Example sentences of "being [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , these 63 centres expect to register over 2,400 students and trainees for the general SVQs , with the largest numbers being for the awards in care ( over 900 ) and hospitality ( around 800 ) . |
| 2 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 3 | The computer generated imagery and the reproduction of the various different airport locations , really did create an atmosphere of being behind the controls of a 737 . |
| 4 | Just being in the arms of this unique person , whom SHe 'd never been absolutely sure SHe could hook , effectively wiped the unpleasant memory from hir mind for the night . |
| 5 | Any asset sale which is not commercially justifiable as being in the interests of the vendor as a whole will , on the face of it , be a breach of the duties of the directors of the vendor . |
| 6 | To mark the hierarchy of the Court came also a restoration of the entrées , the petites entrées being in the apartments of the Empress . |
| 7 | But the cells in a pack of wolves do not have the same genes , nor do they have the same chance of being in the cells of sub-packs that are budded off . |
| 8 | Whereas in Scotland over 36 per cent of graduates obtained a pass , ordinary or general degree in 1986 , the figure for the UK as a whole was only 12.7 per cent , with the majority of pass degrees in England being in the fields of medicine , dentistry or veterinary science ( Source : USR ) . |
| 9 | Take a look at the two photographs ( above ) and this will equally convince you that since being in the hands of an expert it really has become my ‘ crowning head of glory ’ . |
| 10 | There were 140 parcels , of which only forty-seven were occupied by the head tenants , the remainder being in the hands of subtenants . |
| 11 | The astonishing range of innovations made by this tireless giant of a man gave contemporary noblemen — never mind humbler folk — the sense of being in the hands of some alien , elemental force . |
| 12 | A truer parallel is the archaic temple of Apollo at Delphi , with its battle in the west and on the east the frontal chariot flanked by kouroi and korai , a very still composition , the only action being in the animal-groups at the corners . |
| 13 | It was like being in the entrails of a glacier . |
| 14 | that the plaintiffs can not be heard to say that they have acted dishonestly when an honest construction can be put upon their conduct by treating their acceptance and retention of the money as being upon the terms on which it was offered . |
| 15 | The fact remains that , quite apart from being outside the capabilities of smaller companies , losses still have to be funded from the organisation 's own resources . |
| 16 | But being outside the pressures of life in the city he has time to think , and to formulate his thoughts on all the issues of the day in the form of letters to the editors of the more influential newspapers . |
| 17 | The notion of marginality carries with it the sense of dualism , since it implies being on the boundaries of urban and rural society , but not integrated into either . |
| 18 | There was a series of scholarly exhibitions , but again , the main focus being on the pictures in the collection , and against that background I think the 1980s were a wonderful period . |
| 19 | The older , declining industries were nationalized , the Beveridge plans enacted , a National Health Service started and full employment maintained , the emphasis all being on the results of these policies , on their effects on people 's lives . |
| 20 | Throughout its life of eight years , myth building encouraged people to think of the unit as being on the margins of the organization . |
| 21 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 22 | The Loughborough research shows that librarians do n't have to feel apologetic about being on the margins of school action . |
| 23 | Thus yellow and roundness might be intrinsic properties of a yellow ball as being among the properties in virtue of the possession of which another ball might be exactly like it . |
| 24 | In February 1990 the High Court dismissed a habeus corpus application on behalf of Vincent Cheng , one of the Catholic lay workers detained under the ISA in 1987 accused of being among the ringleaders of the Marxist conspiracy [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 25 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 26 | By any other name , it smelled as sweet to the eager school librarian , and this paragraph will remind many British readers of the arguments a decade later as to whether " library " , " resource centre " or " library resource centre " ( among many other terms ) best described the new organization called into being by the demands of resource-based learning and new curriculum projects . |