What is "there being"

Usage examples of "there being".

But after a while, as the rain gave no sign of ceasing, and they had a mind to be at Florence that same day, they borrowed of the husbandman two old cloaks of Romagnole cloth, and two hats much the worse for age (there being no better to be had), and resumed their journey.

One of Kahn's speculations had been that the natural form of human government was empire, and the natural tendency of an empire was to expand, there being no natural limit to that expansion save running up against another empire of equal or greater strength.

It would take, of course, the area of about a million pinheads because, instead of there being just the 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia, there are 24 million volumes.

Most of them were content to repeat with extra emphasis what they had said the previous evening, there being no new points to bring up.

I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money.

I assert that, so far from there being any exaggeration in any particular, that in no instance has the half of the truth been told, nor could it be, save by an inspired pen.

Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr.

After which, there being set, in divers places about the little vale, beds which the discreet seneschal had duly furnished and equipped within and without with store of French coverlets, and other bedgear, all, that were so minded, had leave of the king to go to sleep, and those that cared not to sleep might betake them, as each might choose, to any of their wonted diversions.

In the mean time the doctor assured himself of the presence of a sufficient quantity of gas in the mixing-tank to feed the cylinder, if necessary, without there being any need of resorting for some time to the Buntzen battery.

Dayne, if you'd stayed there being polite to them, they would have kept throwing questions at you until you fell down from exhaustion.

When the viewscreen reemerged, a man was sitting there being interviewed by Underwood.

If there'd been any doubts about there being an active base on Gehenna, the presence of a newly-installed Alliance minefield would've dispelled them.

But the city was left almost in ruins -- not that the King had commanded it to be destroyed, but that his troops, in order to make fires for cooking, had torn down so many houses that it was a great grief to see -- and this was occasioned by there being in the country a dearth of firewood, which comes to them from a great distance.