Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [adj] [noun] be being " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any situation where heavy demands are placed on personnel owing to excessive work load , there is a tendency to deal with those jobs where most external pressure is being applied and to neglect the ones showing least demand . |
| 2 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 3 | In these scenes where characters attempt to break out of their proper medium , the audience or reader should feel a sense of impropriety or disorder , as if some basic law were being denied . |
| 4 | But growers say that people are being conned because some spanish plumbs are being labelled as Victorias — which they 're not : |
| 5 | While this idealistic programme was being assembled a massive revolt broke out in Vietnam : bigger than any outbreak since 1908 or 1916 . |
| 6 | While these constitutional niceties were being debated , a crowd of students gathered in the rain a few hundred yards away in Wenceslas Square to demonstrate support for Mr Havel . |
| 7 | For some questionable assumptions are being made . |
| 8 | It was encouraging last year , that when some Cycladic antiquities were being sold at Sotheby 's , the Greek government made a protest and had some impact on that sale . |
| 9 | Thinking about language acquisition and skilled language use in terms of the particular forms of information-processing that go on when any linguistic task is being performed , and thinking about language disorders explicitly as patterns of impairments and preservations of different forms of information-processing , thus provides a particularly powerful way of illuminating both normal and disordered linguistic capacities . |
| 10 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |