Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |
| 2 | Visual communication has been categorised in various ways but none of them has succeeded in being comprehensive . |
| 3 | Perhaps it all has to do with being unworldly and prepared to believe in the little people at the end of the garden . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , in these conditions , the Swamp Eel has adapted by being able to breathe atmospheric air during the times of drought when the swamps dry up , aestivating ( the summer version of hibernating ) until more favourable conditions return , by burrowing into the mud or travelling across land in search of alternative waterways . |
| 5 | We have a population which has benefited from being able to tap into a wide and diverse range of information through the printed word . |
| 6 | He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female . |
| 7 | Apart from the outstanding quality and rarity of many of the items , much of their fascination for scholars has lain in being able to document them in the family 's ancient inventories . |
| 8 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 9 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 10 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 11 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 12 | I was going to apologize for being stupid on Sunday when you both disappeared . |
| 13 | I 'm going to look at being funny . |
| 14 | And it 's more than er , and you can certainly do a better job than the Carlton so I mean , you do n't call , I mean , you do n't call him any competition at all I do n't but , you 've got to look at being able to do functions for two hundred . |
| 15 | I was going to apologise for being stupid on Sunday when you both disappeared . |
| 16 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 17 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |
| 18 | The creatures which live there manage to survive by being able to predict these violent changes . |
| 19 | What has all this got to do with being sixty ? |
| 20 | But Richard like to unwind by being active . |
| 21 | A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male . |
| 22 | We black Catholics must speak out in our schools for equality for our children , so that they can become the clergy and laity for the future without having to apologise for being black . |
| 23 | THIS five-year-old mare will go hurdling after being unbeaten in two bumpers last season . |
| 24 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 25 | The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain . |
| 26 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 27 | I liked to play at being bright . |
| 28 | Any discussion of crime must be cognizant of the fact that serious adverse consequences can and often do follow from being indifferent to the outcome of one 's actions ( or inactions ) . |
| 29 | When you 're a chap , you know , you do worry about being small . |
| 30 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |