Example sentences of "have [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 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 11 | A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male . |
| 12 | We black Catholics must speak out in our schools for equality for our children , so that they can become the clergy and laity for the future without having to apologise for being black . |
| 13 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |
| 14 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
| 15 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 16 | ‘ God in his mercy , lend her grace , ’ she muttered , thinking of Anna , her Anna , who had grown from being such a dull child into a truly engaging woman , a woman so richly deserving of being lent a little of God 's grace . |
| 17 | After all this I 've had with being late you know ? |
| 18 | Donaldson had got over being self-conscious about his signing quite early on in his training , but as he squatted down before the cage and made a greeting sign he felt that early embarrassment returning . |
| 19 | I have had a message from the Stan Standard Mercury , from Davis , that my a county has been hysterical , we 've talked about being paranoid one time this morning . |
| 20 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 21 | As creator the sun god had brought into being other cosmic powers , those of air ( Shu ) , earth ( Geb ) and sky ( Nut ) . |
| 22 | The Carlow men , ahead two goals and three points to five points within sight of half-time , had to settle for being level at the break after Mick McCarthy 's well struck goal . |
| 23 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 24 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 25 | That was the young man 's name , and within minutes of crossing the threshold , he had insisted on being one of the family . |
| 26 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 27 | In less than 30 years , the British economy had declined from being one of the strongest to one of the weakest in Europe . |
| 28 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |
| 29 | The station pilot at Holyhead , a Class 08 Diesel Shunter , had failed before being able to shunt the rake of NWCE coaches from the sidings and into the platform . |
| 30 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |