Example sentences of "[noun] being [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember the British warships being in the flow in the first ? |
| 2 | erm I feel much safer with that that the erm than our schools being under the control of the Department of Education , who will be very difficult to influence . |
| 3 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 4 | The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary . |
| 5 | Their productivity is low , fixed carbon being of the order of 10 mg m -2 of snow per day ; colour differences are due to different stages in development of the cells , and their sudden , often dramatic appearance during warm spells is more probably due to progressive loss of covering snow than to rapid proliferation ( Fogg , 1967 ) . |
| 6 | Right at the end of the street was the wall of a very old building , the entrance being around the corner in Barnards Cross . |
| 7 | Further corrections will have to be made to the grid references on the Enumeration District and Output Area level files ; some grid references are absent altogether , and others are incorrect , resulting in a number of Enumeration Districts being in the sea ! |
| 8 | It was a shame about the er the door opener not working correctly subsequently er I discovered the incident with the the other team going into the other bedroom and er a young girl being in the bed that was missed and erm . |
| 9 | Whatever they say about the law being on the landlord 's side , if they wo n't go , the law wo n't make them . |
| 10 | Within a few days each hole is teeming with worms , with a large proportion being on the pebble . |
| 11 | And she 's had rats under that shed it ai n't that long ago she said , she said she had them so I mean I ca n't see anybody with an ounce of common sense letting a chicken being on the ground , ground |
| 12 | In terms of hard cash the 1964 pie would have cost £250,000 but in fact there was never more than £1,000 in the bank , the sponsorship being in the form of services and goods rather than money . |
| 13 | Often it makes sense to divide a territory into segments radiating outwards , with the salesperson 's home being at the centre . |
| 14 | A typical court order ( in this case the matrimonial home being in the husband 's sole name ) might be as follows : It is ordered that the Respondent do transfer the property known as 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre , to himself and the Petitioner ( or to other trustees ) to hold the same as to 60% for himself and as to 40% for the Petitioner . |
| 15 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 16 | When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition . |
| 17 | It seems that Humphrey had several favourite places where he viewed the progress of the works , one such place being between the weighbridge and the steel works . |
| 18 | Each reflects something of the period and quality of the music , the period being of the time when written by the composer or when presented as a ballet and the quality being that inspired in the choreographer by the composer . |
| 19 | There are 8–10 arm spines , the dorsalmost 3–4 are small , thin and spine-like the remaining gradually become larger towards the ventral side with the largest spines being in the middle of the series . |
| 20 | My kit being near the casualty ( by now conscious ) , I thought it may have been mistakenly picked up . |
| 21 | When he was asked his name , Gallacher replied with typical arrogance , ‘ If you do n't know me , you 've no business being on the field ! |
| 22 | A man who can not base his decisions on precedent and logic has no business being on the bench ( a premise that Justice Brennan never forgot ) . |
| 23 | First there is the fact that the object chosen in sexual activity is a surrogate object ; a real desire being for the parent , or sibling , usually of the opposite sex . |
| 24 | cats and dogs being in the country there , were always about , the cat starts to go out just the same as the dogs did , they did n't and they did n't , even when we inherited that old , old tom cat in Sussex , he stayed with us and he , he mangy old thing was n't he , in one of the stables never accursed to me to . |
| 25 | Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away . |
| 26 | He is ideally bred for the job being by the champion sire , Deep Run , from a granddam , Matchboard , who won 11 chases and five point-to-points . |
| 27 | Another such example is to be found in ‘ no bird-song , no , nor bough/breaking with honey buds , ’ which enforces the idea of nature being beneath the power of the train itself . |
| 28 | Yes with with the membership being on the doorstep , we do get to know them a lot better . |
| 29 | ‘ And she spoke of the unicorn being in the forest , but that , I think , was by accident . |
| 30 | One interesting fact was that the extension is supported by over 100 piles , a consequence of the building , as a whole being on the site of an old rubbish tip ! |