Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] of [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe because my days of being needed are nearly over . ’ |
| 2 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 3 | She realised , as she had mentioned to Laura , she was quite as guilty as her superiors of being less than open with the police . |
| 4 | Victims have been openly accused by their husbands of being ‘ Chetnik whores ’ . |
| 5 | But they were more interested in telling Mo about their experiences of being out of work . |
| 6 | For most women , the most powerful source of their tears lies in their relationship with men , and particularly their experiences of being abandoned . |
| 7 | Indeed , so marked was the Judaic orientation of the Celtic Church that it is on record as having been explicitly accused of Judaism , and its adherents of being Jews . |
| 8 | With a successful press conference behind him , he felt a new confidence in his ability to handle Marjorie , even though she was clearly well launched into one of her periods of being thoroughly tiresome . |
| 9 | A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed ! |
| 10 | Although Helen is aware that her feelings of being to blame are irrational and unjustified , sadly , they are not easy to rid herself of . |
| 11 | The preceding discussion reaches the conclusion that neither of the dominant theories of contract achieves its aims of being an exposition of liberal philosophy . |
| 12 | She forgot about her own precarious position , her fears of being thrown out , of being caught again by Samson or Garty . |
| 13 | Nothing is done to prevent the snake from eating a frog : each frog merely does what it can to reduce its chances of being the unlucky one . |
| 14 | Any property of an organism that reduces its chances of being taken by a predator will be favoured by natural selection , as it will increase the organism 's chance of survival . |
| 15 | However , whilst it is impossible to guarantee that a business 's terms will be incorporated into all its contracts , if a business takes care to adopt proper contract formation procedures , it can maximise the chances of its terms being incorporated into its contracts , and therefore its chances of being able to rely on those terms should any dispute arise . |
| 16 | She watched him search helplessly for a reply , the hysteria rising within her that he might have ruined her chances of being accepted by her family . |
| 17 | Their chances of being chairmen of Ford or General Motors are pretty slim too ; non-existent ( on past experience ) if they are a British manager at an American ‘ transplant ’ in Britain . |
| 18 | Deer ruin their chances of being awesome beasts , providing a rare and special experience to those who spot them , by standing in massive herds all along the verge of the A9 looking glum , and grouse lose points for frightening you half to death by crashing out of the heather from under your feet screeching like banshees . |
| 19 | Some countries have a bad reputation for crime and expatriates are naturally concerned about their chances of being mugged or having their home burgled . |
| 20 | Accordingly they may marry early and begin a family quickly ; that will increase their chances of being allocated a council house through the points system , even though it reduces their chances of buying or renting privately ( Ineichen 1979a ) . |
| 21 | We all know therefore that everyone tries to get their own beliefs by methods that will maximise their chances of being true : like Pooh getting his belief about what 's in his honey pot by tasting it . |
| 22 | Response to pleas for volunteers to carry the wounded was usually poor , and the troops at Verdun came to recognise that their chances of being picked up , let alone brought to medical succour were extremely slim . |
| 23 | The plain fact is that if most 16 year olds turn down full-time employment they merely reduce their chances of being in jobs two years on . ’ |
| 24 | Cardinal Wolsey , like Anne Boleyn , was thus supposed to have bewitched Henry VIII , and Oliver Cromwell was accused by his enemies of being in league with the devil on the eve of the battle of Worcester which he won . |
| 25 | A middle-aged man recalled his feelings of being ‘ the only 12-year-old queer in Great Britain ’ and a girl confided a desire to snog her best friend . |
| 26 | Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself . |
| 27 | While the splendid John Devereux improved his chances of being named in today 's Great Britain touring squad to Australia , with a fine display from his old rugby union position of centre , they were without too many of their creative players to open a hard-tackling defence which absorbed the pressure and were always on the lookout for the counter-attack . |
| 28 | In the cab , on the way home , he had chatted inconsequentially — about the coming spring , mutual acquaintances , his chances of being picked to play cricket for England in Australia that winter . |
| 29 | The Galway International winner has n't given up hope of bidding yet again for one of the few big Irish rallies to elude him but describes his chances of being on the start line on Good Friday as ‘ remote ’ . |
| 30 | After Tuesday 's goings on , he frankly did not give a Castlemaine XXXX for his chances of being called to the rostrum . |