Example sentences of "[being] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had , however , been tough being Bernard 's son , until he removed himself from his direct sphere of influence . |
| 2 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 3 | It was no picnic being William 's Minder . |
| 4 | THE BUCK STOPS HERE : Trevor McDonald 's distinguished career has taken him from a poor , but loving , childhood in Trinidad to being ITN 's first solo anchorman Picture : BILL KENNEDY |
| 5 | This being Ma 's first day back , I am excused the dark , which I so richly deserve … |
| 6 | Being Hereford 's keeper though , is rather like being King Canute . |
| 7 | I think with it being Tranmere 's first competitive game in Europe it is something people do n't want to miss . |
| 8 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 9 | The Pick version — Pick being Sequoia 's traditional operating system platform — comes in at $310,000 . |
| 10 | I thought she was beautiful , and I did n't mind about her being Down 's Syndrome . |
| 11 | Although Dionysius ' system was the origin of the AD sequence that we now employ , it was not made use of for nearly 200 years , the oldest known work in which it is employed being Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , of the early eighth century . |
| 12 | Being Labour 's money man is never easy , even when the party is still in opposition and you are as persuasive as Mr Smith . |
| 13 | It is by the appearance of hands by which Pip recognises Molly as being Estella 's mother and Molly 's strong deeply scarred hands , the result of a life of hardship and toil . |
| 14 | Denon has ‘ recreated ’ the ‘ true original sound ’ of the original Savoy master recordings ( the quotes being Denon 's words ) and is now re-issuing many Savoy albums as originally presented , at mid-price , and complete with original LP front covers and notes ( and Savoy 's famous misspellings . |
| 15 | Wilkins 's survival as warden of Wadham , his move to the mastership of Trinity College Cambridge in 1659 , his becoming bishop of Chester in 1668 , and his appointment as Lent preacher to the king suggest that there was nothing particularly hazardous in being England 's most conspicuous Copernican . |
| 16 | A companion RCA disc contains four 20th-century works , the earliest ( 1913 ) , being Webern 's Five Pieces , op 10 , polished epigrams , and the latest , Fortner 's interludes from his opera Blood Wedding ( 1957 ) , which sound much older than the Webern . |
| 17 | One side effect of being Scotland 's largest PR firm — with a turnover of £3.75 million and fee income of £1.8 million last year — is that , rightly or wrongly , it can give potential clients the impression of being both expensive and impersonal . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the ‘ real ’ criminals were defined as being capitalism 's large corporations and state agencies . |
| 19 | Gloucestershire may well have been influenced by this being Walsh 's benefit year , a traditionally powerful distraction , and by the fact that he could be thought out of touch , having missed last season due to the West Indies tour . |
| 20 | The idea of me being Caro 's boyfriend . |
| 21 | Being Phil 's mate , for example , was something which many fans aspired to even though they could never hope to carry off the performances required of an aggro leader themselves . |
| 22 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 23 | But Qinghua was something of an exception , being China 's top technological university , with better facilities than other institutions and a high level of prestige . |
| 24 | A China ready to stand on principle would then have to tell North Korea to accept the help on offer or else — the or-else being China 's acquiescence in , and compliance with , UN sanctions against the North . |
| 25 | Ad triangulum is based on the equilateral triangle , the finest example in England being King 's College Chapel in Cambridge . |
| 26 | Details of what looks like being Ulster 's best Moto Cross of the year were released by the Lisburn club today and spokesman Jimmy Walker said : ‘ In view of the fact that the province does n't have a world title date this year , we are anxious to fill the gap . ’ |
| 27 | Uphill again to the 17th , a gem of a hole on many courses yet merely ordinary at Augusta , the distinctive feature being Eisenhower 's Pine encroaching into the fairway . |
| 28 | The Dutchman is taking just 15 players to Milton Keynes for the game which is being televised live on BBC Grandstand , the one missing out being Lisnagarvey 's Peter Richardson . |
| 29 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 30 | Having said this , however , Kiefer goes on to point out that the masculine ideal of violent pride is in tension with the religious ideal of revenge as being God 's prerogative . |