Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | and in the same way , if if they 're being given that example , |
| 4 | And I 've thought about buying a , a me erm a metal detector and going up and going over the where the kirkyard was because when there were was here that was in about sixteen oh it might have been about sixteen sixty or sixteen eighty . |
| 5 | Chairman while though it 's being recorded perhaps I could take this opportunity to add mine . |
| 6 | He gave me such a look , as if I was being really disgusting . |
| 7 | In particular , attention has been directed to such questions as whether it is being dismantled or whether its frontiers are being narrowed by privatisation . |
| 8 | At the thought of those tears , my eyes felt as though they were being crushed and I wished that that moment would last forever . |
| 9 | It is not as though they were being asked to do an aerobatic display , Mildred . |
| 10 | To the horror of Home Department civil servants , they suddenly receive an order from the Home Secretary , to the effect that a quick fix is needed to make it look as though something is being done . |
| 11 | I felt as though I was being hung , drawn and quartered for my past , and the only way to live with what was happening to me was to try desperately to provoke some emotional reaction in you . |
| 12 | Hanging back as he strode off to get it , she protested worriedly , ‘ I really think it might be best not to — and I do n't know quite how it is , but although you all seem to move without speed , not to hurry , I feel as though I 'm being rushed along without time to draw breath ! ’ |
| 13 | She was conscious of one undoubted fact : ‘ He was directing all his conversations to Joan Sims at this time , so I felt as though I were being talked at , rather than talked to . ’ |
| 14 | Do you ever feel as though you 're being ganged up on ? |
| 15 | She was so aware of his hard body , and of the undeniable sex appeal of those jeans and that white shirt , that she deliberately did not look at him , staring fixedly ahead while noting every detail of him as though it was being burned into her brain . |
| 16 | To go on acting as though there were is to add to the layers of falsehood which already cover our ( so-called ) civilization . |
| 17 | Bernice told herself that it was n't surprising that she felt as though she was being watched . |
| 18 | The grey eyes roamed over her face , and she felt as though she was being devoured by some huge magnetic force . |
| 19 | It felt as though she was being off-loaded . |
| 20 | Remembering the way Michele had brought her , she retraced her steps , not without a certain unease , a prickly feeling of discomfort , as though she was being watched by unseen eyes . |
| 21 | For some reason it felt as though she was being sucked into something by a card-sharp . |
| 22 | The Trunchbull 's whole body and face seemed to swell up as though she were being inflated by a bicycle-pump . |
| 23 | He was so kind and good , and Honor felt as though she were being blessed whenever he spoke to her . |
| 24 | He felt as though he was prying , and as though he was being uselessly urged on by some violent emotion of curiosity — not greed , curiosity , more fundamental even than sex , the desire for knowledge . |
| 25 | Suddenly he became aware of an eerie feeling , as though he was being watched . |
| 26 | I know it looks as though he was being filmed in a prison cell . |
| 27 | He 'd sounded as though he was being sarcastic , or ironic , but again she had n't a clue what he meant . |
| 28 | His throat was wound round with flickering blue blood vessels , as though he was being strangled by asps . |