Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [is] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman implies that nothing is being done . |
| 2 | ‘ Well I agree that someone 's being misled , ’ Gina retorted impatiently . |
| 3 | It means that someone is being kept out of the know , and it 's often been me in the past , and it 's me now . |
| 4 | Once you have concluded that someone is being autocratic this is likely to become self-reinforcing . |
| 5 | It is easier , for example , to conclude that someone is being abrupt if you only have what they say and how they say it to go on . |
| 6 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 7 | It is important to make a definite decision about this right from the start , without letting her feel in any way that she is being given a weekly or monthly ‘ ration ’ of her family 's free time , as a duty rather than a pleasure . |
| 8 | To see that she is being taxed correctly by the Inland Revenue . |
| 9 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 10 | I think she would have a very hard time providing leadership , especially now that she is being perceived as more beholden to Washington than to the Filipino people . " |
| 11 | Finally , being delegated to do something means that one is being trusted . |
| 12 | More prosaically , resistance to delegation may stem from the conviction that one is being over exploited , being asked to do considerably more work but without any increase in pay . |
| 13 | Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue . |
| 14 | However , it will say that everything is being done to see that whatever attempts that are made on the whereabouts of its disclosures will be judged by their predicament and a positive answer will be prepared . |
| 15 | Charity salves our conscience , allows us to feel that something is being done , that what is being done is sufficient , and that we have played our part in doing it . |
| 16 | The film viewer sees a wide range of technical devices — split-screen , slow motion , fast motion , various kinds of fades — that enable the storyteller to indicate that something happened earlier ( the ‘ flash-back ’ ) or that something will happen in the future , or that something is being dreamt or fantasized . |
| 17 | For most of us , some evidence of increased or decreased neural activity after the onset of some experimental condition seems sufficient evidence that something is being encoded , but as Burns and Lennie have pointed out ( Burns 1968 ; Lennie 1981 ) , the brain has no knowledge of these outside events . |
| 18 | By imply we mean that something is being suggested indirectly . |
| 19 | When a matter of serious public concern arises which leads to a great deal of media interest , someone in central office says , ’ We must show that something is being done . ’ |
| 20 | If the price of the monetarist experiment has been consistently high levels of unemployment , then someone has to say sorry , to try to explain why all the pain is necessary , and to give the impression that something is being done to help . |
| 21 | One of the tragedies of the church is that people come to find true community , but all that there is is pseudo-community in which masked people abound . |
| 22 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 23 | I I 've got a bill to come in from the electrician for his call-out charge he diagnosed that it 's was not an electrical fault and then thought it was an electrical fault by the noise , it was making a fizzing noise but he does n't th he said it 's , it 's the pump the pump is on the way out it needs replacing house is built in nineteen eighty five ! |
| 24 | Finding people and educating and training them without them being aware that it 's being done is very important . |
| 25 | I now find that it 's being invaded by ex-CRASH staff , and the mag is becoming more like Playboy with every issue . |
| 26 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 27 | I think we should express our concern in the way that it 's being handled and I think there are grounds for concern and I think must be aware that this Council is watching what they 're doing . |
| 28 | Erm s that 's my general s there 's no doubt that there are a great deal of activities there as always of course when one is spending a lot of new money quite rapidly , one has to monitor it very carefully to make sure that it 's being effectively spent , and I 'm sure the director and this committee will continue to do that . |
| 29 | and the market that it 's being offered to . |
| 30 | We have n't seen an enormous amount of Ecstasy , but we are aware that it 's being used in the region . ’ |