Example sentences of "being [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted being the busty brunette who shouted at a man : ‘ Get a load of these ’ . |
| 2 | The scale of the mobilization was substantial : South Wales had 106 such groups , North Yorkshire had 34 , and — despite the area being the weakest link in the NUM 's operations — Nottinghamshire had 30 ( Stead , 1987 ; Witham , 1986 ; North Yorkshire WAPC , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | In general , mobility falls with age ; the most mobile being the 16 to 24-year-old age group . |
| 4 | These start with the raw material and smallest components , at the highest levels , and display the order of assembly stages into larger and larger subassemblies as the level numbers decrease , the lowest level being the complete product . |
| 5 | These start with the raw material and smallest components , at the highest levels , and display the order of assembly stages into larger and larger subassemblies as the level numbers decrease , the lowest level being the complete product . |
| 6 | Recorded in Vienna on their '89 tour of duty and mixing established Rollins-show standards from ‘ Hot Animal Machine ’ , ‘ Life Time ’ and ‘ Hard Volume ’ along with a handful of ( as yet ) unreleased items — the most spectacular being the towering desolation of ‘ Out There ’ — ‘ Turned On ’ is the closest possible documentation of the live Rollins experience short of having the man come and play in your front room . |
| 7 | Recorded in Vienna on their '89 tour of duty and mixing established Rollins-show standards from ‘ Hot Animal Machine ’ , ‘ Life Time ’ and ‘ Hard Volume ’ along with a handful of ( as yet ) unreleased items — the most spectacular being the towering desolation of ‘ Out There ’ — ‘ Turned On ’ is the closest possible documentation of the live Rollins experience short of having the man come and play in your front room . |
| 8 | the development of the urban informal proletariat has been discussed fully in the previous chapter , its rural counterpart being the agricultural semi-proletariat . |
| 9 | There may be a significant fall in volume in the first year or so , but while the third party suppliers to Technology may feel that they have no alternative but to withdraw their products , they look like being the net losers as a result , while ICL sheds crocodile tears all the way to the bank . |
| 10 | Over the past year alone , the group claims to have jumped from being the ninth most popular supplier of personal systems in Europe to being sixth , with unit shipments up 40% . |
| 11 | All his team have appeared in one-day internationals , the most recent debutant being the impressive Murphy Su'a , the first player of Samoan descent to play for the Kiwis . |
| 12 | Basically , the projected dichotomy of the model rests on the assumption that every society recognizes a distinction between culture and nature , with ritual being the outer manifestation or expression of this recognition and representing culture 's need to regulate and control the passive functioning of its opposite , nature — ‘ nature ’ itself , of course , being a construct of ‘ culture ’ . |
| 13 | The ancients taught of a universe built on invisible causes , the material world being the outer garment , veil or effect of a higher , more subtle order of reality . |
| 14 | The meaning of a word is determined by its place in the network as a whole , the most important characteristic being the hierarchical organisation of the set inclusion links ( usually known as ’ ISA ’ links ) . |
| 15 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 16 | The infinitesimal probability of being the decisive vote , coupled with the significant costs of voting , may indeed mean that no individual has an incentive to vote , even on issues of considerable importance . |
| 17 | He lived and died in Königsberg , never venturing beyond the province , and had the reputation of being the contented bachelor from whose afternoon walk it was possible to set one 's watch . |
| 18 | One is the model 210 , which utilises a ported 2x10 enclosure , the other being the 1155 , a single fifteen-inch bass driver accompanied by a smaller high-frequency five-inch unit , again in a tuned and ported cabinet . |
| 19 | This would seem to contradict , however , the notion of major transgressions being the much-delayed after-effects of an orogeny . |
| 20 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 21 | ‘ Gedan ’ being the lower area , ge can stand for ‘ guts ’ . |
| 22 | France was cited by Voronin as being the Soviet economy 's second most important investor after West Germany and in 1989 over 30 Soviet-French enterprises were set up . |
| 23 | Hicks describes some of the limitations of co-citation measures as being the delayed inception of clusters , and inconsistent definitions of subject and keyword terms . |
| 24 | Organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society contributed to the development of the ‘ New Left ’ whose main aim was to ensure that professionals , managers and students were not reduced to being the mere tools of the ruling class . |
| 25 | The trial unmasked him as a complete charlatan and , in the words of one detective , ‘ as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get ’ . |
| 26 | Detective Inspector Mike Bennett said : ‘ He was as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get . |
| 27 | So , as I have recounted already , there came into being The Perfect Murder , which turned out to be the first of my books to be published in America . |
| 28 | Margaret Seymour-Strachey ( who prided herself on being the perfect daughter-in-law ) would do anything for her husband 's mother except bring her children into overmuch contact with her . |
| 29 | Do n't try to paint a picture of your client being the perfect citizen if he 's not the perfect citizen . |
| 30 | Now that he was being the perfect gentleman in not pursuing her , at last she began to breathe more easily . |