Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | The health authority is entitled to object and does object to being subject to an order of the court with penal consequences in the event of disobedience when it does not know precisely what is required of it . |
| 11 | A traditional worker who absents himself without good reason or who persistently fails to show up for his job is likely to he disciplined or dismissed , and a casual worker who fails to appear without being able to offer good justification , or who is seldom available , is likely to be dropped from the list of those who an organisation will contact . |