Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [pron] be being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kawawa referred to the ‘ confusion ’ which would result from people being given information which contradicted what they were being told by their own government through Government and party channels . |
| 2 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |
| 3 | ‘ I have to know what you 're being asked for . |
| 4 | It 's this stupid leaving me to guess what I 'm being nagged about . |
| 5 | How will they know what they are being held accountable for ? |
| 6 | Also , young children 's answers to examination questions may be off the mark , not because they do not know what they are being tested for , but because they misinterpret the examiner 's intention . |
| 7 | ‘ They are my punishment ; but I do not know what I am being punished for . |
| 8 | She did not bother to ask herself whether Holly would have done what she was being asked to do , or whether it was sensible to care what Holly thought . |
| 9 | No I think that we should wait and see what we 're being offered to us cos there 's a lot of er you know |
| 10 | Cos look what he 's being shown . |
| 11 | The voice at the other end was plainly over-excited and it took him a minute to disentangle what he was being told . |
| 12 | If we already know what we are being told — as " of course " implies — then the question immediately arises why we are being told again . |
| 13 | Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . |
| 14 | Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why , and also the possible effects they may have . |
| 15 | Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why , and also the possible effects they may have . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His excuse that he did not realise what he was being given was laughed at . |
| 18 | When Miss P said this to him Boy realised that he could n't actually imagine a man proposing something that he would n't want to do , or would n't at least want to try just once , but he understood what he was being told and he learnt that lesson well , thank God . |
| 19 | Basically , the expression means to use your wits to assess what you are being told . |