Example sentences of "[be] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many essays suffer from exactly this problem : they lack a clear sense of what the main issues are which are being addressed . |
| 2 | Yes so you 're you 're are you self employed |
| 3 | You jest with me now come on we 're we 're we 're being serious Noel if you are a teacher it is almost impossible to sack you . |
| 4 | We 're we 're being the best paid |
| 5 | Oh yeah I I ca yeah , I I accept I 'm I 'm being |
| 6 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
| 7 | She observes , for example , that gender may affect language use in a given situation not just as a property of the speaker but also as a characteristic of the addressee ; the determining factor might be who is being spoken to rather than who is speaking . |
| 8 | So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of |
| 9 | Are are they being are they being marketed by ? |
| 10 | IF you 're travelling in a dirty car today the chances are it 's being driven by a woman . |
| 11 | It 's being it is being prescribed t for huge numbers of people , it 's being promoted as a very safe drug , it 's a very profitable drug , and we already know that it causes a very large number of quite serious side effects . |
| 12 | Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority . |
| 13 | At the end of this stage the parents should be clear on exactly what it is they are being advised to do . |
| 14 | Well it 's he 's being very intelligent cos it 's much too big to be a cat . |
| 15 | It 's it 's is it ? |
| 16 | Oh no not an alarm it 's it 's be too expensive , no just an internal bell to frighten the hell out of them . |
| 17 | Very very angry cos to tell try and tell the truth and not believes is it 's is wrong . |
| 18 | My argument is it 's being done all in one go that we 're trying to do nine on one day . |
| 19 | But , is it is is is that true ? |
| 20 | It is in fact all oil , but for trying to understand the thing it 's better to try and break it down if we can , and that 's what 's being done here . |
| 21 | That 's what 's being said . |
| 22 | Yes , is that 's what 's being referred to erm by the university work , because I think it 's |
| 23 | That 's what is was it was a terrible system there , but that was the system , that was the system they carried through the quarries in all the years that are gone . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what is was about , you think ? ’ |
| 25 | He could meet the woman in the shop , pass through the curtain in the back make sure her husband was out , and fuck her , that 's what was being asked of him ; then help her , drop a word in the police chief 's ear , shrug his shoulders and wave his hands at the severity of the charges , promise on his professional honour that such a boy was hardly a threat . |
| 26 | It 's at its highest in rural areas , this is what 's being done . |
| 27 | I think the rights of fathers is what is being investigated in the narrative now . |
| 28 | That is what is being said by many . |
| 29 | What we are doing is what is being done er in the market generally there is nothing unique about British Airways position in this regard , in the event the European commission er should find against er our interest in this respect er they are in effect going to find against the interest er of the er European airlines as a whole , and that would be very detrimental to the interest of European business and travellers . |
| 30 | The authors of the report conclude : ‘ the Government is mistaken in its assertions about the use of local services … the retention of the rating system is a more attractive option if indeed a benefit tax is what is being sought ’ ( p. 28 ) . |