Example sentences of "[being] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being right on the coast , there are special considerations . |
| 2 | The red switch there being right on the end when you depress that the play switch goes down as well . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 4 | Similarly she was disappointed by the lack of any ‘ political arena ’ in which to discuss work , and found the level of debate and critique poor , the emphasis being rather on the production of high quality commercial work . |
| 5 | Weight , however , is slightly on the left foot , short grasp of club with both wrists at angle to the shaft , the left hand being rather over the shaft ( to right ) ; take the club almost straight back from the ball with club head lifted but slightly . |
| 6 | The similarities are almost laughable , even to the extent of the " Building Stones " of the basal Keuper near Birmingham , England , being remarkably like the sandstone which provided the " brownstone " houses of much of old New York City . |
| 7 | Obviously he built up to ‘ Space Oddity ’ being somewhere in the middle of the set and about half way through the set , he dismissed the band . |
| 8 | The unexpected feature of the quantum world is that the state resulting from this combination does not correspond to the electron being somewhere in the middle between " here " and " there " but rather to its having a certain probability to be found " here " and a certain probability to be found " there " . |
| 9 | Our gangs have varied between two and ten , usually being somewhere in the middle . |
| 10 | When the proposed changes were made known , advertised , and er members of the public and other bodies were able to make representations with respect to them , site D forty was shown as being additionally within the village . |
| 11 | He seemed a different being altogether from the man she had served . |
| 12 | This suggests that make expresses antecedent causation , since it evokes a process of causation giving rise to a state of affairs that comes into being only at the end of the process . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | . And of course , being so in the back seat they sort of when they , they she |
| 16 | We met mainly at meals , which I enjoyed , not only because I liked her and could still indulge myself foolishly and talk with her about our special patient in Marcus , but also as Daisy , being so near the end of her training , had several friends amongst the staff nurses . |
| 17 | A perverse testimony to the feeling that most Romanians had of being constantly under the scrutiny of an all-embracing network of human and electronic observers were published by an official Romanian journal in the summer of 1988 . |
| 18 | It was only by being constantly on the scene , as a neutral , that we seemed to me to move at all . |
| 19 | This in turn causes far more crack-ups than the usual pressures of being constantly in the public eye , a symptom that has now been identified as charity-fatigue . |
| 20 | I had to make him believe there was a good reason for my being constantly in the club . ’ |
| 21 | Only at the end did his voice thicken : otherwise brimming self-confidence , he overcame lack of sleep , the exhaustion that comes from travelling 8,000 miles in 21 days , and the pressure of being constantly in the spotlight . |
| 22 | And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Conservative actually being down to the traffic calming . |
| 25 | I am worried to death , what with my three sons being away in the Army . |
| 26 | They included , roughly speaking , the earth 's London face being away from the sun for a time , the absence of any light source like that of the sun , in the right place at the right time , and conditions having to do with the behaviour of light . |
| 27 | Many slimmers make this an excuse for not sticking to the diet , but I find it much easier being away from the kitchen and the kettle ! |
| 28 | So we that meant , say , that I instead of me being away from the property for about two and a half hours , taking the turf back Caffer Cliss we saved all that time . |
| 29 | One danger of taking the downward spiral of self-imposed isolation is agoraphobia , the fear of being away from the security of the home . |
| 30 | If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out . |