Example sentences of "[prep] what be being " in BNC.
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| 31 | For example , rather than dismiss the orthographic paragraph format to be found in newspaper articles as , in some way , a deviation from the ‘ true ’ paragraph structure of what is being written , it would be more appropriate for discourse analysts to describe the journalistic format as one form of written discourse organisation . |
| 32 | Speech act theory provides us with a means of probing beneath the surface of discourse and establishing the function of what is being said . |
| 33 | Even in more casual situations people often try to get at the upshot of what is being said with such utterances as ‘ What are you trying to tell me ? ’ |
| 34 | Identify utterances which try to formulate explicitly the upshot of what is being said . |
| 35 | A further type of clarification is achieved by formulations of the gist or the upshot ( cf. 3.14 ) of what is being said . |
| 36 | Discourse is reciprocal when there is at least a potential for interaction , when the sender can monitor reception and adjust to it — or , to put it another way , where the receiver can influence the development of what is being said . |
| 37 | Task 40 demonstrates that we do not approach difficult discourse in our own language by starting at the bottom levels and then patiently working our way towards the top and a general understanding of what is being said . |
| 38 | But whether or not this is done we have a great body of human testimony to the reality of what is being ( if still generally ) described . |
| 39 | However , I am assured by those who know that public persons — premiers in particular — do not become reconciled to criticism , and despite affecting not to be , they remain immensely conscious of what is being said and are troubled if what is said is not to their liking . |
| 40 | Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context . |
| 41 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 42 | A great deal of pleasure and interest is lost if the reader is not able to form mental pictures of what is being referred to , however fleetingly . |
| 43 | The culture of the student experience is one of a self-questioning voyage , not in any self-indulgent form , but rooted in a rigorous self-critical examination of what is being taught , learned and achieved . |
| 44 | That symbolism can be taken into account in assessing the ‘ threatening , abusive or insulting ’ quality of what is being done . |
| 45 | But unlike the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 , the test here is not whether or not the victim is likely to be provoked into responding violently , but whether he is likely to experience alarm , distress or harassment as a result of what is being done and said . |
| 46 | I would like to pursue both of these issues with the Welsh Office and would appreciate a better understanding of what is being achieved through the forum and how voluntary environmental bodies feel about the White Paper Second Year Report procedure , which requires the publication of a separate report for Wales . |
| 47 | However , CPRW also offers the following detailed criticism of what is being proposed : |
| 48 | It is often more difficult to assess the " shape " of the receiving organisation than the shape of what is being received . |
| 49 | I raised several different ideas of what is being assessed . |
| 50 | In scientific reports , the amount of imprecision being introduced , and the reasons for introducing it , are important elements in our evaluation of what is being said or written . |
| 51 | Most of what is being done by my Department |
| 52 | I suspect that , when people up and down the country realise the sheer horror of what is being proposed , they will recoil from such an open-ended commitment for massive local government spending . |
| 53 | an identification of what is being valued ; |
| 54 | You may find that your local environmental group publishes a list of what is being collected for recycling in your area . |
| 55 | There is a profound difference between the kind of problem-solving which encourages us to use reason in order to reach a solution and the awareness of Mystery which leads to feelings of wonder and awe and worship in the light of what is being contemplated . |
| 56 | These communication styles can be expected to induce difficulties in the listener 's ability to focus attention and handle the meaning of what is being said . |
| 57 | The listener is better able to recognise the grammar and syntactic structure of what is being said by using the information contained in the intonation : for example , such things as the placement of boundaries between phrases , clauses or sentences , the difference between questions and statements and the use of grammatical subordination may be indicated . |
| 58 | It was probably in 1937 that he and Tolkien had a conversation about their distaste for much of what was being published at that time . |
| 59 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 60 | Regardless of the experience of your senior nurse momentary aberrations do occur , particularly under pressure , and he or she may simply not have realised the implications of what was being asked . |