Example sentences of "[pron] [be] being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lot of them are being sacked off the bloody telly in n it ? |
| 2 | Perhaps I am being prejudged in the same way , if my name is even mentioned outside . |
| 3 | I am being taken to the realms of the People , who hate nature as much as they hate me , who am unnatural . |
| 4 | And I 'm sending all this lot off that did n't get sent off , and contacting I 'm being contacted about the place . |
| 5 | One moment , I 'm being thrown off the premises . |
| 6 | Star and Garter I 'm being told from the right here , those sort of very special places we do n't provide them , we buy in from , from outside . |
| 7 | It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed . |
| 8 | An hour later I was being monitored at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital — weak contractions confirmed in labour , I was sent to the ward in a wheelchair . |
| 9 | I caught myself wondering how I would feel if I knew I was being transfused with the blood of someone of 85 : would it be strong enough ? |
| 10 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 11 | I could n't put a name on her treatment of me , no word existed for what she was trying to do , but I knew I was being manipulated under the guise of deference and consideration . |
| 12 | I found myself in pursuit , not out of choice , but because I was being chased by the mob behind . |
| 13 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 14 | I was being crushed at the sides but my feet felt they were being pulled . ’ |
| 15 | Not being paid was n't a problem ; what was however was that I was being used for the donkey work without any consultation on the artistic side of it , And that was important to me . |
| 16 | I was being drawn into the centre of the town by the sound of a church bell throbbing . |
| 17 | I thought I was being taken to the prison but instead found myself outside the door of Le Coq d'Or . |
| 18 | The whole thing seemed to be over with in five minutes — I 'd hardly sat down before I was being taken down the steps to the police cells . |
| 19 | A long , long , unutterably tedious wait in the lint-filled darkness , until at last I felt the tension of the crane and realised that I was being lowered into the hold . |
| 20 | ‘ I was being groomed for the role . |
| 21 | I knew that I was being considered for the MBE , to be announced in the next Queen 's Birthday Honours , and to say I was stunned at the thought was an understatement . |
| 22 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 23 | What I want to dispute , Mr Chairman , is the the type and the nature of dwellings which are being developed on the site . |
| 24 | General Accident are not expecting any additional claims activity as a result of the flooding in the Mid-West , the insurance costs of which are being handled under the US Government 's National Flood Insurance Programme . |
| 25 | Written in June 1936 , " Secrets de l'Espagne " , Nizan 's extended analysis of the Spanish situation for La Correspondance internationale , bears witness not only to his perceptiveness ( " There is emerging on the Republican horizon a fascist bid for power the conditions for which are being prepared by the social unrest orchestrated by the right " ) , but also to his enormous talent as a political reporter . |
| 26 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 27 | In order to do this we will need to know your preferences as regards the alternative structures which are being suggested by the various parties in discussions so far . |
| 28 | Therefore , it was the offensive school which won the procurement battle , and it is these new offensive technologies which are being used in the Gulf war . |
| 29 | for the past ten he 's dominated the world of barefoot … this weekend … he skies in the British national Championships which are being held at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold water park … |
| 30 | List the fittings which are being included in the sale ; these are usually items fixed to the walls such as kitchen units , mirrors , light fittings , cupboard units and , of course , any curtains or carpets and so on . |