Example sentences of "being by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 2 | As head of its armed forces , General Noriega rules a country which was itself brought into being by the United States . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no higher glory of a Christian empire than that which was here brought into being by a death in a desert . ’ |
| 4 | He is ideally bred for the job being by the champion sire , Deep Run , from a granddam , Matchboard , who won 11 chases and five point-to-points . |
| 5 | Another sense in which you 're anti-humanist is that you have no truck with ideas of personal ( or social ) progress — people achieving self-sufficiency and fullness of being by becoming more ‘ conscious ’ . |
| 6 | Mr Mann insists that Punjab must be a homeland for the Sikhs , brought into being by a UN-supervised plebiscite . |
| 7 | I did not therefore expect to be invited here and was resigned to being by myself yet again and sure my spirits would once more be lowered . |
| 8 | It has been called the ‘ British Problem ’ , brought into being by a combination of renewed English ambition and , for the first time , a new attitude among at least some of the Scots to their southern neighbour . |
| 9 | Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes Faber , £18.99 A VERY large book about Shakespeare , who was a good poet , by the incumbent Poet Laureate , who is also a good poet , should prove something of an event . |
| 10 | Being by Sharpen Up , a proven ‘ sire of sires ’ , Sure Sharp would only need a bit more Pattern success to earn himself a place at stud . |
| 11 | Although subsequently repudiated by them , it was brought into being by the landlords , mainly from the early 19th century , to serve their own interests . |
| 12 | The cordones were units of industrial organisation made up of workers from various enterprises , which were brought into being by the Bosses ' strike in October 1972 . |
| 13 | On the following day , the day of their return ( only they were not to be expected until the late evening ) Franca , who was so used to being by herself , was unable to perform any ordinary activity . |
| 14 | The rejection of a loving , caring being by a cruel world becomes a proof of God 's love and a demonstration of its indestructibility . |
| 15 | ‘ Mother wo n't let us come here alone , and being with you is almost as good as being by ourselves ! ’ |
| 16 | This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves ! |
| 17 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 18 | He concedes that the new sector organisations called into being by Mr Heseltine last July are not yet up to speed . |
| 19 | Worthy of review for being by something called the Disco Universe Orchestra ( I want to join ) and for bearing the wise slogan LOUD AND WOBBLY MUSIC FOR THE '90Ss . |
| 20 | I never got good enough ( or brave enough ) to test her advice out , but , being by inclination an optimist , I would like to think that something of the same logic would apply to the National Curriculum and its tests . |
| 21 | It has recently been confirmed as being by the artist now generally known as the Master of the Spinola Annunciation , a close collaborator of Giotto . |
| 22 | Really , I 've surprised myself being a black man and being by my nature free living . |
| 23 | The Convention set a transitional period of 10 years , with an industrial free trade area coming into being by 1970 . |
| 24 | This month I shall being by answering a query from a reader in Surrey , who starts by asking if he should glue a watercolour or etching to a backing board , or hinge it by one edge only . |
| 25 | Police who searched the house of Baland in Blois after his arrest are reported to have found a wide range of forgeries including four Chagall drawings , four works by Dérain , ten by Dufy , two by Jean Cocteau , a Camille Pissarro and eighteen drawings described as being by ‘ Maîtres de l'école de Pont-Aven ’ . |
| 26 | Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power . |
| 27 | She loves being by water , be it the river Dee or the sea . |
| 28 | There was not far to walk , the formal procession to the gallows being by then a thing of the past . |
| 29 | I have never minded being by myself , and I consider those who do to be selfish . |
| 30 | But neither they nor an unreformed Exchequer could handle the large new sources of income brought into being by Henry VIII 's breach with Rome : the first fruits of bishoprics , the tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices , the revenue from the renting and sale of monastic lands . |