Example sentences of "[be] [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | is part of which I think is just ridiculous and will be a nice well meaning democratic tolerant guy in but considering the history of those two countries I rather doubt it erm and I , I think the best way of securing er the safety of that population is actually to change the border before the borders are are fixed and settled and before these countries actually become independent . |
| 2 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 3 | My personal view is , they 're being optimistic and I 'm not sure it will ever happen . ’ |
| 4 | And just to rub it in , while you 're being impatient and grumpy they 're always cheerful and chatty — despite the freezing cold and the pouring rain . |
| 5 | I want the world to know how things stand , and that we 're being truthful and open and not ashamed or in any way put down . |
| 6 | I want to hope that I 'm being melodramatic and everything will settle back to the way it used to be , before all this ghastliness , but I doubt it . |
| 7 | If I stick up for myself he either ignores me or suggests that I 'm being impertinent and that I risk losing my job by being out-spoken . |
| 8 | So com wi th but we 've agreed , I 'm sorry if I 'm being repetitive and boring and the rest of it but comment , there would be a staff comment , how you use the rest of the space , assume there 's a double space is now left with you given the guidelines are issued . |
| 9 | Setting clear boundaries for the child 's behaviour is essential as once the child realizes that the parents are being consistent and firm in their reactions the problem behaviour will disappear . |
| 10 | Remove rude jokes and deliberate sexual innuendos , and also watch out for unintended double entendres which might make inebriated members of the audience laugh when you are being serious and sincere . |
| 11 | You are being stupid and impertinent , you 're beginning to irritate me . ’ |
| 12 | An instructor from Plas y Brenin and his student are being efficient and muscular on the Superdirect . |
| 13 | Observers of the stock market will interpret the low share price as a signal that the company 's assets are being under-utilised and that an efficient management could employ them more profitably . |
| 14 | ‘ You are being cynical and evasive . ’ |
| 15 | And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing . |
| 16 | If children are being quiet and good while out shopping many mothers ignore them and only respond once they are difficult . |
| 17 | Nonsense , said the Fundamentalists , it is the Civil Liberties people who are being illiberal and intolerant by presenting evolution as fact when it is only a theory . |
| 18 | ‘ Now packages are being refined and people are being asked to leave more quickly . |
| 19 | I know I am being stupid and the last thing I want to be is a possessive mother . |
| 20 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 21 | slightly different material but substantially the same n nature same scale of development , I believe that we have a track record that shows that we were are tough and will continue to be tough I |
| 22 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 23 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 24 | She said how glad she was they had somewhere nice to stay and that she hoped they were being good and making their beds and helping with the washing up and remembering to clean their teeth . |
| 25 | He no it 's summat entirely different , cos I says he were being sarcastic and keep your mouth shut if you ca n't speak normal . |
| 26 | The scientists were being cautious and so were the civil servants ; this meant that British politicians could happily continue to struggle over familiar issues until 1988 when a devastating drought enabled scientists in the USA to get the ear of the Senate and pour into it a story sufficiently sensational to alarm the rest of the Western world . |
| 27 | Perhaps they were being kind and he could have a bit , just a little … |
| 28 | ‘ All you have to do is be black and do n't curse the Jews directly , and the Jew will vote for the black in a second . |
| 29 | All you have to do is be alert and take those few basic precautions . |
| 30 | It 's bein' poor and 'omeless that does it . |