Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It frightens me to think that not only are we so vulnerable to these monsters but also that we are constantly blamed for being provocative or careless . |
| 2 | All too frequently , Conservative Members are wrongly accused of being anti-local authorities . |
| 3 | Dolly was obviously set on being sociable for the whole evening . |
| 4 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 5 | Foreign Office officials gleefully admit to being freer to launch new ideas , particularly on security policy . |
| 6 | The Allegro spiritoso first movement moves along naturally , its quiet vivacity being all the better realized for being unforced . |
| 7 | The study did not spring into being overnight of course , and for over a decade a number of community groups throughout Appalachia have tried to combat the worst excesses of a pattern of landownership which breeds power without responsibility . |
| 8 | To admit to being innocent of guile somehow smacked of being undesirable , immature , but far better that than be thought an actress . |
| 9 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 10 | You will probably not succeed in being word-perfect , and there is danger in reciting a memorised speech either of appearing unnatural or of forgetting a complete section or even coming to a dead halt . |
| 11 | You will thus benefit from being clear in what you are aiming at and successfully achieving it more often than not |
| 12 | You will thus benefit from being able to use your own behaviour as a powerful influence . |
| 13 | We are also not bothered about being famous or number one in the charts . |
| 14 | He had explained that , ‘ Mrs Miller is a woman not used to being idle and will sweep clean through the house with fearsome enthusiasm if she is n't watched . |
| 15 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |
| 16 | This approach has been popular with teaching staff who are not known for being slow to complain about their administrative load . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps this will teach me not to think about being beautiful , ’ she said sadly . |
| 18 | So if we are to think of all of this in terms of Christian joy then we must realize that joy does not come from being immune to everything else that 's going on . |
| 19 | We believe that the council tax is already hovering between being unfair and being unworkable . |
| 20 | That nerve-racking encounter with Julius had dashed any hopes Jessamy had ever had of being able to get a good night 's sleep . |
| 21 | Bar owners will usually insist on being able to sell Guinness because of its popularity in Indonesia and generally the brewers will agree — but only if no Guinness promotional activity takes place in the bar . |
| 22 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 23 | I always erred on being over-cautious at the last , but never faulted there so obviously my caution paid off ! |
| 24 | He had always banked on being good enough to play another Test match , even if he had been made to serve the full five-year ban . |
| 25 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 26 | But the relevant changes are further defined by being unintended and at least to some extent beyond the control of the societies they affected , either because of their intrinsic character , or because of the scale on which they occurred . |
| 27 | ‘ We had one building where staff always complained of being sick , with suggestions that it might be a case of sick building syndrome . |
| 28 | This understanding of ‘ service ’ was crucial to the political practicality of citizenship which always depended upon being able to offer a reconciliation between ‘ personal rights ’ and , despite the vacillating liberal reinterpretations , ‘ the community ’ . |
| 29 | Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool . |
| 30 | We discussed in Report 11 the way this can be taken to excess by those teachers who couch the majority of their utterances in the form of questions , even when statements or instructions are more appropriate , and how such questioning can then become further debased by being low-level or closed . |