Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most researchers start from the assumption that it is morally wrong to conduct research on people who do not know that they are being studied , and will therefore tell them at least that they are writing a book , even if they are not wholly frank about what the book is going to be about . |
| 2 | Did the children know that they were being studied , and did the teachers know that they were taking part in such an experiment ? |
| 3 | Did the pupils know that they were being studied , did the teachers know that they were being studied and did the teachers know that they were taking part in an educational experiment ? |
| 4 | Did the pupils know that they were being studied , did the teachers know that they were being studied and did the teachers know that they were taking part in an educational experiment ? |
| 5 | Just to avoid confusion , the slave machine pops up a small banner at the top of the screen to let you know that it is being controlled from the other machine . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've tackled it head on by letting the main character know that he is being written about . |
| 7 | Rarely has it ever been recorded that a fatality has occurred from snakebite during the festival ; the Cobras appear to know that they are being revered . |
| 8 | What was useful was to know that you were being taken to him . ’ |
| 9 | Ken was disturbed to know that he was being watched during a live performance , even by a man who was providing an audience out of sheer admiration . |
| 10 | Any increase in C leads to an equal decrease in T , ie. if the superior retains more ‘ control ’ or authority , the subordinate will immediately recognise that he is being trusted less . |
| 11 | Although groin guards are mandatory for all male competitors , referees have no way of checking that they are being worn . |
| 12 | What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible . |
| 13 | John Batstone , secretary of the Teesside-based North-East Coast Pension Campaign Committee , said : ‘ We hope the weight of pressure will make British Steel realise that they are being rather immoral in disposing of the surplus , which they inherited from the days of nationalisation . |
| 14 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 15 | Here he was surprised and a little frightened to find that he was being carried further out to sea . |
| 16 | She nodded , disappointed that he was being so matter-of-fact , and , pulling herself together , she stared out of the window as the headlights shone on the hedges and fields of the countryside they were passing through . |
| 17 | It is reported that they are being given Namibian identity cards to enable them to vote for pro-South African parties in the elections . |
| 18 | Employed workers , who found that they were being compelled to maintain their unemployed relatives out of their meagre wages joined with the unemployed . |
| 19 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 20 | Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit . |
| 21 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 22 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 23 | Huge issue th th the Scottish Opera and the cultural organizations do n't , do n't think that I 'm being very left-wing when I made my points Peter . |
| 24 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 25 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 26 | She realised that what was being said about Michael must be true . |
| 27 | A long , long , unutterably tedious wait in the lint-filled darkness , until at last I felt the tension of the crane and realised that I was being lowered into the hold . |
| 28 | I looked up and saw a big-ribbed canopy of light pink and white descending over me , and the next moment I felt myself drawn downward , feet first , and I realised that I was being swallowed by a whale . |
| 29 | The man looked around him again , as if he expected that they were being watched . |
| 30 | Once more , Jaq surmised that he was being tested , his every action scrutinized by a cunning , manipulative intelligence . |