Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This entails personal views and values , a judgement about the degree of respect in which one holds the view of other people and a sense of whether something is being sacrificed or enhanced as a result of making adjustments . |
| 2 | The West Germans , known as ‘ Westies ’ , treat the ‘ Easties ’ as if we are were illiterate idiots . |
| 3 | We are told that , having lost an empire , we can have a new role in a European superstate , as if we were being asked to be its leader — which we are not . |
| 4 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 5 | always gon na see , to feel as if they 're being |
| 6 | feel as if they 're being extorted and they will look to them and say well this is obviously the , the case whether this particular guy who is , who is our erm leader is , is erm |
| 7 | Frazer also mentions a sanctuary whose mephitic area contains only ‘ the eunuch priests of the Great Mother Goddess ’ , who have ‘ a look on their faces as if they were being choked ’ . |
| 8 | You see the children happily following the Captain , as if they were being led through the streets of Hamelin . |
| 9 | I have had gill flukes ( not personally ! ) and my fish did n't scratch ; they acted as if they were being poisoned ( heightened colour , loss of control of movement ) , possibly because of oxygen depletion due to gill damage . |
| 10 | ‘ Run ! ’ he yelled to Lou , and the two boys , acting as if they were being pursued by the evil agents of an alien warlord , fairly streaked along the road . |
| 11 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 12 | Ingrid watched in amazement as the eggs disappeared as if they were being sucked into quicksand , and looked up to see every man 's eyes riveted upon Ilse 's gaping crack . |
| 13 | These two look as if they were being careful not to disturb things too much . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's as if they were being rammed by an invisible man , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The words came reluctantly , almost as if they were being dragged from him . |
| 16 | The old stone pillars were shaking as if they were being brought back to life . |
| 17 | ‘ At a certain point one is compelled to develop a conception of insight , or pure thinking , which is not recognisably ‘ moral ’ , something which simulates , or is , the rising up of man into the divine , as if one were being driven into the godhead . ’ |
| 18 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 19 | They put a red blanket over her in the ambulance and it was soft to her touch but then the pain did come , up in the wall of her back as if something was being pulled away like the backing from sticking plaster . |
| 20 | High above Miles 's head , beyond the terminus bubble , the Bridge itself was trembling ; it was becoming more difficult to see , as if something were being called into shape around the central shaft . |
| 21 | Overworked and depressed , she felt as if she were being turned into a glamorous business machine . |
| 22 | After half an hour or so , the two of them restored their employer to her feet , and they set off again , Miss Fergusson leaning on the guide 's arm with a strange nonchalance , as if she were being conducted round a cathedral or a zoological garden . |
| 23 | as if she were being asked to walk across a sheet of ice , and with every step her confidence was faltering . |
| 24 | So it was n't as if she was being maltreated . ’ |
| 25 | Dragging her feet reluctantly , as if she was being pushed from behind , Sylvia took her book to Carolyn , standing well back and handing it to her at arm 's length . |
| 26 | His deduction made her heart stop , and his choices made her feel as if she was being torn apart . |
| 27 | A young girl with a carrier bag pushes her way through the crowd as if she was being pursued . |
| 28 | No one appeared as Charles approached the front door , but he felt as if he was being watched . |
| 29 | After all , it was n't exactly as if he was being given a choice . |
| 30 | Then , as if he was being answered , a voice in his head yelled , ‘ And she 'll not leave me ! |