Example sentences of "[being] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I , being about the verger 's age , was inclined to understand what he felt . |
| 32 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 33 | The only other substantial left review was to be found in The Morning Star where Jeff Sawtell found the film politically distinctive because it was ( unusually ) a film ‘ from within the class ’ rather than simply being about the class . |
| 34 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 35 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 36 | John had the name first , this being about the only tangible asset retrieved from the Wavesports collapse , but when Pete set up his firm at a later date there was no indication that John would be producing clothing . |
| 37 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 38 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airports series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 39 | Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/ … |
| 40 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airport series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 41 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |
| 42 | Most volcanic bombs are relatively small , being about the size of a football , but much larger bombs can be produced in very violent eruptions . |
| 43 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 44 | We all reckon that being as the prize for lowest weight was a year on the Cambridge Diet he fished without any bait at all on the hook . |
| 45 | As soon as people began to build artificial forms and structures , sacred geometry came into being as the pattern , conscious or unconscious , underlying a particular structure . |
| 46 | Being as the car 's going on Monday I do n't actually need the gemini er alarm . |
| 47 | But every woman makes a choice about her appearance ; she is exercising the power of the Queen of Beauty , which is to express qualities of being through the physical medium . |
| 48 | The Council 's Charter did not formally require it to initiate , to enter policy arenas , to sponsor development , and in fact it prescribed the CNAA 's role in the ‘ diffusion and extension of the arts , sciences and technologies ’ as being through the approval of courses of study and the granting of awards . |
| 49 | An easy symbiosis had come into being between the cultivated pagan and the educated Christian . |
| 50 | The dependency theorists logically identified the main distinction as being between the national bourgeoisie , whose enterprises were based on local capital and the comprador bourgeoisie , whose interests were tied to foreign capital . |
| 51 | Mr. Frank Farr leased a garden at the end of a lane called Prospect Place , the entrance being between The Saint Ann 's Street Post Office and Hibberds Antique Shop . |
| 52 | This conflict , it would seem , has come about because , broadly speaking , the human race has divided in its response to the vital choice that has been introduced in the foregoing paragraphs , and which can best be summarised as being between the following two major propositions . |
| 53 | We would be even more a country of two societies than is already the case , with the divide being between the employed haves and the unemployed have-nots . |
| 54 | It seems that Humphrey had several favourite places where he viewed the progress of the works , one such place being between the weighbridge and the steel works . |
| 55 | Regional specialization developed , the major division of labour being between the grain-surplus areas of the south and the grain-deficit areas of the north and centre . |
| 56 | Again , there were considerable variations between the townships , the greatest distinctions being between the working-class and middle-class communities . |
| 57 | A comparative approach will be taken , the comparison being between the UK and the US . |
| 58 | What would it mean being nearer the sun ? |
| 59 | That road came into being after the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 60 | That road came into being after the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 . |