Example sentences of "be [subord] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 2 | He can not be as dominating in the air as a 6ft.4in goalkeeper . |
| 3 | Such alliances tend to be as fleeting as the chance encounters and re-encounters of fictional characters in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951–75 ) ; and the conversation of young friends , as potent in all likelihood as any literary influence there is , is largely beyond the reach of the historian , even the contemporary historian , except as guesswork . |
| 4 | Again , it is surely relevant to ask what the cumulative effects on boys might be when responding to a literature which , unlike the world outside the novel , is populated entirely by the masculine . |
| 5 | But Connon remained as cool and unmoved as he had been while listening to Hurst . |
| 6 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 7 | As for the metaphor of ‘ law ’ , its persisting power is evident whenever someone , pondering the determinist thesis that even his own actions are ‘ bound by ’ , are ‘ subject to ’ , ‘ obey ’ the laws of nature , finds himself thinking as though he ought to be conscious of his own resisting will , as he is when submitting to human laws . |
| 8 | But it is when riding in the British Isles — both parts of this island , England Scotland and Wales — that most of us are most vulnerable . |
| 9 | One is unlikely to catch the infection from sleeping in a bed previously occupied by an infested person and there is no need , as there is when dealing with body lice , to take special care with clothing and bed linen . |
| 10 | My rule is when skating on thin ice move fast , so I shall get |
| 11 | William of Orange , whatever his initial intentions might have been when coming to England , was now determined to obtain the English Crown for himself , and he secured James 's second , and this time enforced , removal from his Kingdom on 23 December . |
| 12 | He seemed to hang suspended above the worshippers , his two tiny arms held out in front of him , and he was as still and quiet and calm as he had been when sitting at the Wilsons ' table or resting , alone , at the back of Class 1 . |
| 13 | This was because according to Morgan kin terms lag behind . |
| 14 | This was because owing to wartime censorship there had been little in the newspapers about industrial disputes . |
| 15 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |
| 16 | It was while waiting for a train on Uxbridge Station that the sight of a poster for the Tower Furnishing Company inspired W. S. Gilbert to write The Yeomen of the Guard . |
| 17 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 18 | It was while travelling through Goa in December 1990 , that Nick Brown began a living nightmare . |
| 19 | It was while travelling around the world for the UN that she first became impressed with the simple forms of cosmetics made from natural ingredients used by remote communities . |
| 20 | It was while travelling around the world that the seeds of her future calling were first sown . |
| 21 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 22 | Whilst metalpoint drawings survive in their own right , it was as underdrawing for egg tempera painting towards the end of the 16th century , and the rise of oil painting , demanding more flexible underpainting , the use of metalpoint lessened . |
| 23 | The only time I have ever been bitten was when running with a partner who was petrified of dogs . |