Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] were be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Yeah but of course if you were being serious you 'd have to ask him directly would n't you ? |
| 3 | But the reason as it were was to address some of the issues er that Professor Lock has raised . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |