Example sentences of "be [be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think what we 're trying to do is to see that we 're being treated fairly just as we might listen to that person 's argument as well . |
| 2 | Recent events in the market are being examined as quantitatively as possible , with the object of analysing the forces determining the degree of price instability and of cartel coherence . |
| 3 | Aonach Mor has rapidly gained popularity and routes are being repeated as well as created . |
| 4 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
| 5 | Monsters were being created as early as the fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Iran . |
| 6 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 7 | That 's , that 's right , it 's being updated now even as we speak . |
| 8 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 9 | The way in which the budgetary process is managed by the people involved may be as important as what is being managed as far as outcomes are concerned . |
| 10 | The latter so impressed George II that he had it hung on the walls of his apartment , and it was being printed as late as 1821 . |