Example sentences of "[noun] being [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IV or Four was on the door to the right and round the corner on the left was the Handwork Room , the Headmaster 's Study being on the extreme right next to the bathroom and opposite the Staff Common Room . |
| 2 | There are two columns of measurements to enter , the first column being for the actual body measurements and the second for the amount of ease that you wish to add to each of the actual measurements . |
| 3 | The general expansion of a functional y in the series with the kernel functions being of the invariable heredity form was used by Green & Rivlin ( 1957 ) to give the general form for the constitutive relation in a non-linear solid : |
| 4 | Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children . |
| 5 | There are large private and public collections in several countries , the best in Scotland being in the National Museum of Antiquities , Edinburgh ; the Burns House Museum , Mauchline ; and the Baird Institute , Cumnock . |
| 6 | Their restraint was mainly due to their feeling of strangeness — it was unique for them to be sharing the seats with the men , their usual place being in the high gallery around the side-walls . |
| 7 | My preference when fish are feeding hard on the bottom is for the fixed paternoster which , due to the lead being at the extreme end of the line , casts further and more accurately than any other set-up . |
| 8 | On that point , I would say that there are a number of considerations which arise as the result of that site being within the conservation area that militate against development in themselves , and this is in general well recognized on your side , and by the er er by the City Council . |
| 9 | ( b ) Calculate to four significant figures the ratio of the rate of diffusion through a porous membrane of hydrogen chloride gas composed wholly of molecules to the rate of diffusion of a gas composed wholly of molecules , both gases being at the same temperature and pressure . |
| 10 | The umbrella being on the upper deck . |
| 11 | The voltage across the diode , V D , follows that from the output of the switch , that is , very closely equal to V 1 assuming an ideal switch , during the period T O N ; when the switch opens , the back e.m.f. inversion across the inductor allows current I D to pass through the diode , this current being in the same direction inductor-wise as before but now decreasing . |
| 12 | In view of the lack of English success in the past years , the war was now being discussed in terms which suited the French , the emphasis being on the feudal interpretation of the treaty of Brétigny . |
| 13 | Only once , in a fleeting reference to Matisse is there a sense of the boot being on the other foot , of art offering a sense of liberation from social ideology . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin talked of the boot being on the other foot . |
| 15 | Roger Sweeney 's book will enable anyone contemplating adding a snake of the genus Thamnophis to their collection to avoid all the common pitfalls , his knowledge being of the practical sort gleaned from his position as livestock manager at Surrey-based Birdworld . |
| 16 | The child is in what is described as a position of ‘ transverse lie ; ’ with the elbow projecting through the cervix and the head being on the right side . |
| 17 | are made in Devon in the style of traditional French cheeses , the Wheatland being like the best farmhouse Brie and the Moor following a recipe for Port Salut . |
| 18 | I ca n't find anyone who actually likes this offset idea , and you really do n't want to spend your playing career justifying why your instrument looks so wacky ; left to hang around the user 's neck , it does actually rest neck-up , as promised , although I would think that this has a fair bit to do with the strap button being under the top horn and slightly back towards the body . |
| 19 | Spectacular scenes abound in this lovely glen , the most-photographed being above the new bridge where there is a classic alpine view of the Saddle , a splendid mountain I have always had a soft spot for because I can pronounce its name with confidence . |
| 20 | The Wyllies have owned and managed the firm since then , the present owner being of the fourth generation . |
| 21 | Please thank Renata very much too for doing one ; her point about the reference count being on the small side for usefulness even to the general learner is a crucial one ; likewise yours about the belt-and-braces reassuringness of the transitive/intransitive label . |
| 22 | The greater proportion of boys in the sample reflected more high scoring boys than girls being in the lower mathematics sets in the schools working with the project . |
| 23 | IT 'S a woof life being on the old dog and bone all day … |
| 24 | If the wheel brake is powerful , the effect of any rapid deceleration increases the inertia effect of the mass being behind the main wheel , and so accentuates any swinging tendency . |
| 25 | The abdominal aspect of the sacrum in males displays a uniform curve with the deepest part of the hollow at the third segment ; whereas in females , the upper portion is flattened and the lower portion sharply angulated ( the deepest part being at the fourth segment ) . |
| 26 | Continue for a while , and Mayfair Road can be found on the right hand side , with the property being on the same side . |
| 27 | Take a right into Kiln Lane and continue for ¼ mile and Netherwoods Close can be found on the right hand side with the property being on the same side . |
| 28 | The occurrence of colitis in animals that are vitamin deficient or that are treated with inhibitors of fatty acid metabolism support the theory that fatty acid metabolism is vital to the well being of the colonic epithelium . |
| 29 | This territory had been annexed to Poland after its occupation by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War , a situation accepted de facto by the Western powers at the Potsdam conference of July-August 1945 ( the northern part of East Prussia being at the same time incorporated into the Soviet Union ) . |
| 30 | They are also incorporated into internal filters and external filters ; and provide the water moving power for the most advanced trickle or wet and dry filters ( which are usually gravity-fed , the pump being in the last section to return the water . ) |