Example sentences of "[being] [adv] of the " 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 | Nor is there any suggestion that a disagreement with his venerable friend might have been responsible ; Herr Sanders tells us that he and the young gentleman were on terms of the greatest amity , their relations being always of the most cordial . |
| 3 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 4 | They seem to lay claim to being purely of the mind 's eye , a manifestation of pure objectivity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 8 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 14 | She felt guilty at how much she enjoyed being out of the house , even out of the village . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Time was when a priest used to put it in the parish mag if he intended being out of the parish for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 19 | And also given the nature of the kind of people who want to wield authority over others they ca n't bear being out of the limelight , it gives them one last throw . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 21 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 22 | Whereas in Crime and Punishment and in the novels which follow he can , though his narrow glee over being ahead of the fact is unworthy of his art and of what ‘ idealism ’ and ‘ deeper realism ’ intend . |
| 23 | Accordingly , particulars were interpreted as complexes of qualities and regarded as being essentially of the same logical type as single qualities ; with the implication that any significant statement about either is necessarily significant , although , it is conceded , " probably not true " , 8 about the other . |