Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] be [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 We do not have the same pre-programmed instincts and mind patterns , the same tattvic constitution , and we thus find it difficult to know exactly what is being communicated .
2 Each house has a sophisticated meter attached to its TV set , which records exactly what is being played ( or played back on video ) .
3 Other monies will not be separately identified from the general rate support grant from the Department of the Environment , a decision which will make it very difficult to identify exactly what is being spent on services by individual authorities .
4 This brilliantly condensed vignette reveals clearly who is being attacked .
5 ‘ It 's ideal as a soil conditioner and for tree planting , and besides being used here it is being used in planting Cleveland 's new Community Forest . ’
6 For consider again what is being claimed .
7 In doing so he was being made to look like a ‘ revisionist ’ , one of the dirtiest words in the Communist vocabulary , their equivalent of ‘ UnAmerican ’ or worse .
8 The Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , should carry the can , even though he may not have known exactly what was being done by his people .
9 He frowned , unable to think , unable to grasp immediately what was being implied .
10 Well let me just say quickly we 're being recorded there 's there 's someone er who 's got ta er a project organisation by the Oxford University Press who 's interested in our spoken word
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