Example sentences of "being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typical social representation is said to have originated from an abstract , technical concept : ‘ Social representations generally come into being during transformations of this kind , whether by an intervention of the mass media or by the act of individuals ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 964 ) . |
| 2 | He took 155 wickets for England at an average of 26.16 , his best series being during the MCC tour of Australia in 1924–5 when he took 38 wickets , at that time a record for England versus Australia . |
| 3 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 4 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 5 | Mr Loveitt wants to hear what you have to tell about being aboard the Princess . ’ |
| 6 | The pilots were dismayed , for they had no kit with them , all being aboard ship with the ground party , bound for Egypt . |
| 7 | Well I remember being aboard the Brandon , because Uncle John came and stayed with us at the cliff and er , er father was at sea somewhere but he came and stayed with us and then he now went down into er to see his captain cos they were sailing on on the tide the next day . |
| 8 | We felt we were halfway back to civilian life , being off the camp and in the middle of an interesting town . |
| 9 | After being off work ( I worked as a driving instructor and sitting was the worst position to be in ) for six weeks the pain was no better , if anything it was worse . |
| 10 | ‘ He was the best horse I 've trained and was only just getting going again after being off the track for nearly a year . ’ |
| 11 | Laburnum , just beaten at the last Kempton meeting after being off the course since April , was the big weekend gamble yesterday . |
| 12 | Being off duty I was forbidden near Marcus in or out of uniform . |
| 13 | Initially conceived to capitalise on Time Out being off the streets , it was clearly a mistake to sit back and allow Time Out to return first . |
| 14 | Certainly her being off the scene was handy for Steenie . |
| 15 | Wilko spoke a lot about the ‘ monkey being off our backs now — people will have to start thinking about something else to say … ’ . |
| 16 | But again , there must be a loss of income , because again , there 's the rule , that you ca n't be better off by being off work sick . |
| 17 | Okay , so they 've other P H I benefit , that must come off of the equation , because we , otherwise we 'll be paying it as well as another insurance company , which mean he 'll be better off financially , by being off work sick , yes . |
| 18 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 19 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 20 | You now have to get , in er er , because there was a sort of erm gradation from being off ill , which was n't familiar , to being off long term sick which you ca n't have any experience of to erm early retirement on health grounds and you just ca n't have any experience of that either erm to being retired and it 's , i i it 's , it 's quite interesting |
| 21 | He 's not as All the programmes are changed this morning , the youngsters being off school and so instead of the news it 's all these youngster 's programmes . |
| 22 | If Raskolnikov was to have mounted an assault of something like Grand Inquisitor proportions , if he was to have expatiated on the whole God business not being worth the pain of one misused child , then the time was n't ripe ; we must wait for Ivan Karamazov . |
| 23 | Minto airily spoke of being worth £1,000 and able to raise a further £2,000 as a mortgage , but this was not the case . |
| 24 | Weapons and armour , measured in the equivalent of cows , have been quoted as being worth as much as : |
| 25 | It 's this version which is now recognised as the rarest Dylan record in the world and valued in Neal Umpred 's Goldmine Price Guide To Collectible Record Albums as being worth $10,000 , though a bid of over $12,000 eventually secured a deal . |
| 26 | The package is so complicated that it could , in fact , be described as being worth almost anything between zero and $13 billion , depending on definitions . |
| 27 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 28 | Industry encroached , roads ribboned , and the previously attractive landscape became dreary wasteland as farmers abandoned the small cut-off parcels of arable land as no longer being worth the effort . |
| 29 | Overall the Calculator accessory is the only one that comes close to being worth its price , the others are either too basic or liable to crash to be considered seriously . |
| 30 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |