Example sentences of "[prep] being the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm , incidentally , after being the man of the match in Trinidad , took 0 for 188 here , partly at least because he persisted in bowling short whereas before he had pitched the ball up . |
| 2 | After being the man who 'd sell his sister , he was about to become the man who 'd lost his wife . |
| 3 | Another worker — off sick after being the victim of a hit-and-run accident — was also made redundant by the bank , the NatWest , according to the main banking union . |
| 4 | Outlining prospects for extending Aberdeen 's role as an oil support centre to cover areas beyond the North Sea , he predicted : ‘ We are heading towards being the lead city in the northern arc . ’ |
| 5 | Well , I 've had enough of being the wife who does n't understand you ! |
| 6 | In late May the Sudanese media began to accuse Saudi Arabia of being the SPLA 's main financial backer and supplier of weapons , and on June 11 it was reported that when army forces destroyed an SPLA camp at Kit ( about 45 km south-west of Torit ) , they had found " a huge quantity of military equipment manufactured in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia " . |
| 7 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 8 | Experience the limitlessness of being the sky … . |
| 9 | The first is that we are not so tempted to think of the word ‘ afternoon ’ as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object , as we are to think of ‘ pain' as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object . |
| 10 | The first is that we are not so tempted to think of the word ‘ afternoon ’ as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object , as we are to think of ‘ pain' as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object . |
| 11 | He and I were present at the recent opening of its new school building , for which I had the pleasure of being the Minister responsible for making available the necessary resources . |
| 12 | Right-making or obligatoriness-making characteristics include that of being the keeping of a promise , being a case of truth telling , of gratitude , or reducing bad or evil , of promoting good , of promoting knowledge . |
| 13 | Well it appears I am now elevated to the glorious role of being the contact point for the Bard of Sweden . |
| 14 | I did want to lose weight so much for it , but have had very little success so will have to get used to the idea of being the back-end-of-a-bus in comparison to Heather . |
| 15 | A toddler who learns that a fit of anger or temper brings her mother 's anxious ministrations , or the limelight of being the centre of attention for a roomful of people , will work herself up into more tempers . |
| 16 | Her cheeks were already aglow from a combination of the heat and the exhilaration of being the centre of attention , and this had lent an extra , youthful radiance to her beauty . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't like the academia of being the physician and I thought that I was far too clumsy to be a surgeon , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Sexual intimacy can also be deceptive , suggesting a short cut to love and closeness , instead of being the climax of a whole environment of happiness in marriage . |
| 19 | This house , your money , the glamour of being the subject of the Academy 's most popular portrait — ’ |
| 20 | Bovelander wears the unofficial tag of being the sport 's top penalty corner exponent — no goalkeeper likes to face his thunderous shots — but in the game between Ireland and Holland earlier this month , it was van der Honoret who took the strikes and ended up with a hat-trick . |
| 21 | Although given the honour of being the opening story of Doctor Who 's second season this serial was originally scheduled to be part of the first . |
| 22 | I like the idea of being the daughter of a theatrical landlady , but this enterprise provides my most startling and problematic memories . |
| 23 | They are redundant , but not because the world can be described in terms of eternal " propositions which are true or false in virtue of being the propositions they are , but because they advertise certain claims which can equally successfully be conveyed implicitly , viz. by asserting the proposition or its negation , as the case may be . |
| 24 | I am absolutely certain that such would be the very reverse of being the case , and that it would prove to be a particularly cheerful looking building . |
| 25 | For reasons which he could not reason — ( perhaps the place had seized his spirit ) — an undeniable cheeky lilt of carelessness , the rapture — long thought lost — of being the man he truly was , threatened to break through the ranks of plot , to disrupt the strategy for survival . |
| 26 | Although the set-up with The Daintees is basically the matey-blokes-next-door scenario , Stephenson deals the unique card of being the star-next-door . |
| 27 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 28 | Your client who is having to pay for the action would otherwise find himself in the position of being the loser financially despite an order on liability . |
| 29 | The only reputation which worried Richard Branson was that of being the head of a record company which looked increasingly out of touch , out of time . |
| 30 | Mrs. Proudie is the wife of the new Bishop of Barchester , in ‘ Barchester Towers ’ , and she immediately gives the impression of being the head of the household , and perhaps being rather arrogant , which view is borne out by Trollope 's choice of surname . |