Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , where the money is no longer legal tender as seen with half crown coins and sixpences in R v Thompson [ 1980 ] QB 229 , or where it is being transferred because of its curiosity value ( Moss v Hancock [ 1899 ] 2 QB 111 ) , or because of its inherent value such as Krugerrands , in these circumstances " money " can be considered to be " goods " for the purposes of the statutory definition . |
| 2 | They range I mean er the the er the er Prussian Austro-Prussian war of eighteen sixty six is is referred to as what the six weeks war and and erm the five , five weeks of that or or or whatever were were involved in peace negotiations . |
| 3 | Resentment was always present when parents felt either that there was a lack of openness or frankness on the part of the professionals or administrators , or that they were being coerced , or that their concern for and about their child was being called into question . |
| 4 | The film viewer sees a wide range of technical devices — split-screen , slow motion , fast motion , various kinds of fades — that enable the storyteller to indicate that something happened earlier ( the ‘ flash-back ’ ) or that something will happen in the future , or that something is being dreamt or fantasized . |
| 5 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 6 | Even while speaking , he was shrinking , either in real terms or because he was being sucked into the distance ; darkness made it hard to differentiate . |
| 7 | Nothing on the surface of the text indicates which kind of question is being asked ; yet it is important that young readers should be aware whether they are being directly invited to find an answer , or whether they are being led , as in ( h.7 ) and ( h.8 ) , through the history of a discovery . |
| 8 | The coffin muffled all sounds from outside , and she wondered if they were going to leave her here , or whether she was being taken elsewhere . |
| 9 | Shall he doubt whether he is awake , whether he is being pinched , or whether he is being burned ? |
| 10 | The way we cope depends on many factors , such as whether the particular answer really matters or whether it is being used as a vehicle to introduce , or work on , ‘ specialising ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the revolution . |
| 12 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 13 | What expression do they have when they 're thinking black thoughts about someone they 're trying to ingratiate themselves with , or when they 're being praised for qualities they 're aware they do n't possess ? |
| 14 | The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well . |
| 15 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 16 | In the course of their demands to Reg Weaver , the t&gwu factory convenor , the workers from section 61 found out that although they were being paid bonuses on a target of 200 or more they were in fact entitled to bonuses on 168 ( an agreement which dated back to 1972 and would have meant £4 a week extra ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me that although I was being entirely faithful to her she had no inhibitions about sleeping with other men for kicks . ’ |
| 18 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 19 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
| 20 | He said that when he was being interviewed by the inspector he was not asked about engaging in a sexual transaction with a prostitute . |
| 21 | I 'm also sick to death of patronising DJ shits like Simon Bates saying that Sinead is ill and that when she is being nice , she is the loveliest person in the world . |
| 22 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 23 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Imagine our universe is a huge cheese , and where we were is another cheese . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's quite simple , really , David — I love you , and where you are is where I want to be . |
| 26 | I want the world to know how things stand , and that we 're being truthful and open and not ashamed or in any way put down . |
| 27 | If you know that employers are using immigrants as cheap labour , and that they 're being used to undercut your rates of pay , you 're going to be against that . |
| 28 | I felt as if my soul was filling with honey and manna and that I was being brought to a mystic feast . |
| 29 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 30 | Although doubt has been cast on that finding by the results of the national survey ( see Parker 1982 : 90 ) , McGoldrick and Cooper 's research was conducted after the national survey and it has helped to encourage a view that attitudes towards early retirement are changing significantly and that it is being regarded more and more favourably by older workers ( see for example , House of Commons Select Committee on Social Services 1982 ) . |