Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 500ft Demetrius was driven ashore and broke its back on the rocks in a Force 11 gale as it was being towed to port the week before Christmas . |
| 2 | Ink is not needed because the LCD display shows the script as it is being written . |
| 3 | Search Sheets for each Division of the Register of Sasines are in the custody of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland as they are being updated continually and are consulted by his staff in the registration of every deed presented for registration . |
| 4 | They stood by while the policeman asked for help as he was being punched . ’ |
| 5 | The research aims to bring out the character of the efficiency-effectiveness debate and the nature of accountable management as it is being developed through the Financial Management Initiative , the efficiency strategy and associated developments . |
| 6 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 7 | The completion of a second Soviet designed nuclear plant , under construction on the Danube , is now in question as it is being built in an area prone to earthquakes . |
| 8 | The ethnographic investigator spends time observing the lives as they are being led , piecing together patterns of activity and elements of conversations . |
| 9 | The students were rapidly becoming the most vocal critics of reform as it was being implemented by the government led by Deng Xiaoping . |
| 10 | But I also think that er the Community Charge as it is being brought in is probably being brought in too sharply which means that it is n't actually taking account of some of the marginal cases where people are going to face a very steep increase in Community Charge bill , er and the Community Charge itself is rather a blunt instrument . |
| 11 | ‘ No-one should be fooled by the small fluctuation in this month 's unemployment figures as they are being claimed by the Government themselves as possibly erratic . |
| 12 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 13 | One of the most flattering things ever said to me was by a teacher who said , ‘ Kinnock , I 'd like to call you lazy but nobody who 's as big a nuisance as you are is lazy . ’ |
| 14 | POLICE are hunting a mugger who tipped a baby out of a pushchair as it was being pushed by a 64-year-old woman . |
| 15 | They were equating ( and as Saunders points out this was later to lead to confusion ) Mead 's concern with the relations between self and society , with these relations as they were being constructed in specific geographical contexts such as Chicago or one of Chicago 's zones . |
| 16 | The injured included a 24-year-old woman who had to be resuscitated from a heart attack as she was being flown to hospital by helicopter . |
| 17 | Using a medium tension and hanging a weight on the scarf as it is being knitted will make it curl more easily . |
| 18 | Naturally , amongst other things that we took out into the desert with us was the long-established tea swindle , which we all subscribed to , It was considered a most heinous offence if pupil or anyone else taxied within the proximity of the tea swindle and the great volume of sand engulfed those who were engaged in making the tea — indeed , getting any sand anywhere near the brew as it was being prepared was considered a serious offence . |
| 19 | For example , in the case of a new piece of computer equipment , the law of confidence is all important in the early stages as it is being developed and evaluated . |
| 20 | But the reason as it were was to address some of the issues er that Professor Lock has raised . |
| 21 | To wind it round the world as it was being produced , the traffic police would object . |
| 22 | The company 's Tokyo bureau chief , David Butts , twice entered the press club room — on May 21st and May 24th — and demanded to see the results as they were being put in the cubby-holes . |
| 23 | This would appeal greatly to the crowd as they are being given a reasonable , simple reason to why Caesar was killed , because he was out for himself . |
| 24 | The first two can be seen as being derived from history , both shared and private , while the third is an attempt to come to terms with and respond to current realities as they are being experienced . |
| 25 | They want to engage in as mature a fashion as possible in realities as they are being experienced in order to take and make their own authority for their existence without being caught in the many traps for immaturity which are open to them . |
| 26 | They will perform a ‘ live ’ density measurement of the oil as it is being loaded onto tankers — instead of having the laboratory do a sample test after loading is completed — and temperature measurement will carried out in the oil stream , a more accurate method than the current measurement at the loading headers . ’ |
| 27 | Luke 's words and their possible implication slammed belatedly into her brain as she was being introduced to the entertainment editor of a local newspaper , but natural incredulity dismissed them as more talk , just words carelessly plucked from an inadequate language . |
| 28 | Nigel is the regular driver of No. 7 although he is not likely to be on the footplate this year as it is being rebuilt . |
| 29 | It is recommended that module names should be reserved for all software as it is being created . |
| 30 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |