Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people looking after chickens do not identify with individual chickens and , as has been said already , very large numbers of animals should not be being looked after by very small numbers of people who have no incentive to treat them as individuals . |
| 2 | As the Middle East burns under a potent combination of Western information technology and chemical ‘ ordnance ’ , the benign third wave may now be being drowned in a less benign fourth or fifth wave . |
| 3 | They may even be being strengthened . |
| 4 | Normally , any government trying this sort of trick would soon be being ordered to pay out in the courts . |
| 5 | So , I shall do it when they 've gone home and then I 'll , at least I 'll know , that it wo n't it wo n't be being undone . |
| 6 | It 's a disaster , of course it ‘ s a disaster , he 'll be banned from the US for ever presumably ; but at least he wo n't be being interfered with in some unspeakable foreign nick . ’ |