Example sentences of "[conj] being [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or being in some way fragile and in need of protection . |
| 2 | What 's the difference between being in and being in all day ? |
| 3 | and being in this state for |
| 4 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |
| 5 | In books dealing with the more spiritual aspects of man , the levels are often portrayed as being outside each other , each ascending level being larger than the one below , as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 6 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 7 | Guide books and handbooks for travellers often dismissed them as being of little interest . |
| 8 | They held such things as power and government as being of little importance . |
| 9 | abour nationally launching its final push before Thursday polls , dismissed Mr Winmills defection as being of little consequence . |
| 10 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 11 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 12 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 13 | I had not recognized my feelings for one of the women in the women 's group as being of any significance . |
| 14 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 15 | A pain conceived of as being in another body is not yet conceived of as hurting another person . |
| 16 | For him , the first question is , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ , as though it were obviously not simply a matter of having the sensation in a certain place . |
| 17 | Ryle asks , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ 'in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ |
| 18 | Sleep had always been regarded as being in some way analogous to death ; the hypnotic trance was seen as having aspects of both conditions . |
| 19 | The vast majority of such experiences can easily be interpreted in terms of orthodox science — usually statistics : most people , including myself , have only a hazy understanding of the workings of probability , and so perfectly commonplace coincidences seem to be outrageously improbable , and are therefore viewed as being in some way paranormal . |
| 20 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 21 | So individualism must regard them as being in some way free from the determining influence of society , and it is this which makes the properties of individuals into a suitable stopping point for explanations . |
| 22 | If we regard stateless tribal societies as being in some measure representative of very early human societies , we can then ask what causes have brought the state into existence and assured its further development . |
| 23 | The 1986 Act views the appointment of an administrative receiver as being in some respects similar to insolvency proceedings and regulates it accordingly . |
| 24 | They are hesitant about calling their sense of vocation as being in any way visionary . |
| 25 | Yet it would be dangerous to regard such divisions as being in any way rigid . |
| 26 | So the principles can not be regarded as being in any doubt . |