Example sentences of "being [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK position was in part seen as being due to the personal antipathy to whaling of Agriculture Minister John Gummer , who declared on the eve of the conference that " the way we kill whales revolts and appals many people , among them myself " [ see also ED no. 46 ] . |
| 2 | The many gaps in the fossil record can be interpreted both ways — as being due to the intrinsic incompleteness of a record based on random serendipitous preservation , or as reflecting the true historical sequence : what you see is all there is . |
| 3 | The first , brief account of her long love for Kallikrates which Ayesha gives to Leo Vincey and his guardian in She is expanded in Wisdom 's Daughter to emphasise this spirituality and to excuse her sin as being due to the inexorable power of love . |
| 4 | Given that the two parties were perceived as representing different poles of the political spectrum , government policy would lurch from being right of the political center under one adminstration to being left of center under another . |
| 5 | Just as a statistical sample ( Chapter 5 ) must be of a certain size before reliable inferences concerning the population can be drawn , so a number of simulations must be run before the average behaviour can be treated as being descriptive of the real system . |
| 6 | On the other hand , social scientists can often be stimulated to develop research by a combination of not knowing enough about an area and being dissatisfied with the current state of knowledge . |
| 7 | Moore 's terminology is complicated by the fact that he allows the possibility of properties which are not natural , without being non-natural in the special sense in which value properties are . |
| 8 | Lavin , it being unarguable on the present state of the law that the policemanliness of the victim is a circumstance to which mens rea runs . |
| 9 | However , dementia is seen as being specific to the elderly age groups . |
| 10 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 11 | Stuart continued to maintain that their was best , being representative of the middle course . |
| 12 | A similar process of topic identification can contribute to the present project , by reinforcing the choice of words whose senses contain subject codes that have been identified as being representative of the overall text . |
| 13 | Hence ΔH becomes dependent on the availability of a suitable hole for a segment to move into , rather than being representative of the potential energy barrier to rotation . |
| 14 | In only one case was a sample obtained from a large lump of rock , these being scarce on the lunar surface . |
| 15 | And the new life , the Christian life , is described concisely and clearly as being different from the old way . |
| 16 | This is because the gonococcus rapidly perishes outside the human body , being dependent on the correct amount of warmth and moisture . |
| 17 | An EEA agreement was also regarded as being dependent on the successful resolution of separate negotiations between the EC and Austria and Switzerland on trans-Alpine road freight . |
| 18 | In contrast , the effect of expenditure appears to be progressive , with cash transfers being sizeable at the lower end . |
| 19 | Being clear about the social purpose of the organisation ( in management jargon , its mission and core values ) , and using this to clarify the nature of its relationships with users and provide an ethical system of values to guide behaviour , is a key task for managers and politicians jointly . |
| 20 | Then you can begin to introduce new ideas gradually , one by one , being willing at the same time to take ‘ no ’ for an answer if they are definitely opposed to change of any kind , since this is their right and must be respected . |
| 21 | By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications . |
| 22 | In the ‘ good pupil ’ list , teachers placed a high priority on ‘ being interested in the opposite sex ’ , and the pupils who appear to deviate from this ( ‘ cissy ’ boys or ‘ tomboy ’ girls ) call up spectres of homosexuality uncomfortable for many teachers . |
| 23 | The investigation will focus on areas of social need which the student identifies as being prevalent in the local community . |
| 24 | Early results of the DSR ( Dream State Reactivity ) — the so called , Night Jerk — research suggest the remarkable possibility that the inhibiting function of the DSD ( Dream Suppression Device ) , sometimes referred to as the ‘ Gateway ’ , may indeed be chemically overridden for periods as great as .073 of a second when the brain is in Dream Mode ; this state being identifiable by the usual REM ( Rapid Eye Movement ) sleep and related EEG brain rhythms . |
| 25 | Mr Rice , a surgeon , stated that PC Charlton had died from pressure to the brain caused by a fracture of the skull , this in turn being consistent with the young constable 's head hitting the kerb during the affray . |
| 26 | The National Curriculum , whilst being consistent with the other government sponsored programmes in its instrumental-vocationalist view , has made provision for the arts through music and art as second tier essential subjects with drama mentioned for possible inclusion with art , music and design in a joint arts option for older pupils . |
| 27 | To summarise , the ‘ absolute income ’ hypothesis may be criticised on two major grounds : ( a ) for not providing an adequate explanation of the different sets of income-consumption data ; ( b ) for not taking into account the influence of wealth and the rate of interest on consumption , and so for not being consistent with the microeconomic analysis of consumer behaviour . |
| 28 | ‘ I mean , ’ said Mounce , ‘ I 'm not going to give you a lot of crap about being pure as the driven snow myself . |
| 29 | Frieden ( 1987 ) makes the crucial distinction between liquid and fixed asset holders — industrial firms being prominent in the latter category . |
| 30 | This unconscious repressed material is in addition to the general unconscious ‘ archaic heritage ’ Le Bon speaks of , and it can vary in different times and places , although Freud does not give explicit examples of this point , being content with the formal delineation of concepts . |