Example sentences of "[being] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Rover GTi race will also be closely contested with Mike Whalley from Holmfirth being up among the leading challengers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Byas hit 80 before being out in the final over and White was left unbeaten on 52 , the fifth-wicket pair smashing their way to 119 in 15 overs . |
| 9 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
| 10 | Indeed , the two M boys themselves were not totally happy at first at having these initially undisciplined children visiting their home and generally being around on a regular basis . |
| 11 | They are one of the earliest known insects , fossils being around from the Carboniferous period , and today there are some 4,000 species worldwide . |