Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] being [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it is not for me to suggest that I am worthy of ever being placed alongside the likes of the ‘ great ’ butlers of our generation , such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane — though it should be said there are those who , perhaps out of misguided generosity , tend to do just this . |
| 2 | From January 1991 divorced women would have the right to a share in family property , and child custody would be decided by the courts instead of automatically being granted to the father . |
| 3 | Moreover , autofocus lenses have the annoying habit of frequently being confused by the aquarium glass , resulting in out of focus photographs . |
| 4 | So far as the UK is concerned , the proposed Directive contains little that is new in substance and , indeed , it shows clear signs of actually being based on the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers , the UK rulebook for takeovers . |
| 5 | Paul Gascoigne , having pulled both Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor from the flames , looked like still being viewed by the head man more as a fireman than a suitable chief executive for England Football Club Limited . |
| 6 | Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings . |
| 7 | The 4-ply yarn is available in 18 shades and the 2-ply is available in six shades , with more being added by the end of the year . |
| 8 | Not content with simply being breathed into the atmosphere , the virus makes us sneeze or cough explosively . |
| 9 | It will cover anything from sudden nationalisation to just being deprived of the use of their assets , or a block on repatriating dividends . |
| 10 | This sees Clovis as converting directly from paganism to catholicism , without ever being influenced by the arian heresy . |
| 11 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
| 12 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |