Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as I was being bundled in and out of police vans for telling the troops in Northern Ireland exactly where they should go , I was also attending GLF meetings . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I went to the island of Kos with some mates and at the same time as I was being ill some of my mates were having headaches and feeling ill . |
| 3 | He identified totally with the Prussian cause , and if to remain exactly as you are is an ambition , then he identified with Junker ambition too . |
| 4 | One of the most flattering things ever said to me was by a teacher who said , ‘ Kinnock , I 'd like to call you lazy but nobody who 's as big a nuisance as you are is lazy . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose accepting yourself as you are is very sexy . |
| 6 | Not a thing as long as you 're being as long as you 're being paid for it , it is actually . |
| 7 | Not a thing as long as you 're being as long as you 're being paid for it , it is actually . |
| 8 | as you 're being my mum you did n't keep us very long . |
| 9 | His widow Jane was said to be ‘ inconsolable ’ as she was being comforted by friends . |
| 10 | The injured included a 24-year-old woman who had to be resuscitated from a heart attack as she was being flown to hospital by helicopter . |
| 11 | As she was being examined , Diana 's teacher noticed the empty bed . |
| 12 | Luke 's words and their possible implication slammed belatedly into her brain as she was being introduced to the entertainment editor of a local newspaper , but natural incredulity dismissed them as more talk , just words carelessly plucked from an inadequate language . |
| 13 | From the opening stomp of the title track , a joyous collusion of The Glitter Band and M 's ‘ Pop Musik ’ , to the final rip-roaring ‘ I 'm Against The Eighties ’ , ‘ Back In Denim ’ is such a labour of love , so insanely , often painfully personal that it raises a smile even as we 're being made to feel ashamed that we allow our music to be hijacked and controlled by them . |
| 14 | Thank you , Chairman , I , firstly I 'm indebted to Mr Harrison , here , for a new phrase into the English language , as we 're being recorded this morning . |
| 15 | Excuse me , as we 're being recorded it is a pantomime |
| 16 | To permit things to proceed as they are is to invite further mass emigration , further disorder , and deeper isolation of East Germany among its increasingly notional ‘ fraternal socialist allies ’ . |
| 17 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 18 | This allows carvings to develop as they are being produced . ’ |
| 19 | At the other extreme , referred to as ‘ top-down ’ planning , the planning department participates in , and influences the development of , strategies and plans of each business unit as they are being prepared . |
| 20 | The first two can be seen as being derived from history , both shared and private , while the third is an attempt to come to terms with and respond to current realities as they are being experienced . |
| 21 | They want to engage in as mature a fashion as possible in realities as they are being experienced in order to take and make their own authority for their existence without being caught in the many traps for immaturity which are open to them . |
| 22 | Dependants ' benefits will disappear as they are being held down until the universal child benefit catches up with them . |
| 23 | The ethnographic investigator spends time observing the lives as they are being led , piecing together patterns of activity and elements of conversations . |
| 24 | Search Sheets for each Division of the Register of Sasines are in the custody of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland as they are being updated continually and are consulted by his staff in the registration of every deed presented for registration . |
| 25 | ‘ No-one should be fooled by the small fluctuation in this month 's unemployment figures as they are being claimed by the Government themselves as possibly erratic . |
| 26 | Weak syllables , on the other hand , as they are being defined here , can only have four types of peak : |
| 27 | This would appeal greatly to the crowd as they are being given a reasonable , simple reason to why Caesar was killed , because he was out for himself . |
| 28 | The company 's Tokyo bureau chief , David Butts , twice entered the press club room — on May 21st and May 24th — and demanded to see the results as they were being put in the cubby-holes . |
| 29 | It is quite clear from studies of aboriginal peoples elsewhere that they could be astute traders and politicians , using the European newcomers for their own ends as much as they were being used . |
| 30 | As the Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy , as they were being hotly pursued by a posse of Pinkerton detectives ‘ If they paid me to stop raiding banks , what they paid them to stop me robbing banks , I 'd stop robbing banks . ’ |