Example sentences of "[prep] being [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Greener was appointed chairman of Guinness PLC in January 1993 , after being chief executive from January 1992 . |
| 2 | Northern Ireland 's World Cup downfall really started with that opening match against the Lithuanians at Windsor Park in April ‘ 92 when , after being two goals ahead , they went walkabout and Lithuania hit back to draw . |
| 3 | ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’ |
| 4 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |
| 5 | ( In 1971 , Arsenal won the Double after being six points behind leaders Leeds United at the time of the semi-final . ) |
| 6 | I was n't Marti Caine at that stage , I was Zoe Bond , but only after being Sunny Smith for three weeks . |
| 7 | At the end of the year , or at any time , there is a small selection of pieces that represent stages in their progress towards being successful writers , including types of writing they 're best at and types they have more trouble with . |
| 8 | ‘ Before training , Barry called a meeting and said the chairman had accused us of being greedy bastards and blamed us for the fine . |
| 9 | The Midland Bank , as the major sponsor , is paying £20,000 for the privilege of being two corners in the game , and having its name and logo on all the notes used in the game . |
| 10 | In a few specimens this papillae may be partially divided giving the appearance of being two papillae . |
| 11 | We can not accuse teachers of being sole agents of reproduction : they may themselves be considered deviant by the pupils or parents if they try to encourage domestic skills in boys or engineering orientations in girls . |
| 12 | They have the reputation of being fearsome warriors . |
| 13 | Deer ruin their chances of being awesome beasts , providing a rare and special experience to those who spot them , by standing in massive herds all along the verge of the A9 looking glum , and grouse lose points for frightening you half to death by crashing out of the heather from under your feet screeching like banshees . |
| 14 | In the late 1980s we now see town planning and architecture — shapers of the housing environment — charged with professional disrepute : once the great hope of being effective providers of an environment of social purpose , the two professions have been derided for giving the public the wrong thing , and in the wrong manner . |
| 15 | Berg 's Wozzeck is one forerunner , but Britten and Mrs Piper deserve the accolade of being unconscious innovators . |
| 16 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 17 | We fall into the trap of being efficient technicians of life , starved of the personal dimension of being ‘ mercy-full ’ . |
| 18 | I have no intention of being chief cook and bottle-washer for the fortnight that you 're around . ’ |
| 19 | Jo and Tina were chauffeured every day to a small exclusive private school for the cosseted daughters of those Bel Air families who valued high moral standards and hard work more than the pretence of being regular folks . |
| 20 | I supposed mainly that , instead of being passive victims of our own reality , we could , through utilising this technique , become masters of it . |
| 21 | When we were young we all dreamed of being assistant professionals . |
| 22 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 23 | But no doubt some of the original Hooligans — ‘ instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried ’ as Baden-Powell had somewhat indelicately described the goal of reclamation — were buried alongside them , remembered only in the writings and memoirs of youth workers which act as their tombstones . |
| 24 | Both have been designed to meet fully the requirements a set out by the County Council and we 're quite happy , we can actually meet that requirement of being one kilometre from Flaxton , in fact we greatly exceed that distance , despite and that is a on the design of a larger new settlement than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 25 | Barthes 's was a very modern mind but he would have liked the idea of being one day accepted into this tiny pantheon of local literary notables . |
| 26 | In a sense we were still in the aftermath of being one person . |
| 27 | He attributes this to the ‘ I know a little man ’ syndrome , but one gets the feeling that he is a little weary of being other people 's secret . |
| 28 | ACTORS dressed up as Vikings for a Welsh S4C documentary were challenged by local people in Swansea and accused of being New Age travellers . |
| 29 | Another analogy is with the evolutionary biologist 's notion of a ‘ ring-species ’ : a population A , of some species , interbreeds with a neighbouring population B , B with C , C with D , and so on , round the world , until population X is reached , whose territory adjoins that of the original A. But A and X do not interbreed : they give every appearance of being distinct species . |
| 30 | Some polymers , instead of being uniform chains of one small molecule like ethylene , are chains of two or more different kinds of small molecule . |