Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His great sermons warned of the dangers of being controversial and subjective but confirmed that the movies could greatly increase their emotional power as a story-telling medium by developing a surer sense of society . |
| 2 | Exhorting him to forgive his personal wrongs for the sake of his own greater glory , she sings an ariette about the dangers of being inflexible . |
| 3 | Had not her sister Alice cautioned her of the dangers in being alone with a man , now that she had reached marriageable age ? |
| 4 | Morbidly inward , unforgiving , Cave goes against the grain of the times by being sick but refusing to be healed and integrated . |
| 5 | A self-appointed leader , he made the rules without being explicit about them or even explaining that there were rules . |
| 6 | This is one of the skills of being assertive . |
| 7 | ONE of the joys of being responsible for a column like this is that the search for news creates opportunities to become involved in developments which are normally outside the availability of most enthusiasts . |
| 8 | The Christians soon acquired a reputation even among the pagans for being generous with their money ; they thought it better to give than to enquire too closely into the merits of the recipients , and were therefore occasionally easy game for confidence tricksters . |
| 9 | Perception of reality is a matter of having ‘ ideas of sense ’ , which have the characteristics of being involuntary and not subject to our control , of being strong and lively , and of having a coherence and order . |
| 10 | It 's become a reflex for critics to castigate the readers for being partisan , for being sluggish and single-minded in their choices . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't blame the fans for being sceptical , ’ said Beck . |
| 12 | This is a year when you could realise the attractions of being self-employed . |
| 13 | Gay men , under pressure , could return to the closet and regain all the privileges of being male . |
| 14 | Young people are keen to be granted the privileges of being adult , while parents major on the responsibilities involved . |
| 15 | What we are really talking about of course is entitlement — sharing the privileges of being able to be in touch with other cultures . |
| 16 | Here the owners saw the advantages of being close to their raw material of steel , their power supply from coal , and their markets in Glasgow and along the Clyde valley . |
| 17 | Some countries like Malaysia have , however , managed to hang on to the advantages of being early recipients of such investments by virtue of their installed base of experienced workers who could help attract later entrants . |
| 18 | The Provo , Utah company says the addition of the software will make networked applications simpler to write as well as easier to update and maintain , without the need for major rewrites , and that applications based on HD-DOMS technology will have the advantages of being interoperable across diverse computing environments and tightly integrated into NetWare 's distributed network services . |
| 19 | The advantages of being conspicuous , and thus rapidly impressing predators with one 's distastefulness , outweigh the risk of being eaten before the message is conveyed . |
| 20 | However , the advantages of being able to store and retrieve information , merge scanned graphics and logos and apply numerous special graphics effects has allowed bureaux to charge a premium for this sort of service . |
| 21 | The advantages of being able to deploy the micro-budget came from the fact that the case manager was both the person undertaking the assessment , and the direct worker who understood local opportunities . |
| 22 | The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating . |
| 23 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 24 | Not the overt power of armies and governments , but the more subtle powers encoded in the social order of modernism which has positioned the experiences of being female , male , black and white , an artist , reader , writer , from First or Third World , as having an immovable and constitutive character . |
| 25 | The days of being able to pay off small amounts are gone , Mrs Snowball said . |
| 26 | And if you get an interview you are more likely to succeed if you can prove that you are a positive person who has made demonstrable efforts to counteract the ill-effects of being unemployed and have managed to put your time to constructive use . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the academic discipline of English studies followed the familiar dynamics of a professionalizing process in which the conditions of being human were themselves masculinized . |
| 28 | Much recent research in social cognition has stressed that many apparently complex tasks satisfy all or many of the conditions for being automatic in this sense ( e.g. social categorisation — Higgins , Rholes & Jones , 1977 ; Higgins , 1989 ; causal attribution — Bargh , 1984 ; social interaction — Langer , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Although the method has drawbacks , particularly that it is difficult to eliminate duplications from the results , it has the merits of being simple , and giving reasonably consistent results with a number of observers and being readily repeated . |
| 30 | This method of appointment has the merits of being quick and cheap . |