Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also implied that these illegal forces had been deployed in western Kenya where they were being used to foment ethnic violence [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 2 | They range I mean er the the er the er Prussian Austro-Prussian war of eighteen sixty six is is referred to as what the six weeks war and and erm the five , five weeks of that or or or whatever were were involved in peace negotiations . |
| 3 | Indeed every second customer is probably just like me , but the charade is going to be played out on the basis that I am being difficult . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not that I 'm being nasty |
| 7 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 8 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 9 | I thought that I was being stupid , so I gave it up . |
| 10 | Once you have concluded that someone is being autocratic this is likely to become self-reinforcing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jinny knew that she was being mean . |
| 13 | Her parents , although they loved their daughter , were not the most understanding of people and assumed that she was being disobedient . |
| 14 | For some reason I did n't believe her when she said this ; I was n't convinced that she was being straight . |
| 15 | But then she thought again of that motherly , homely face that seemed to radiate a simple gentleness and warmth , and she felt sure that she was being over-cautious , perhaps even slightly prejudiced in her feelings about Janice . |
| 16 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 17 | You 've every right to feel hard done by , so do n't start thinking that you 're being selfish . |
| 18 | It does n't necessarily mean you 're gon na get it but it means that you 're being true to yourself because you 're putting your point across . |
| 19 | ‘ Now that you are being honest with me , I think I can help you . ’ |
| 20 | Do not worry that you are being judgemental — we do not want to be judged for the pride we see in ourselves . |
| 21 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Let us suppose , just for one moment , that we are being over-optimistic , and that Doctor Morris will not reappear , as , of course , we hope and believe he will . |
| 24 | We may feel that we are being neurotic if we have a bad self-image , vain if we have a good one , or trivial to care at all . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | ‘ The NIO 's view was that we were being apocalyptic . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This is not to deny that there were unscrupulous landlords who were guilty of depopulation — the evidence that there were is clear . |
| 29 | Most people think that they 're being stupid if they have to ask a question they think that everyone else is n't probably thinking the same thing . |
| 30 | It 's not that they 're being racist |