Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I saw that the hills were my legs , and that my head was being pushed between them . |
| 2 | Later I found out that my husband was being unfaithful to me . |
| 3 | I did not hear any calls warning of the presence of the 109s , and very soon after first sighting the Ju88s I became aware that my aircraft was being hit . |
| 4 | The Independent of Aug. 19 reported that a second country was known to be developing the missile with Israel , but that its identity was being kept secret . |
| 5 | A more sophisticated girl would have realised that her enthusiasm was being ruthlessly exploited as the tasks she was given became broader and more demanding , but Constance happily did everything she was told . |
| 6 | A member of staff from Finance contacted the team concerned that her name was being given out on the radio . |
| 7 | Clouds of smoke were indeed seen billowing up from her deck but it was later established that her cargo was being burnt to destroy the evidence . |
| 8 | His wife failed to persuade the judges to include him amongst the prisoners released in the celebrations of the coronation of Charles II , and in her bitterness told them that her husband was being denied justice because he was a tinker and a poor man . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , ’ Nellie said , glancing quickly at Carrie as if to signal that her father was being secretive about his work again . |
| 10 | For a moment he savoured their saltiness and then he seemed to register that her body was being racked with sobs . |
| 11 | The team clearly adopted a far too low key approach , with insufficient trawling for support among backbenchers which was reported to have offended a number who felt that their support was being taken for granted . |
| 12 | A public that had seen income tax rise fivefold in five years were only too ready to believe that their money was being wasted . |
| 13 | She said she would not blame teachers for concluding that their profession was being utterly deprofessionalised after Mr Lang 's suggestion that schools could be run by parents and local busy-bodies . |
| 14 | The Mathematics department felt that their allocation was being eroded as other weightings increased , so they were finally given a weighting of 1.2 . |
| 15 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 16 | Somebody er to whom the erm er matters could be referred to er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund er to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way , which is something that we have n't got at the moment . |
| 17 | All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system . |
| 18 | Rennie understood that his leg was being gently pulled , and he did n't like it . |
| 19 | All he had said was that his love-life was being well taken care of — and it was perfectly clear from the tenor of her greeting that Nina believed herself to be in the singular . |
| 20 | I did n't think it necessary to comment about that in my reply to that , in fact I have , I was speaking with er Mr when I saw this question down and reported it to him that his name was being used in such a way erm . |
| 21 | He was a bitter man , his life in ruins , convinced that his telephone was being tapped , that the police had tried to kill him — by loosening the front wheel nut on his Honda — and that potential employers were being leaned on . |
| 22 | Then he realised that his music was being drowned by the noise of the conflagration . |
| 23 | That we do n't know too much about , but the assertion that one or two people have made is that his music was being used in the subliminal message under the music technique . |
| 24 | A shrill bleep from the missile detection system gave him a brief forewarning that his aircraft was being scanned by radar tracking devices . |
| 25 | My father went to a police station that evening after work to report the threatening telephone call and the fact that his son was being threatened with extreme violence . |
| 26 | The suicide bid follows protests by Newall 's solicitor Chris Finch that his client was being held in ‘ inhuman conditions ’ . |
| 27 | Jeremiah experienced God as a pain that invaded his every limb , and Muhammad said that he never received a revelation without feeling that his soul was being torn from his body . |
| 28 | Once there he was informed that his application was being looked upon favourably , and very shortly he could expect to hear that he was to report to Cranwell to begin his Officer Training Course . |
| 29 | At that time the Oxford course lasted seven years and Richard left before taking his degree when he was nineteen years old , feeling , as he explains in his mystical treatise The Fire of Love , that his youth was being wasted on worldly and dissolute pursuits . |
| 30 | She had even left a photograph of Joseph Hegarty in the boy 's room lest he should think that his father was being banished from his memory on top of everything else . |