Example sentences of "a [noun sg] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and there 's like an old pick-up-ey type thing and then there 's this young lad and a , in a work 's Escort van and then there was me and I thought oh bit of a blow being behind this lot , but there 's not many places to overtake down there so I was |
| 2 | The Doctor had talked about a drug being in the atmosphere which created a feeling of unnatural well-being , but there was something else here . |
| 3 | How far this influenced some members of the government it is difficult to say but I have no doubt it was one of the factors which led to a majority being against abolition . |
| 4 | There are so many disadvantages to a vet being on his or her own — on call for twenty-four hours , no time off , expensive locums for holidays , and everything depending on good health . ’ |
| 5 | Taxes Act 1988 , s672 refers to a settlement being within Part XV " wherever made " . |
| 6 | But I think my sister was a bit scared of him , she felt he was a stranger being in u in er soldier 's uniform you know . |
| 7 | This came into being when the very first change in the first cell took place , and that change , which was the first biochemical action , ultimately proved to have been , or must be acknowledged to have been , taken to initiate the process which would continue indefinitely to produce a living being with an ever-increasing capacity to enjoy life . |
| 8 | But to eyes not looking through ancient spectacles , it assuredly appears as an affair of the intercourse of a living being with its physical and social environment . |
| 9 | And she 's had rats under that shed it ai n't that long ago she said , she said she had them so I mean I ca n't see anybody with an ounce of common sense letting a chicken being on the ground , ground |
| 10 | But to say that I have had an experience of God , whom I claim to be a transcendent being outside myself , can not be self-authenticating . |
| 11 | To understand this , one has to think along certain lines , about what it means to talk of a sensation being in a certain part of one 's body . |
| 12 | One interesting fact was that the extension is supported by over 100 piles , a consequence of the building , as a whole being on the site of an old rubbish tip ! |
| 13 | Nearly half the women were in the ‘ administration , clerical and sales ’ category , a minority being in sales . |
| 14 | I remember , after one lesson , having a sensation of a collar being around my neck which prevented me from turning my head ( similar to the kind people have to wear after painful neck injuries ) . |
| 15 | But they can not be alike , since one of them requires a sentient being for its existence while the other does not . |
| 16 | Besides , works can gain by the company they keep in a museum collection , a landscape being in a group of works of similar date and intentions , or a portrait seen among contemporaries . |
| 17 | ‘ You know I have a problem being in Germany . |
| 18 | Wall lighting may result in a face being in unhelpful shadow because seen against the background of a lighted wall . |
| 19 | His first seniors outing , however , may well be in Japan , where qualification is based on a player being in his 50th year , rather than his actually having reached the 50 mark . |