Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do I have to conform , to feel real only when I 'm being normal ? |
| 2 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 3 | They are better and worse — better when they are being their simple selves , amusing everyone and faithful as lovers ; worse when they disguise themselves as humans ( Judge Doom/Christopher Lloyd ) and conceal their origins . |
| 4 | I do n't know how I had the nerve to speak to you as I did — to turn you away when you were being so nice and so good . |
| 5 | Plastic mirror is another possible substitute and has the advantage that it wo n't steam over ; on the other hand it can crack very easily when it is being fixed into place and it does seem to give a more distorted reflection . |
| 6 | The process which led to the entrenchment of serfdom in Russia — just when it was being undermined in the West — has been the subject of prolonged historiographical debate . |
| 7 | It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life . |
| 8 | Alien corn , Father Dowd called them once when he was being entertained at home and he and her father were discussing politics . |
| 9 | I had to occupy a temporary cage next to them once when mine was being repaired . |
| 10 | than fair okay , good good What 's a person like when they 're being assertive ? |
| 11 | But erm , there are one or two interesting exceptions to this , and one exception is myself , because er , I started analyzing myself through maybe to nineteen sixty nine , and with one or two small exceptions , like when I was being analyzed by and I did n't like it , with any doubt , my entire analysis was being written down . |
| 12 | Well when you 're being paid for doing a job that 's the price you pay if you want to keep in work . |
| 13 | One respondent in this school of thought commented on the strength of the bond between even inadequate parents and children , saying : ‘ The astounding thing , in my experience as a social worker , is that for the most part kids are crazy about their parents , even when they 're being badly treated . ’ |
| 14 | Since they are scavengers by nature , in addition to their hunting instincts , many dogs will steal food even when they are being fed properly and are not suffering from illness . |
| 15 | None the less , Hoggart emphasizes the primary need to " submit " to works of art , even when they are being used as social documents . |
| 16 | He says , philosophically , that ‘ those engines were prone to signing off even when they were is service ’ , but somehow this was all a bit personal . |
| 17 | Even when she was being reprimanded she had still loved to listen to her mother 's voice . |
| 18 | Even when he was being particularly careful not to offend , he seemed to manage to say the wrong thing . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't accept that this is an issue about the oversimplification of a debate — these theories of race and intelligence have no place in public discussion , particularly when they are being used in an attempt to discredit an argument about racial discrimination . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We are obviously not there when someone is being tortured or killed . |
| 21 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |