Example sentences of "being of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being of a piece with classical theories , computational theories share with early modern ones the nominalism that made them oblivious of what was important in the classical tradition : namely the irreducibility of thought and universals . |
| 2 | Each reflects something of the period and quality of the music , the period being of the time when written by the composer or when presented as a ballet and the quality being that inspired in the choreographer by the composer . |
| 3 | But — of course — being of a frugal mind , saving the pot before finally flinging the geranium . |
| 4 | Every change he has advocated has always struck him as being of instant urgency . |
| 5 | ‘ If we believe the project is important for the well being of the economy then the money will be found . |
| 6 | However , there are also advantages in being of this gender . |
| 7 | For others it is sufficient to look or act like a gouger by being rough-looking and dirty or disrespectful to and disliking the police , ‘ giving lip ’ and swearing , coming from ‘ a problem family ’ and being of low intelligence ( ‘ not all there ’ , ‘ air getting in ’ , ‘ not right ’ , ‘ a few bricks short of a full load ’ ) . |
| 8 | I GIVE my estate free of all taxes and duties to the Royal Air Forces Association ( Registered charity No. 226686 ) whose Central Headquarters is at 43 Grove Park Road , Chiswick , London , W4 3RX and I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of the said Association shall be sufficient discharge to my executors or trustees . |
| 9 | The all-alloy 24-valve twin-cam engine is described by Cosworth as being of the ‘ high-efficiency ’ type , and follows the ‘ modular ’ theory — meaning that the basic design could suit anything from the three-cylinder unit to a V12 . |
| 10 | Omi not being of the school which sits as far at the back of a church as possible , Erika found herself under the nose of the Minister , who beamed upon her , and surrounded by family groups : parents , grandparents and children who made an agreeable din until a small group of musicians struck up the opening bars of the first hymn . |
| 11 | But the nature and being of Christ are not made obvious and clear-cut even in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 12 | Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere . |
| 13 | Kerry Downes , in his book English Baroque Architecture , calls this ‘ an elevation of great distinction ’ , while Pevsner refers to it as being of ‘ an elegant design and by an unknown architect , . |
| 14 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 15 | Common Law would treat a provision in a contract as to time as being ‘ of the essence of the contract ’ , meaning that if a certain act was not done by one party within a certain stipulated time , he should lose all rights under the contract ; Equity treated such a provision in general as not being of the essence of the contract , but as giving a right only to damages . |
| 16 | English cricket does not have this capacity for internal strife in the same way , the periodic Yorkshire blood-lettings being of a different order ; but West Indian cricket has grown strong precisely because it has risen above its problems , and on that basis England can not find the same sort of strength since they do not have the same problems to overcome . |
| 17 | He was a Libra , or the Balance , the seventh sign of the Zodiac whose name indicates that day and night , being of equal length , are being weighed ‘ in the balance ’ . |
| 18 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 19 | In the 1080s , when Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz wanted to retire to become a monk , his cathedral clergy wrote to him in horror , stressing a traditional view : ‘ Nothing in the world surpasses the life of a bishop ; every monk or recluse and every hermit , as being of lesser importance , must give way to him . ’ |
| 20 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 21 | Just as up can not exist without down , left without right , hot without cold , so existence is a condition of non-existence , space of non-space , being of non-being . |
| 22 | Organisers of the event , to be held here in July , have banned a team for being of too high a standard . |
| 23 | ‘ He is fine at present , ’ said Balding , who is running the gelding as an eight-year-old , being of the opinion that he will never be so well treated in the National by the handicapper again . |
| 24 | He was loudly booed by the 10,000 crowd as he walked in to bat and prepared to face his first ball , Jamaicans being of the opinion that he shares the blame for some poor World Cup selections . |
| 25 | There is , furthermore , considerable evidence in this study of social factors being of some significance . |
| 26 | However , economy being of prime importance , he included , he said , nothing inessential to the art of gardening that might increase the size and price ( eighteen shillings ) , but neither had he omitted any advice which might be deemed useful to the profession , ‘ so that upon the whole the work is rendered as complete a system of practical gardening as present knowledge of vegetation can supply ’ . |
| 27 | it isolates action as being of interest in itself in a way that does not occur either in dramatic playing or performing . |
| 28 | This will be important where the resources are vital for the well being of a subject 's dependent young ( see also Cheney 1978 ; Wrangham 1977 ) . |
| 29 | But then she was different from the vast majority of girls at Templeton 's , being of a more refined , though certainly not prissy , nature . |
| 30 | This interpretation amounts to saying that an animal will still recognize an habituated stimulus when that stimulus is presented in a new context but will be prepared to change very quickly its assessment of that stimulus as being of no significance . |