Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detective enjoyed the sense of privilege imparted by being an insider . |
| 2 | A split-second after the stoppage , the 26-year-old Magee crashed to the canvas taking an embarrassed Thomas with him and needed a couple of minutes to recover before being hauled to his feet . |
| 3 | Therefore the Board of AEA of course remains in being . |
| 4 | But neither they nor an unreformed Exchequer could handle the large new sources of income brought into being by Henry VIII 's breach with Rome : the first fruits of bishoprics , the tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices , the revenue from the renting and sale of monastic lands . |
| 5 | Three main schools of fighting came into being : ‘ naha-te ’ , ‘ tomari-te ’ and ‘ shuri-te ’ , named after the towns on Okinawa that nurtured them . |
| 6 | This is far from clear , for the Army at least was prepared to allow the Church of England to remain in being , with bishops deprived of coercive powers . |
| 7 | So there may be a sort of shame attached to being a Tory , up to the last minute , when a different instinct intervenes . |
| 8 | This brings on ‘ feelings of contentment associated with being in love , ’ says Prof. Diana Bunce . |
| 9 | There is some species of genuine advance , whereby old discoveries and contentions provide a basis for new discoveries and contentions , and a corpus of knowledge comes into being . |
| 10 | Children 's toys , for example ( dolls or ‘ Action Man ’ ) , clothes ( pink for a girl , blue for a boy ) and names help to establish and define stereotypical patterns of behaviour associated with being male or female . |
| 11 | Over and above the residual discomfort of managers used to being able to see bodies in seats around the office and to address them face-to-face , the teleworkers themselves can feel similarly cut off . |
| 12 | We need , therefore , to examine the role of these guilds to see how and why the trade of undertaker came into being before deciding whether or not to cast our lot with The London Tradesman . |
| 13 | If the hero is meant to be a man of authority used to being obeyed , he should be shown as such and the other characters should react to him accordingly … |
| 14 | The Islamic Republic of Iran came into being in January 1979 after the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 15 | How sad it is to behold how little importance life has for nature , these myriads of creatures called into being only to be immediately destroyed . " |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of misery comes from being pressurised by the label of ‘ pop star ’ . |
| 17 | Roosevelt telegraphed again that British insistence on traffic only between certain points was not realistic , and that the economic viability of services depended on being able to pick up intermediate traffic . |
| 18 | Two small demonstrations were reported , by groups of women protesting at being denied the vote . |
| 19 | Er there were new types of tools brought into being , er ceramic tools for example on the vertical boring mills . |
| 20 | So our perception of the nature of time changed from being independent of the universe to being shaped by it . |