Example sentences of "[prep] [being] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their near-simultaneity was coincidence , in the sense of being beyond all collusion and foreknowledge , though all were by graduates of Oxford engaged in teaching and over the age of thirty . |
| 2 | And there 's wi wide er , spread unemployment and there 's the stress of being as that lady said , a single parent , erm , for women who work and have families they have their old conflict between what they 're doing , doing at home and what they 're doing at their work and who should have a priority . |
| 3 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 4 | ‘ Market growth ’ was replaced by Industry attractiveness — a term that in practice was used loosely , to refer to the attractiveness of being in that area of activity in which the SBU operated . |
| 5 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 6 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 7 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 8 | Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive . |
| 9 | For many of the disabled the greatest hardship they suffer is not the frustration and practical problems of lives that are limited by disability but the sense of being in some way segregated from the rest of society . |
| 10 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 11 | What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment . |
| 12 | Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether . |
| 13 | The Falcons are flying again — the RAF parachute display team , that is , and as Mike Rowbottom now reports , their first jump of the new season was a nerve-wracking business despite being in many ways a routine affair . |
| 14 | from being at this angle where you 're looking directly |
| 15 | The matter particles are described by fields of one-half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle , which prevents more than one particle of a given kind from being in any state . |
| 16 | However , there are also advantages in being of this gender . |
| 17 | Moreover , the international co-operation originally envisaged by the fathers of EDC is much in evidence and that ‘ nucleus of people knowledgeable in Mathematics curriculum ’ is already in being in some countries . |
| 18 | Hopefully he 's interested in being in this band that we 're trying to put together . |
| 19 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 20 | He widened the faculty from being Anglican to being for all denominations . |
| 21 | Mr.Groves had aspirations to become a missionary and was instrumental in getting Kitto a place in the Missionary College in Islington , London where he learnt printing with a view to being of some service in some foreign missionary institution . |
| 22 | He had got used to being in this room , shut in by the four scrawled walls , the sloping ceiling and the unrelenting noise . |
| 23 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 24 | I get the impression that , of the three , Hardenberger 's favourite is the Blake Watkins Concerto , which he considers ‘ very English , more traditional perhaps but without being in any way limited . |
| 25 | Even while authoritative actions reflect the subjects ' reasons , indeed in order that they should do so , they may well lead to different outcomes on particular occasions , and that without being in any way wrong or mistaken on those occasions . |
| 26 | You should also have set an example for this beforehand , by sometimes making yourself scarce when your parent 's friends come , without being in any way unsociable or unwilling to prepare food and drink for them . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever Scotland 's team , I want us to be creative enough to make the Maltese worry without being in any way self conscious about problems that are in the past , ’ concluded the national coach . |
| 28 | It was Eastman who invented the name Kodak — easy to spell and memorable without being in any way offensive in many languages . |
| 29 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 30 | Actually I tell you one good thing about being in this choir yeah , I 'm in this little choir tonight , choir yeah , |