Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [being] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're particularly concerned about people over 60 , many of whom are being dismissed as untreatable , even though they 're suffering pain and deformity . |
| 2 | Barn owls need barns or similar buildings for breeding , and more and more of them are being converted into country houses . |
| 3 | Some of them are being taught in dining halls , store rooms and offices . |
| 4 | Lot of them are being sacked off the bloody telly in n it ? |
| 5 | I 'm just trying to remember everybody in the same afternoon , to collect them all because of about six of them are being done around here |
| 6 | At present there are no more than half-a-dozen British products in the fields covered by Alvey and most of them are being used experimentally . |
| 7 | Many of them are being forced to turn the crop into cattle feed because Britain has more potatos than it needs . |
| 8 | Lesley and even Emma and I are being seen as lads , unfeminine , trying to be blokes . |
| 9 | I thought : I am being psychoanalysed . |
| 10 | I am being lobbied heavily by my right hon. Friend the hon. Member for Wallasey ( Mrs. Chalker ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I am being kept waiting with a message for Miss Lavenza . ’ |
| 12 | It is not love when the concern is the fact that I am being inconvenienced , but it is when the concern is for the damage that is being done to my partner and our relationship . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't like the fact that I am being pushed out in the cold . |
| 14 | I wonder if there will be any end to the sacrifices I am being asked to make . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not Sidacai 's death I am being asked for , but his life , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I am being asked to believe , and to sell to my constituents , the idea that binding us even closer together will one day result in all these inequalities being removed . |
| 17 | I believe that I am being asked a question on my meeting yesterday with the UKIAS executive council , and I have no doubt that other hon. Members have tabled questions . |
| 18 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 19 | I am being punished for being an invalid and paying my national insurance contributions for 40 years . |
| 20 | ‘ They are my punishment ; but I do not know what I am being punished for . |
| 21 | Now I am being besieged by offers of films in Hollywood and other areas . |
| 22 | When I am being helped into a bath of hot water , however , I draw in my breath and cry out for her : ‘ Mama ! |
| 23 | Her core beliefs were ‘ I have no right to be alive ’ and , with somewhat convoluted logic , ‘ I am being forced to stay alive as a punishment for being born . ’ |
| 24 | But because they 're reducing the fee income for dentists in the National Health Service these dentists , dedicated people , in some pretty tough estates in my patch , were saying , I am being forced to go private . |
| 25 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
| 26 | I thought : " I am being buried alive " . |
| 27 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 28 | ‘ Well perhaps I am being typecast after all , ’ says Super Mario Hoskins . |
| 29 | ‘ I know I am being investigated but it is not something I would like to talk about . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps I am being prejudged in the same way , if my name is even mentioned outside . |