Example sentences of "being [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 2 | At best , a family might be given two shillings weekly if , after being willing to submit to a very strict investigation into their financial position ( this was called a ‘ Means Test ’ ) they were found to be at starvation level . |
| 3 | It was agreed that a pedestrian tunnel , the Tower subway , should be driven under the Thames ‘ as a sample of the system ’ , but the memory of the extreme difficulties of Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] in completing the Thames tunnel resulted in none of the contractors approached by Barlow being willing to tender for the work . |
| 4 | For her and others like her it is a question of wanting it sufficiently , being prepared to put in the work and not expecting concessions because they are women . |
| 5 | Dr Mikulas Huba , head of the Slovak Parliamentary Committee for Nature and Environmental Protection , has accused the government of being prepared to sell off the entire Tatra range to Americans without formal authority . |
| 6 | His language was often alarming , not least to America 's allies : he spoke of meeting Soviet aggressive with " massive retaliation " ( that is , nuclear weapons ) , and the need , in diplomacy , to have the nerve for " brinkmanship " ( being prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war ) . |
| 7 | In being prepared to lend to the discount houses or to buy bills from them , the Bank of England is the ultimate guarantor of sufficient liquidity in the monetary system and is known as lender of last resort . |
| 8 | Banks , being prepared to operate with a lower liquidity ratio , were only too pleased to supply the credit being demanded . |
| 9 | The bench table is fitted with a very useful horizontal angleguide which can be locked into any position in front of the disc , or it can be locked at the desired angle while being free to slide in a slot parallel with the disc face . |
| 10 | Stage 3 : A semi-open prison or low security gaol , the inmate being free to move about the grounds and working outside the facility during the day . |
| 11 | Many customers like being free to move around the store |
| 12 | This resulted in not only booksellers being free to pitch for the school business , but publishers too . |
| 13 | ‘ You were right , of course , about it being impossible to carry through the fantasy look and dress Therese as a fairy heroine . |
| 14 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 15 | He was rather an unambitious man as regards fame and position , being content to remain with the firm of Boulton & Watt until his death . |
| 16 | Whether he wins or not , I shall remember him for his fearlessness , for not being content to run like a solitary god between the gunpowder hills of Lanzarote , but for running in the race instead . |
| 17 | The Pope and clergy were criticised for instigating men to refuse full allegiance to the civil power and for being unwilling to submit to the jurisdiction of civil courts . |
| 18 | We therefore revised BP 's financial strategy to adapt to a lower growth rate and a more conservative series of margin assumptions , which for planning purposes we took as being unlikely to improve in the early nineties . |
| 19 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 20 | The main problem was that if the new devolved NHS services were to replace the asylums ' treatment , then a structure of long-term support would be needed for those who , albeit now being able to live in the community rather than vegetate as long-term inpatients , still mostly required structured day care or home visiting or occupation . |
| 21 | Being able to dispense with the services of an interpreter is a big incentive to fluency . |
| 22 | True physical fitness is something more than being able to cope with the stresses and strains of everyday life . |
| 23 | As a dental assistant , being able to cope with the dangers of the deep has its advantages . |
| 24 | 4 not being able to cope in an emergency , e.g. a haemorrhage or cardiac arrest . |
| 25 | What chance was there of this little community , riddled with prejudice and of limited intelligence , being able to discriminate between the strength of one argument and the strength of another ? |
| 26 | British historians are especially fortunate in being able to draw on the oldest tradition of popular autobiography in the world . |
| 27 | 3D means being able to draw in the x , y and z planes . |
| 28 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 29 | ‘ One of the most difficult matches we have ever been asked to play , ’ confided Sir Alf Ramsey in June , 1973 , his apprehension understandable despite being able to call upon the vast experience of Bobby Moore , Alan Ball and Martin Peters . |
| 30 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |