Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where nothing 's being produced , can it ? |
| 2 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 3 | 3.1 Module descriptors which have been reviewed for session 1987–88 ( eg Music Making modules ) or which are being introduced in session 1987–88 for the first time are identified in the National Catalogue by a first digit 7 . |
| 4 | IF anyone in the Government has a conscience , I hope it was pricked by your terribly moving picture of Belinda Giles asking Santa to keep open London 's St Bartholomew 's Hospital , where she is being treated for cancer . |
| 5 | Mrs Rees , 43 , an activity organiser at Trees Park Village near Middleton St George , was ‘ satisfactory ’ in Middlesbrough General Hospital , where she is being treated for facial wounds . |
| 6 | Patricia was under heavy sedation at her home where she is being comforted by relatives . |
| 7 | The family must be prepared to develop contact with the black community in order that the child does not feel that he or she is being cut off from his or her roots , which often creates the condition whereby negative images emerge . |
| 8 | Things on the menu must not be available to the child at times other than when he or she is being rewarded . |
| 9 | We 've got a problem at the moment , which is very nasty … where we are being faced with a barrage of patois . |
| 10 | Here are some suggestions that you can follow : try to go where something is being done that you can either watch or participate in . |
| 11 | I do n't know whether it 's just our standards are going up , or there 's are going down . |
| 12 | Most of them have no shoes and have no idea where they are being led to in their journey several hundred miles across the semi-desert . |
| 13 | If we keep our nerve long enough it may give the police time to find out where they are being held . ’ |
| 14 | They also thrive in Kenya on a farm at 1,800m above sea level , in a wet savannah climate where they are being used to improve native cattle . |
| 15 | It was over forty years before a trail led to Whitewright , Texas , where they were being offered for sale by the descendants of Joe Tom Meador , the lieutenant in question , who had died in 1980 . |
| 16 | Legislators were clearly concerned for those who had entered marriages where they were being harmed and mistreated by their partners . |
| 17 | Where he were being accused . |
| 18 | They said he had been taken to a nearby farmhouse where he was being given shelter for the time being , and that his name was Eric . |
| 19 | The defendant opened the door , to ask his friend where he was being taken . |
| 20 | The defendant was arrested when he again opened the door to find out from his friend where he was being taken . |
| 21 | Adam did n't reply ; he was more concerned about working out where he was being held . |
| 22 | He was told that , if he behaved himself in the segregation block where he was being held , he would be allowed to make a call to his father who was seriously ill . |
| 23 | The upshot was that Hauptmann Alfred Horn — if that was indeed his name — had been transferred next morning from the Tower to a miserable country house near Aldershot called Mytchett Place , where he was being held under extremely heavy guard . |
| 24 | Of course , where the money is no longer legal tender as seen with half crown coins and sixpences in R v Thompson [ 1980 ] QB 229 , or where it is being transferred because of its curiosity value ( Moss v Hancock [ 1899 ] 2 QB 111 ) , or because of its inherent value such as Krugerrands , in these circumstances " money " can be considered to be " goods " for the purposes of the statutory definition . |
| 25 | It covers every aspect of the entire time that participants are present in the city or town where it 's being held . |
| 26 | This should be done with sensitivity , however , as it may cause anxiety should the neophyte teacher feel that she or he is being assessed in teaching skills , especially if the member of teaching staff is unfamiliar . |
| 27 | He was being pumped , or he was being warned . |
| 28 | Only when children can do this confidently can counting have any meaning , as counting is simply matching objects ( or people , or whatever is being counted ) with numbers . |
| 29 | There were no moving parts at all , the joystick was simply tipped from the vertical in the direction the user wished to go and , seemingly by magic , the spaceship or whatever was being displayed moved . |
| 30 | The writer of this essay should have noticed the possibility of an ambiguity or difficulty for the reader in tracing the reference back , and could have solved the problem by replacing the ambiguous word " this " with a phrase which makes clear who or what is being referred to , such as , perhaps " That Sir William should feel this is not surprising since he had been knighted . " |