Example sentences of "[pron] were be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said my girlfriend and I were being unrealistic . |
| 2 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 3 | A nice night 's sleep seems like a nice change , but nightmares have habits of popping up , once when I was five I had a dream that my friends and I were being ripped apart and eaten by a giant , now when the time comes to go into that great big C D tea room in the sky , could you change something ? |
| 4 | Yet studiously , subtly , with no obvious exertion on Edward 's part , Laura and I were being kept at a distance . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The actual driving force behind American thinking on a renewal of atomic collaborations was anxiety about uranium ore supplies , which were being consumed at an increasing rate as American programmes accelerated . |
| 7 | Ministry of Defence and the centralization of the Defence votes , which were being studied at the same time as the Skybolt/Polaris crisis was coming to a head . |
| 8 | Sir Alfred Mond , of the Federation of British Industries , and Ben Turner , President of the General Council of the TUC , entered into discussions while their respective bodies debated their attitude to the new alliance and the proposals which were being made . |
| 9 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 10 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 11 | Monroe and Bardot could hardly be held up as examples of the joys of fidelity , domesticity and motherhood which were being hymned in the magazines . |
| 12 | It was the run-up period to a series of local elections , which were being widely viewed as a test of chancellor Kohl 's handling of the unification issue . |
| 13 | The grateful driver told the farmer that his cargo consisted of 47 foxes which were being transported from the Midlands to be let loose in Wales by order of the RSPCA . |
| 14 | The result was a period of internal instability which did nothing to facilitate the attempts which were being made to strengthen France 's external position by a policy of military reform and rearmament . |
| 15 | The external signs of ageing , as at different points eyesight blurred , menstruation ceased , hair and teeth fell out , were seen as linked to signs of internal degeneration such as sclerosis which were being discovered through post-mortems . |
| 16 | Already he was beginning to get roles in the ballets by Dulcie Howes which were being rehearsed . |
| 17 | Mr Bean had bales of straw in the truck which were being unloaded , and hay and sacks of food , and buckets . |
| 18 | Where this did not happen it would be possible for part of the membership of the Exchange Advisory Committees ( provided for in section 2 , subsection v of the Act ) to be co-opted to assist with the local education employment bureaux which were being started in Scotland and in parts of England . |
| 19 | His affairs had become a ‘ case ’ which were being given ‘ a hearing ’ . |
| 20 | Out of the window , as she hastened down the spiral staircase , Mildred saw the fires which were being lit in the ruins of the old castle where the celebrations were always held . |
| 21 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 22 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |
| 23 | Medical advances resulted in educationalists , physicians and psychologists becoming aware that the classifications of handicap which were being used failed to take into account the complexity of individual disability . |
| 24 | This meant that sociologists have had to look more closely at the idea of ‘ skill ’ , at the kinds of skills which were being introduced , and at the effects of the Youth Training Scheme upon both the labour market and upon young people . |
| 25 | Whatever the ‘ frontier ’ might do to emigrant traditions on the ranchlands of Uruguay , in the island of Sakhalin , or the mines of the Rand , the institutions and ideas which were being adapted there were European . |
| 26 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 27 | After lunch we walked around the town and marvelled at the prices which were being asked for some of the antique furniture . |
| 28 | By 1990 , many systems had changed to the extent that 80 per cent of the costs came from services — software , engineering support and applications consultancy — many of which were being provided by the hardware suppliers . |
| 29 | And four figures emerged from this preoccupation with sex , four objects of knowledge , four types of human subjects , subjected ; targets of and anchorages for the categories which were being simultaneously investigated and regulated : the hysterical woman , the masturbating child , the Malthusian couple , and the perverse adult . |
| 30 | In the preface to another intelligence report , the SEAC Assistant Director of Intelligence addressed himself squarely to some of the political problems which were being faced . |