Example sentences of "being [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , the blades are already being depressed at the rear of the disc by the stick deflection ( Fig. 4.4 ) and the tailboom is being suddenly forced upwards by striking the ground . |
| 2 | Therefore this was a battle now as he understood a battle , however mangled beforehand by being half-decided at a distance . |
| 3 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 4 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 5 | In contrast , the effect of expenditure appears to be progressive , with cash transfers being sizeable at the lower end . |
| 6 | Then you can begin to introduce new ideas gradually , one by one , being willing at the same time to take ‘ no ’ for an answer if they are definitely opposed to change of any kind , since this is their right and must be respected . |
| 7 | So is that being as you were n't being assertive at the time |
| 8 | The latest United Nations report on the state of the environment in Africa says that virtually the whole continent is now being deforested at a rapid and accelerating pace . |
| 9 | The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |
| 10 | This signal , we believe , is a diffusing chemical , a morphogen , which is released by the polarizing region , so the concentration is highest at the posterior margin and the concentration decreases away from the polarizing region , being lowest at the anterior margin . |
| 11 | Once , a long time ago , Henry could recall being alarmed at the emptiness , the ease , the sheer possibility offered by Saturday . |
| 12 | The bone is heavily digested after breakage , with the digestion being heaviest at the broken ends of the shafts on the right . |
| 13 | Media use also varied during the week , being heaviest at the weekend . |
| 14 | During the later stages of accretion , at the very least , the outer 100 km or so of the Moon melted , large areas being molten at the same time . |
| 15 | ‘ We have to start being meaner at the back . |
| 16 | It was more like being present at a seance than at a lecture . |
| 17 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 18 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 19 | He had telephoned Uncle Vernon before midnight to explain that Rose Lipman had insisted on Stella being present at a small celebration given by the Board of Governors . |
| 20 | According to the party statutes a quorum depended not on a simple majority of central committee members being present at a plenary session but on all the LCY 's constituent republican and provincial Leagues of Communists ( LCs ) being represented . |
| 21 | Five years ago the idea of planes like these being present at an RAF show would have been unthinkable . |
| 22 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 23 | Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors : |
| 24 | First , the department has a role at the executive-director level by being present at the board 's review of the plans from the business units and by highlighting where these plans do not adequately address certain strategic issues . |
| 25 | I used to avoid being present at the killings . |
| 26 | Councillor recorded his pleasure at being present at the Social , together with appreciation of the new centre , nearing completion , in Hemlington . |
| 27 | Thank you for your enquiry yesterday regarding a representative from the Social Work Department being present at the Tenants ' Association meeting on Monday 30 August 1993 at St John Vianney School . |
| 28 | I 'm being foul at the moment . |
| 29 | In ( 22 ) the suggestion is that the occurrence of being alone at the bar was not only unexpected but undesirable . |
| 30 | Boivin/Hoyer were leading Andriev/Haralambie , clear of the rest of the field , the Trains being 7th at the head of the third group at this stage . |