Example sentences of "being [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took 155 wickets for England at an average of 26.16 , his best series being during the MCC tour of Australia in 1924–5 when he took 38 wickets , at that time a record for England versus Australia . |
| 2 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 3 | Well I remember being aboard the Brandon , because Uncle John came and stayed with us at the cliff and er , er father was at sea somewhere but he came and stayed with us and then he now went down into er to see his captain cos they were sailing on on the tide the next day . |
| 4 | Mr Loveitt wants to hear what you have to tell about being aboard the Princess . ’ |
| 5 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 6 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 7 | Initially conceived to capitalise on Time Out being off the streets , it was clearly a mistake to sit back and allow Time Out to return first . |
| 8 | We felt we were halfway back to civilian life , being off the camp and in the middle of an interesting town . |
| 9 | Laburnum , just beaten at the last Kempton meeting after being off the course since April , was the big weekend gamble yesterday . |
| 10 | Certainly her being off the scene was handy for Steenie . |
| 11 | ‘ He was the best horse I 've trained and was only just getting going again after being off the track for nearly a year . ’ |
| 12 | If Raskolnikov was to have mounted an assault of something like Grand Inquisitor proportions , if he was to have expatiated on the whole God business not being worth the pain of one misused child , then the time was n't ripe ; we must wait for Ivan Karamazov . |
| 13 | Industry encroached , roads ribboned , and the previously attractive landscape became dreary wasteland as farmers abandoned the small cut-off parcels of arable land as no longer being worth the effort . |
| 14 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 15 | And after it being for the money , I thought being an elf would please my son . ’ |
| 16 | There 's plenty of hard riffing here , but ‘ Mr Wilson ’ begins quirkily , fussily , like The Beatles on ‘ Sgt Pepper 's ’ ‘ Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite ’ , and the next song , ‘ Moanjam ’ , roars off like Motorhead 's ‘ Ace Of Spades ’ . |
| 17 | There 's plenty of hard riffing here , but ‘ Mr Wilson ’ begins quirkily , fussily , like The Beatles on ‘ Sgt Pepper 's ’ ‘ Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite ’ , and the next song , ‘ Moanjam ’ , roars off like Motorhead 's ‘ Ace Of Spades ’ . |
| 18 | The Civic Theatre has three series of subscription ticket offers , the second being for the plays The Heiress , with Frank Finlay heading a strong cast , from June 1–6 , and Shakers from June 8–13 , and the production of My Cousin Rachel on June 22–27 , starring Anita Harris , Edward ( Leo Howard ) Highmore and Fleur Bennett . |
| 19 | Sexual contact ‘ includes the intentional touching of the victim 's or actor 's intimate parts or the intentional touching of the clothing covering the immediate area of the victim 's or actor 's intimate parts , if that intentional touching can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification . ’ |
| 20 | First there is the fact that the object chosen in sexual activity is a surrogate object ; a real desire being for the parent , or sibling , usually of the opposite sex . |
| 21 | Altogether , these 63 centres expect to register over 2,400 students and trainees for the general SVQs , with the largest numbers being for the awards in care ( over 900 ) and hospitality ( around 800 ) . |
| 22 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 23 | Defensive measures might also be justifiable as being for the good of society as a whole ( i.e. because society has an interest in the efficient operation of the business that might be damaged if the company is taken-over ) . |
| 24 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 25 | This involves — whether we like it or not — teaching them how to think ; the capacity for being scholars in the true sense of the word has to be shared with everyone instead of being for an elite of specially gifted , specially privileged pupils . |
| 26 | It was different from the Christian story in being about a race which had not been punished by death , rather by weariness of life ( see especially Letters , p. 236 ) . |
| 27 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 28 | I remembered the Bible-box being about a yard in from the edge . |
| 29 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 30 | I , being about the verger 's age , was inclined to understand what he felt . |