
| 23 | Though , in Travis 's case , instead of being horror-struck , he seemed genuinely pleased to see his cousin . |
| 24 | Benefits of the new system are that orders are processed quicker , improving cashflow ; company stock figures are up to date and correct , instead of being hypothetical ; surplus stock is being used up ; a system has been created where there was no system , and the scheme has boosted customer satisfaction . |
| 25 | ‘ But instead of being delighted with the result he complained to us about the beer . |
| 26 | Patiently Rain concentrated on the windows , instead of being alert to every sound . |
| 27 | Some polymers , instead of being uniform chains of one small molecule like ethylene , are chains of two or more different kinds of small molecule . |
| 28 | Instead of being critical , adversarial or even sceptical , the media should bow down to the needs of the country so as to encourage development across all sectors . |
| 29 | Instead of being flat , |
| 30 | Instead of being melancholic , withdrawn and dejected , the individual , for no apparent reason , begins to show the opposite symptoms and becomes instead exuberantly outward-going , supremely confident and wildly excited . |