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Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] be " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Conversely , music that is ill-chosen or ill-performed can actually be a hindrance to commitment , as can a service or preaching which is poor .
2	They ride out by companies , whether it 's hunting or hawking there are always enough of them to make for safety .
3	To maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled .
4	The four basic steps on the road back to financial health are : To Maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled .
5	There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure .
6	Self-love does not mean loving only your good points , or loving the person you are becoming , or believing you are perfect .
7	When the principal exemplars of this class are dramatically eliminated the message is clear : middlemanship destroys from within , and the act of passing something on without truly changing or improving it is psychologically nullifying .
8	And judging ads , or deciding which are the good ones , either before or after they have been run , is the subject of the next chapter .
9	Fun tray Children soon learn how to undo buckles on car safety restraints , but tying or turning them is not the solution as they wo n't come undone quickly in an emergency .
10	an elaborately artificial style of writing or speaking which was fashionable in the late 16th and early 17th centuries .
11	Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous .
12	‘ When we 're writing or recording it 's always serious , and then if you went on the road for two months and you were serious you 'd spend your whole life being serious !
13	For instance , when a teacher is speaking or demonstrating it is better not to stand in front of windows .
14	When presenting his petition , a creditor should be owed a sum equal to or exceeding what is known as the bankruptcy level .
15	These may be very simple things , such as ‘ seeing ’ that a friend will be getting in touch shortly , or knowing what is coming in tomorrow 's post .
16	This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births .
17	The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before .
18	And successful treatment is prolonging the lives of affected people — but not dealing with the causes or preventing them being affected in the first place .
19	It might provide a temporary suspension of concern about school work , being bullied , or growing up ( or feeling one is not growing up ) .
20	I agree with you that it 's not right to call your son names , and that slapping him is potentially dangerous .
21	Er , looking through the officer workload ratios in paragraph four , it shows that using what are in honesty fairly crude Home Office measures , we 're really quite well to the national average , that we carry out approximately four hundred and thirty three inspections per officer in a year as opposed to the expected four hundred and eighty two .
22	It 's considered disgusting to use Lilets , because of the idea that the female body itself is disgusting , and that touching yourself is the equivalent of masturbation .
23	As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him .
24	Although driving itself is an extremely recent skill in evolutionary terms , such a link between potential danger and memory may have proved useful in many other situations ( e.g. McGaugh , 1990 ) .
25	A careful read of this book will show that underpinning it is a terrible truth .
26	So , I know it 's a sensitive thing this elderly person 's home , but I would argue that underpinning it is a logic .
27	By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work .
28	We have moved house five times in 12 years and although moving itself is stressful , I think what 's more difficult to cope with is the first month when all the foibles of the new house are discovered .
29	The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him .
30	Exactly , but I mean I rest my case , there 's , when you know their entire story , some of them , it makes you wonder who 's more sinning against than sinning it 's a strange affair .