Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [subord] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 2 | In a way I think so , I mean if were quite honest about it but we also see ourselves mirrored in whoever we love we see ourselves mirrored in their eyes which is a very comfortable sort of feeling . |
| 3 | ‘ Because — well , I suppose because being near you was beginning to make me very nervous . ’ |
| 4 | The Machine Gunners , for example , was cited by sixteen of the twenty-seven teachers to whom I spoke as being both consistently popular with pupils and also as being readily accessible to them because of the recent television serialization which caused heightened interest . |
| 5 | Yes it 's now going to take two years longer I think than was originally er contended , to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and Germany one 's thinking of in particular , wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons ? |
| 6 | Firstly , and what I see as being most important his thoughts are used as an introduction to both acts . |
| 7 | But it would n't mean very much to me if I did , ’ she confessed to the tall lean man whom she assessed as being somewhere in his middle thirties . |
| 8 | we saw as being very strong again in tax er and certainly in the er , in the major fields , these fields . |
| 9 | So um sometimes the way in which abusers operate , they characterise as being somehow continuous with somehow s almost the same sort of things as as y'know kind of adult affection and love . |
| 10 | But more to the point , the flight and maintenance crews have great confidence in them and regard the reports they generate as being very important , contributing significantly to improved safety in the air . |
| 11 | Presumably another effect is that when people work , assuming they enjoy what they 're doing , they 're doing something which they regard as being reasonably important . |
| 12 | The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame . |
| 13 | " And " is by no means always used in its Boolean sense ( consider " yachting and boating " ) , but " or " usually is so intended ( people use " or " rather than " and " when they do not see the concepts which it separates as being particularly closely related ) . |
| 14 | For Hans Frank , the Führer had been ‘ a sort of superman ’ in whom he had believed ‘ without reservation ’ and whom he regarded as being right ‘ in all decisive matters ’ . |
| 15 | Eysenck claims that criminals tend to rate highly on two personality characteristics — extroversion and neuroticism — both of which he sees as being predominantly inherited . |
| 16 | Beccaria concludes with a section on prevention , which he sees as being very much preferable to punishment — it increases aggregate utility , the happiness of the greatest number ( or , rather , decreases their aggregate unhappiness ) . |
| 17 | The well-known symbol of the Association is on all packaged foods that it recognises as being truly organic and indicates that the food has been produced on land that meets all the requirements of the Association . |