Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] were be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their pursuit of high-level official corruption , and the perception that they were being victimized for it , had earned Gdlyan and Ivanov significant public support . |
| 2 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 3 | They said my girlfriend and I were being unrealistic . |
| 4 | On follow-up , when these subjects were sleeping only 6 hours but not feeling sleepy any more during the day , the proportions of sleep stages were no different from the period in the experiment when they were being restricted to 6 hours ' sleep ( when this restriction did mace them feel sleepy ) . |
| 5 | The younger drivers were obviously under heavy pressure from their teams : they had spent years getting into the sport and they were being threatened with dismissal . |
| 6 | Yeah but of course if you were being serious you 'd have to ask him directly would n't you ? |
| 7 | I knew why , they had the queer sensation that they were being addressed by someone from a bygone age . |
| 8 | This is not to deny that there were unscrupulous landlords who were guilty of depopulation — the evidence that there were is clear . |
| 9 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 10 | As they got out of the car and walked across the yard , their feet scrunching on the stones , Jinny had a queer feeling that they were being watched . |
| 11 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 12 | ‘ Anybody watching that would have said I was a rapist and you were being raped . ’ |
| 13 | But the reason as it were was to address some of the issues er that Professor Lock has raised . |
| 14 | The weight-conscious so often choose the most fattening dishes on the menu , in the mistaken idea that they were being virtuous . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 17 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 18 | As Angel One advanced in turn and returned the formal pre-combat courtesy , he was acutely aware of the fact that they were being observed from the spectators ' gallery above . |
| 19 | A fall in the price of land and in the value of rents meant that the reigns of William and Anne were difficult times for the landed classes , and their plight was exacerbated by the fact that they were being hit by a tax on land of four shillings in the pound to finance the wars against France . |
| 20 | Out of the corner of her eye , she caught the fact that they were being stared at with unveiled interest by most members of the group , the most curious of all , of course , being Mandy . |