Example sentences of "[conj] being [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at each other while having dinner or being at a party , then go home , go to bed and talk . |
| 2 | She had discovered that it was n't a proper job ( as she called it to herself ) since none of them was paid for going there or being on the rota . |
| 3 | ‘ I can truthfully say that being with the recent squad has been like being with a family . |
| 4 | There is a genuine fear that being on the periphery of Europe will be an obstacle to trading with out partners within the community . |
| 5 | We all reckon that being as the prize for lowest weight was a year on the Cambridge Diet he fished without any bait at all on the hook . |
| 6 | Some people found that being in a crowd aggravated tinnitus . |
| 7 | That author presumably thinks that being in a human body is not essential to . |
| 8 | There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ . |
| 9 | Women are under more ideological pressure to maintain a perfect home in owner-occupied property , where standards are seen to be the individual responsibility of the owners , rather than being outside a tenant 's control as in rented property , although of course women in all forms of accommodation are subjected to these pressures . |
| 10 | I loved being out on the sea — it felt much more like ‘ real ’ sailing than being on a lake . |
| 11 | There 's nothing worse than being on the beach half way through a game when the batteries pack up . ’ |
| 12 | But I guess , one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association , rather than being at the peak of one . |
| 13 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 14 | Despite all claims to the contrary , English , rather than being at the core of the humanities , has become " merely one subject among others . " |
| 15 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 16 | onto the thing , so you know , it was like well it 's better than being at the telly . |
| 17 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 18 | I think it was safer than being among the lorries . |
| 19 | The cost of rehabilitating a patient after a heart attack is somewhat less than being in a hospital bed for a third of a day , so I do not think that we are denting the NHS 's resources by providing this for everybody . |
| 20 | And she would be pregnant now , of course , no doubt about it , which was better than being in a convict ship bound for Australia , where somebody would have made her pregnant in any case . |
| 21 | ‘ It was better even than being in a novel — this being , this fairly wallowing in a libretto . ’ |
| 22 | There 's nothing worse than being in a foul temper and knowing that it 's only you , you 've got to blame for it . |
| 23 | It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line . |
| 24 | Better than being in the house . |
| 25 | One act or speech is as arbitrary as another , being in the wrong car with the wrong man is in no way stranger than being in the wrong country in the wrong job . |
| 26 | Anything was better than being in the hotel bedroom . |
| 27 | It was worse than being in the CID room with its battered furniture and wire baskets and overcrowded notice boards . |
| 28 | Getting up and being at the shop on time is the teenager 's own responsibility and part of the cost to be reckoned with . |
| 29 | Several special trains of American frozen meat arrived every week , leaving Southampton at 6 p.m. , arriving at Nine Elms at 10 p.m. , and being at the market by midnight . |
| 30 | They were mad about boats and being on the water and some of their techniques are still in use today . |