Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the difficulty with words is probably due to pupils ' problems with the concepts involved and to questions about them being out of context . |
| 2 | Was Slater serious about them being some sort of childhood sweethearts , or even just close enough in age for their parents to think … ? |
| 3 | Do n't believe this crap about them being police . |
| 4 | As with most items that come as a ‘ set ’ , value increases considerably for having every one and more so for them being in fine condition . |
| 5 | A receiver appointed out of court can be either a receiver or an administrative receiver , the difference between them being that the latter is a receiver appointed under a charge which as created was a floating charge . |
| 6 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 7 | I feel compassion for my soul that has been indelibly marked with the rubber stamp of religion and nationality and defiled by innumerable stains , not the least of them being those caused by myself — for we scourge ourselves terribly . |
| 8 | There are many oil and watercolour artists busy at work in all parts of the Highlands just now — several of them being at Iona . ’ |
| 9 | On arriving home at lunch time Ron was confronted with the owner of the purloined petrol , who stated he had been advised to prosecute , but in view of them being ex POWs , he would take no action . |
| 10 | To soften his feelings , however , we learned that the Professor from time to time gave him a fee which far exceeded the amount of the toll … just by the Bridge , turnstiles admitted foot-passengers to pass by different paths , intersecting the large extent of open ground , some of this led to Somers Town , Red Lion Street , etc … here and there , especially at the lower portion of the [ College ] ground , walls were standing , some of them being eight or ten feet high . ’ |
| 11 | All I know is that she never said so , and they 'd have had precious little opportunity , one or other of them being on call for two out of any three nights . ’ |
| 12 | In the 1850s maps of Scotland began to be published , on the scale of 6 inches to one mile , the first of them being of the Lothians area . |
| 13 | This is contrasted with her noisy , untidy , ‘ funky four-storey walk-up ’ on the East Side which she shares with two other girls , one of them being Tyne Daly , the future Mary Beth Lacey of TV 's Cagney And Lacey . |
| 14 | A third possibility connected with the idea that life on Earth originated from space is manifestly a nonsense — except for the fact that some remarkably distinguished scientists have supported it , the most recent of them being Francis Crick , winner with lames Watson and Maurice Wilkins of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in unravelling the structure of DNA , the ‘ double helix ’ . |
| 15 | 1955 : During the year EMI deletes some 7,500 titles , the majority of them being 78 rpm discs . |
| 16 | This , however , was clearly not the case , for the leading figures of the established church shared with their Presbyterian critics a common theological position , all of them being , in the historian Peter Lake 's phrase , ‘ credal ’ predestinarians . |
| 17 | 88 vagrants had been admitted in the two week period , most of them being men . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 19 | But there are new Giants , perhaps the most surprising of them being Joanna Trollope . |
| 20 | The example is of course that of Hume 's early critic Thomas Reid ( 1969 ( 1788 ) ) , and has many counterparts , some of them being members of runs of total coincidences . |
| 21 | The authorised person as principal controls its appointed representatives who are exempted persons within section 3 of the Act of 1986 by virtue of them being representatives whose authorisation may be terminated . |
| 22 | With such a coding system it is possible to establish the primary conditions as follows : 1 ) Inserted state : that code which contains only one space zone , that being ( 0,0,0 ) 2 ) Remote state : that code which does not contain the zone ( 0,0,0 ) 3 ) Transition state : that code which contains more than one zone with one of them being ( 0,0,0 ) . |
| 23 | As the engines and life-support systems are there , there 's no possibility of them being under threat . |
| 24 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 25 | On the basis of the government 's own estimates , all of these changes made 1.9 million pensioners aged 60–79 and 350,000 of those aged 80 and over worse off , the vast majority of them being women ( DHSS , 1985b ) . |
| 26 | Only 9 books of Travels , 36 of Biography ten of them being Boswell 's Samuel Johnson , also Macaulay 's " Clive " and " Warren Hastings . " |
| 27 | Most of the applications , then , have come from prospective landlords ; most but by no means all of them being housing associations . |
| 28 | He added new prebends to the cathedral 's endowment , several of them being bursaries financed from the proceeds of the obsolete papal tax known as Peter 's Pence . |
| 29 | In addition , during the same period almost 3,900 people completed TOPS courses , a substantial proportion of them being in the colleges . |
| 30 | In other words , it could be these unspoken messages which altered the classroom climate sufficiently for girls to do better , rather than the simple fact of them being in a single-sex environment . |