Example sentences of "[being] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laboratory manager , Andy Durrant says : ‘ M&ITS 's Calibration Laboratory is recognised as being on of the leaders in the field of pressure calibration work both in terms of accuracy and facilities , some of which are unique in the UK . |
| 2 | In contrast to the old familiar setting , Alison says this is an exciting new venture for her : ‘ It is being in at the start of something that makes it so interesting . |
| 3 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 4 | Being in with the gang did n't stop you getting hit but it meant that the Corporals might think for one second before lifting their fists Along with Mike the Rhodesian , Marius , Robert from Oberammergau and Chris , there was myself and a Frenchman called Tignet . |
| 5 | As he preceded what he now thought of as a mythical being down to the canteen , he thought about how he 'd once found the sight of Zambia 's adjustments repulsive and unnatural . |
| 6 | Conservative actually being down to the traffic calming . |
| 7 | Some locomotives such as the three Class 55's , one example only worked on one day , with the importance being over to the BR hired fleet . |
| 8 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 9 | If you knew him to be a criminal , you suspected him of being up to no good . |
| 10 | He was the one who 'd complained the most loudly and vociferously about Blend Six not being up to the job , that the burn characteristics were wrong , that the car was running uneven . |
| 11 | Do you think it helps them being up with the ? |
| 12 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 13 | The Rover GTi race will also be closely contested with Mike Whalley from Holmfirth being up among the leading challengers . |
| 14 | Truthfully , I had n't believed in Heavenly Father since my fourth Christmas Eve night , the night when Auntie trod on my brick-truck as she tried to sneak in with my present — a smart Apollo Candy with stabilisers , hand-painted maroon — Pa being out with the Recovery . |
| 15 | ‘ What we must hope and pray for , me boys , ’ he said one night as they dined alone on salad and cold meat , Ellie being out at a concert , ‘ is for a state of some permanence . |
| 16 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 17 | The second sense emerges as we follow his explanation of how the civil state would come into being out of a state of nature , by the making of contracts . |
| 18 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 19 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 20 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 21 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 22 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 23 | He retorted : ‘ He 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and It 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running , especially with this group developing so closely . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Of course he 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and it 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running . ’ |
| 25 | The French goal ace had feared being out of the game for two months after hobbling out of the 3-0 first leg defeat with a damaged hamstring . |
| 26 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 27 | She felt guilty at how much she enjoyed being out of the house , even out of the village . |
| 28 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
| 29 | Back in the warm , silken night air , beneath the massive arc of bright stars , she breathed in greedily , revelling in the blessed contrast , the giddy relief of being out of the cave . |
| 30 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |