Example sentences of "being [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the few fish which manage to return to Scottish rivers are estimated as being worth several hundreds of pounds each to your economy because of the revenue they create . |
| 2 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 3 | He widened the faculty from being Anglican to being for all denominations . |
| 4 | The City and the Grassroots argued , on the other hand , that successful urban social movements must confront state domination ( the tendency being for such domination to be centralised and tied up with the interests of monopoly capital ) and recognise the nature of local culture and experience . |
| 5 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 6 | And there 's wi wide er , spread unemployment and there 's the stress of being as that lady said , a single parent , erm , for women who work and have families they have their old conflict between what they 're doing , doing at home and what they 're doing at their work and who should have a priority . |
| 7 | Perhaps only a state of intoxication brought about by suppressants of these centres can really suffice to effect the final dissolution of the superego which , being after all a purely psychological agency , can not literally be soluble in alcohol . |
| 8 | In his spiritual autobiography , Grace Abounding , he described his descent as ‘ of a low and inconsiderable generation , my father 's house being of that which is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land ’ . |
| 9 | Wherever it is thought important to claim that things of a certain sort are good , being of that sort can not be what ‘ good ’ means ( what the property good is ) . |
| 10 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 11 | These were the portion that fitted into the metal block and atop the trigger guard , due to this section being of such a geometric shape ie three radii and tapered , and the hole through the butt , which was counterbored some 3/4 of its length . |
| 12 | By this I mean that the bait is only fished on the outward journey , the retrieve being of such a speed to bounce the bait across the surface and although I 've seen pike strike at these surface poppers , it 's a very rare occasion . |
| 13 | But the links were not consistent or sustained , in part perhaps because it was unclear what the general discussions could be expected to deliver for particular firms and structure plans , in particular , soon gained a reputation for being of little relevance for actual processes of development . |
| 14 | They held such things as power and government as being of little importance . |
| 15 | Guide books and handbooks for travellers often dismissed them as being of little interest . |
| 16 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 17 | abour nationally launching its final push before Thursday polls , dismissed Mr Winmills defection as being of little consequence . |
| 18 | The strength of the trade , and therefore the well being of all of us involved with it , will depend on its ability to adapt . |
| 19 | Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition . |
| 20 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 21 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 22 | However , there are also advantages in being of this gender . |
| 23 | Being of this nature , plants therefore automatically respond , to some degree , to the emotional and inner qualities of other species . |
| 24 | After all , the likely effects over three or four years of coming into contact with one or two class readers which blatantly fail to meet the needs of boys or girls will be qualitatively different from the effects of , say , every other one being of this kind . |
| 25 | ‘ As chairman I shall be working to ensure that the business voice is clearly heard in any discussions on any issue affecting the economic well being of this area , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 27 | It is called benefit and and the well being of those kids about there , that we 're educating them at our own school , that they can have jobs and work , and if this is going , my fear is , okay we can live within this , s as you say , it may that it 's just bad settlement for one year . |
| 28 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 29 | The aim is to give an initial impression of efficiency ; if you can not even get your own act together what likelihood is there of your being of any use to anyone else ? |
| 30 | I had not recognized my feelings for one of the women in the women 's group as being of any significance . |