Example sentences of "[being] near the " in BNC.

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1 The 16th was also moved from its 1908 place ( approximating to the present ) to become a longer version ( 250 yards ) of what is played today — i.e. the green being near the present ladies ' 17th tee box .
2 My kit being near the casualty ( by now conscious ) , I thought it may have been mistakenly picked up .
3 As well as being near the time of the Seventh Sea , it is also the year in which Paco 's latest men 's fragrance , Teneré is launched : ‘ Teneré means ‘ to possess the hidden power of the sun ’ .
4 The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary .
5 Right erm before we broke off erm this last question I 'm going to ask you , you were s you were saying about erm in terms of erm some of the good points of h the , you were talking about it being pretty central erm for buses erm being near the forest erm what about erm in terms of local shops ?
6 And I do n't like her being near the children . ’
7 In those days a mill was sold on the basis of good wind and being near the top of a hill .
8 A man with a poor employment history , who has lost several jobs and experienced intermittent phases of unemployment , has a considerably raised probability of becoming depressed when he is again made redundant ( Eales , 1985 ) , but will also have a raised chance of being near the top of an employer 's list for redundancy in so far as it is the policy of many employers to exercise a ‘ last in first out ’ policy .
9 Or , indeed , any trace of someone being near the bell ?
10 Ah it would be because er you have to pay for being near the bard .
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