Example sentences of "being [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lower portion was originally a slaughterhouse and quoted as being 17th Century . |
| 2 | Losing to the competition is being second best . |
| 3 | Boivin/Hoyer were leading Andriev/Haralambie , clear of the rest of the field , the Trains being 7th at the head of the third group at this stage . |
| 4 | Odd-Knut was ahead of us , so that nothing would stop him being first away . |
| 5 | Those circumstances are strictly defined as being first , where confidential information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended , and secondly where exempt information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended . |
| 6 | The carriage doors were all made so as to be interchangeable , the doors being first of all pressed together in a compressed-air jig , and then panelled up . |
| 7 | These castings-on involved the whole lost-wax process , the missing parts being first modelled in position in wax , the whole enveloped in clay and metal run in to replace the wax . |
| 8 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear — do n't allow his obsession for everything being first class at the Wilderness get under your skin . |
| 11 | The newspaper spoke of hidden station security cameras , faxed photographs , network identification computers , instant Press access to newsworthy material and the Edinburgh Mercury always being first with the news . |
| 12 | In a gloom at being at school in the first place and being next to Heather in the second , I push my hands into my jeans pocket — we are n't supposed to wear jeans at school — and discover some chewing gum , antique but welcome . |
| 13 | So that 's why IBM Corp was ready to get rid of MAPICS , one of its very few ostensibly successful software applications : Marcam Corp signalled in a conference call on Thursday night that analysts for now should not expect the product line from IBM to add to Marcam 's earnings in fiscal 1994 ; it indicated that both this year and for the time being next year their guidance is no positive impact on earnings from the MAPICS acquisition , ’ Hambrecht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 14 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 15 | The seating plan had given me no view at all of my now-giggling pals , but the great bonus of being next to Patricia Hutchinson , and opposite the Principal , who is most gracious , and does n't miss a trick . |
| 16 | The inn is ‘ advertised ’ as being 14th Century , but the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments , ( Westmorland ) , 1936 , writes : ‘ Irregular plan , two parallel blocks joined by a cross wing ’ , giving the date as 16th Century and later . |