Being的用法

在英语的学习中经常会碰见Being，然而我一直被它所困扰，查了很多语法书、问了很多专家，始终没有得到有效、彻底的解决。下面是我阅读各种英文著作中搜集到、令我痛苦万分的句子，希望各位能够帮忙，分析Being在句中中所充当语法成分，非常感谢！

 

①.Finance will retain the unhappy distinction of being the only major industry where technological innovation may do more harm than good.

 

②.Marriage should be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and the handsomeness of being a calm continuing inevitable benefactor to the other.

 

③.He is now on so many committees that the idea of being in any meeting for more than ten minutes makes him want to cry.

 

④.She seemed to take a special interest in me;I suppose,because I was young and helpess,and away from my parents,besides being the youngest pupil in the school.

 

⑤.Yes, I stayed. I stayed, because every time you threw up brick on the head or said I smelled, it hurts. But it could never hurt more than I did everyday in my life just being me.

 

⑥.I was never bored because I was never being boring or something similar.

 

⑦.Ironically, it was this same complexity that prevented the Ming government from being able to adapt to changes in society and eventually led to its decline.

 

⑧.That accounts for some of the questions here, about how concretely does me being here help them find a job, pay for their home, send their kids to college, live what we call the American Dream.

20.We were far from being in condition for a physical examination but that was the way we started the day and it took a long time.

 

⑨.I laid my hand on him,but immediately took it off again,instinct not being wholly overcome. 

 

句①中的being是否可以省略，变为:"Finance will retain the unhappy distinction of the only major industry where technological innovation may do more harm than good.",意思似乎也不变。如果不能省略，那么原因是什么？