Example sentences of "[be] [being] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I 'm not I 'm not disputing that , all I 'm saying is the question is , whether we 're using the monies we 're being given to fund it in the right way . |
| 2 | From the opening stomp of the title track , a joyous collusion of The Glitter Band and M 's ‘ Pop Musik ’ , to the final rip-roaring ‘ I 'm Against The Eighties ’ , ‘ Back In Denim ’ is such a labour of love , so insanely , often painfully personal that it raises a smile even as we 're being made to feel ashamed that we allow our music to be hijacked and controlled by them . |
| 3 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 4 | Logical members include Tadpole Technology plc , Harris Computer Systems Division , Groupe Bull SA and Thomson CSF : they 're being asked to kick in $1m apiece in the first year , the fee will drop in the second . |
| 5 | Motion two four seven , John , you 're being asked to withdraw . |
| 6 | Giving what we 're being asked to do we do need to have something that focus on general skills and abilities , we 've got ta decide what they are . |
| 7 | Okay , right , erm it 's nearly time to go , but before we do , can I just give you some bits and pieces , you , you may well have copies of last year 's exam paper , but if you have n't , this is for development and integration of trade er , have a look at those sorts of essays you 're being asked to do . |
| 8 | And deal with the issue actually on the Economic Development Committee budget , because er , I mean in a sense , Economic Development Committee has n't always played the game , you never know when you 're being asked to identify target reductions by an authority , they have found those target reductions , so have the Planning Committee , so have Trading Standards . |
| 9 | And yet the impact on us is considerable , and I 'm seriously wondering whether the major spending committees ought not to look again at the budgets that they 're erm , and I 've discussed this with , and obviously education is the big problem , but er , I 'm not convinced that erm , the sums of money which we 're being asked to pay out , not be taken from the education budget without too dra drastic an effect on the school . |
| 10 | And , and so then they , they 're a bit miffed that instead of the B one they 're being asked to complete a U B four six one , a U B six seven one . |
| 11 | Now we either are going in the direction this morning , or rather I think you 're being pressed to go in the direction of seeking to identify in due course , what is the preferred general location , and this undoubtedly is something you can hang your hat on . |
| 12 | And , I said and you 're being supported to stay here ! |
| 13 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 14 | If you know that employers are using immigrants as cheap labour , and that they 're being used to undercut your rates of pay , you 're going to be against that . |
| 15 | They 're being used to thin out trees . |
| 16 | with , everything is being reduced , and everything is being squeezed , we 're looking at the , the mentally er , handicapped people er , and their report , we 're being pressurized to look after them as well . |
| 17 | They 're being urged to take extra care until more vaccines are available . |
| 18 | Recent surveys show that sausages , chips and burgers are still favourites with children yet they 're just the type of foods we 're being told to cut down on . |
| 19 | You 're being recommended to accept . |
| 20 | Motion one five three , you 're being recommended to accept . |
| 21 | Again you 're being recommended to accept . |
| 22 | Motion one six three , you 're being recommended to accept . |
| 23 | Similarly four one five you 're being recommended to accept . |
| 24 | They 're being encouraged to slap on this parking ticket which claims pavements are for people |
| 25 | Before I am going to talk about er urodynamic evaluation of patients with symptoms of outflow obstruction , I think it 's a good time to be talking about this when , particularly in North America , we 're being encouraged to move towards a questionnaire or score in order to select patients for treatment , whether that treatment be surgical treatment or , or other treatment . |
| 26 | Now they 're being allowed to keep their jobs for 2 more months , while the Council tries to find a private company to run the workshop on its behalf . |
| 27 | I think it 's because I 'm being made to do physics that I 'm rebelling against it . |
| 28 | A shareholders ' meeting is now understood to be being planned to discuss the future of the banking operation . |
| 29 | While the entry price is likely to be high , price-performance should show a big advance on the current generation of mainframes , but it is questionable whether there will be big demand for the machines : sceptics will point out that once again MVS , and this time DB2 as well , will be being asked to do something that they were never designed to do . |
| 30 | Normally , any government trying this sort of trick would soon be being ordered to pay out in the courts . |