Example sentences of "addition [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holland was an unbleached linen with a glazed surface and , though slightly less attractive to the eye than bleached linen , had the same properties , with the addition of being water-resistant , an important matter to be taken into account when dead bodies were concerned . |
| 2 | The Safety Authority said last night that Mr Bailey was a Department of Transport official , in addition to being secretary to the authority . |
| 3 | Unless a writer is eligible to join the PRS as a publisher member ( in addition to being a songwriting member ) there is little point in setting up a new publishing company . |
| 4 | But that has led to him becoming involved in an ‘ appalling number ’ of outside bodies , in addition to being chancellor of Aston University and a trustee of the Bournville village . |
| 5 | In addition to being a family house it is Timothy 's working base for his painting and sculpture . |
| 6 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , who has a full-time job as Governor of the Bank of England in addition to being Lord Lieutenant of Kent , sits on an estate of 2,400 acres . |
| 7 | ‘ In addition to being one of the few remaining commons in the area Newtown Common is a very valuable home for wildlife . ’ |
| 8 | In addition to being elected King of the Franks , and overlord of vast territories in Europe , Charles was now divinely crowned . |
| 9 | This is perhaps symptomatic of the fact that the principle of equal opportunities between the sexes has been so heavily promoted by educationists , in addition to being supported by the DES and politicians , that the law has been viewed as having a very much secondary purpose in this area . |
| 10 | ( It should be noted that Article 3(5) of the Directive does not actually state whether the land designated has to be inherently poor in addition to being affected by specific handicaps ; neither does it define ‘ specific handicaps ’ . |
| 11 | The author was an Assistant Keeper of the Public Records and his book , in addition to being lucid and well-illustrated , contains a structured bibliography under the headings : general , materials and instruments , languages , abbreviation , publications in record type , miscellaneous and transcribed facsimiles , this last illustrating the appearance of a wide range of documents . |
| 12 | We are equally concerned that backing this up is an organisation which ( in addition to being efficient ) ensures equal opportunity , and an adult ambience of personal care in which responsibility and individuality can flourish ( not easy to achieve ) . |
| 13 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 14 | In addition to being relatively free from many major diseases , those people in developing countries , eating their high-fibre diets , were found to escape another major scourge of Western civilization — obesity . |
| 15 | In 1930 , all four cars were sent in turn to Hendon , where in addition to being brought into line with No. 32 , they were rebuilt similar to the six ‘ M Type ’ cars ( which see ) . |
| 16 | ‘ In addition to being confident and able to run a company as well as the financial division , they must have a good knowledge and understanding of the company 's business , the market , the competitors and be able to maintain a strict sense of control and discipline as well as take a longer-term view in terms of strategy and business development . ’ |
| 17 | In addition to being a cost-effective cladding solution , Trisomet is also aesthetically pleasing , having a crisp , clear , outer profile with a choice of 14 standard colours . |
| 18 | In addition to being a major contractor in the British programme to identify a safe geological repository site for radioactive waste , the Group carries out research in geochemistry , hydrogeology and microbiology within European Community projects and for various international customers . |
| 19 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 20 | In addition to being distasteful , the monarch is warningly coloured with black and orange stripes , should the bluejay need another reminder . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special . |
| 22 | I forgot to mention , sir , that in addition to being a student of ancient Greek language and literature Lieutenant Denholm is also a connoisseur of the small craft of the Aegean . |
| 23 | Comprising four large and seven small triptychs and fifty other works , it has been curated by Dr Rudy Chiappini , director of the Dicastero Musei e Cultura della Citta di Lugano , and private dealer Massimo Martino , and is the most important , in addition to being the only really international , exhibition ever to have been organised by the Lugano Municipal Arts Museum . |
| 24 | In addition to being a parish priest Fr. |
| 25 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of Sun Microsystems Inc WABI binary interface for Windows applications under Unix , and providing the MS-DOS and Windows emulator on most other vendors ' Unix machines , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 26 | In addition to being under-counted in the unemployment figures , a woman 's class is determined by that of her husband , all tables are presented with the male figures first , the ‘ head of the household ’ definition systematically favours men , and housework is not classified as work . |
| 27 | Hence in addition to being counts they are also Electors , and for this reason their full title is more properly Elector Counts . |
| 28 | In some ways , however , Maidstone is several small prisons within one perimeter , for in addition to being a training prison it has two special functions . |
| 29 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of WABI and being the MS-DOS/Windows emulator on practically everyone else 's box , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 30 | Certainly Hobhouse can be taken as a representative figure since , in addition to being a leading light of New Liberalism , he also held the first Chair of Sociology to be established in Britain — at the London School of Economics , which was founded by the Webbs . |