Example sentences of "[prep] being [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Llanelli right wing returned to Aussie two years later but staggered away from Brisbane 's Ballymore Stadium close to tears after being part of the most humiliating defeat in his nation 's history . |
| 2 | After being cook on the last Whitbread she announced her intention to enter the next Whitbread in her own yacht , with an all women crew . |
| 3 | JMD 's mail is given to JMB after being date stamped . |
| 4 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 5 | A BOY of six was seriously ill in hospital last night after being mown down by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 6 | SCHOOLBOY Carl Leadbetter was fighting for his life yesterday after being mown down by joyriders . |
| 7 | A sub-postmaster is recovering in hospital after being pistol whipped by a would-be robber . |
| 8 | There are fears tonight that three councils in the region will be forced to cut services and impose redundancies after being charge capped by the Government . |
| 9 | The council needs to save £1m after being charge capped for overspending . |
| 10 | The council must save a million pounds after being charge capped by the Government . |
| 11 | It was n't pleasant , after being cock of the school , to be made feel like a good-for-nothing little brat tied to her apron strings . " |
| 12 | The bean itself is the seed inside , which is carefully transported to the UK after being hand picked and the outer flesh removed . |
| 13 | It was Ana who came forward as Maggie came into the room , and clearly she did not let her blindness get in the way of being hostess for her brother . |
| 14 | Importance of being Kenneth |
| 15 | The result has been that the majority of boards produced today fall under the blanket description of being funboards , although there are in fact a number of different designs . |
| 16 | The three had frequently been accused by Israel of being leaders of the intifada . |
| 17 | There maybe societies where there is a privilege and inequality , but as long as we have in Britain a system where the head of the state , is head of state because the person inherited the position of being monarch and as long as we have a institution such as the House of Lords . |
| 18 | Have n't you noticed yet that Thorfinn is prouder of being Earl of Orkney than he is of ruling Scotia ? |
| 19 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 20 | The board master performs this service on a voluntary basis and the prerequisite of being board master is knowing the fishing thoroughly ; because he has to tell new guests where to go , how to get there , which path to take , which bog to avoid , where not to fall in — so he really must know what he is talking about . |
| 21 | The first was that they were legally members of the National Church by virtue of being Crown Subjects ; this was nonsense of course as the tolerance introduced after the ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ recognized Dissenters ' right to exist , even if it were a restricted right . |
| 22 | Throughout Western culture there 's less sense of expanding opportunity ( the original motor of youth music ) and more fear , more sense of being embattles . |
| 23 | Asked to name the worst aspect of being Curator of the Tate , Serota had no answer . |
| 24 | I point to the last Northern Ireland Assembly , of which I had the honour of being Speaker . |
| 25 | This similarity should caution against making too firm a distinction between the three ; for example one might have sought to make distinctions in terms of being instances of either ‘ new ’ or ‘ old ’ racism , especially on the grounds that new racists , unlike old racists , will justify their position by citing non-racial general principles ( Sniderman and Tetlock , 1986a , 1986b ; see also Potter and Wetherell , 1987 , for arguments against deducing ‘ true ’ attitudes from discourse ) . |
| 26 | Another patient who has multiple sclerosis is not cured but she can walk after years of being wheel-chair bound . |
| 27 | In Petrograd , the Kadets accused the Rada of being agents of the Germans , and the newspaper of the Soviet , Izvestia , proclaimed : |
| 28 | However , only a few Nonjurors became active Jacobites , in the sense of being agents or conspirators . |
| 29 | I 'm really afraid of being shit |
| 30 | Furthermore , even the archaic powers that had not started from the position of being nation-states were forced to compete ; the Tsars thrust their reach eastwards to block the British advance in Asia , to stop the other Europeans in China , and finally to try to halt the westward movement of Japan . |