Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's a cruel thing to say , but it 's been done to me often enough in the past : you find yourself saying ordinary things and the person next to you is suddenly being witty . |
| 2 | That it is simply being this is why we feel that the role of the structure policies is to provide that er into local plan policies . |
| 3 | The Ego imagines that it is somehow being empathic to increase the suffering in the world by adding our own . |
| 4 | ‘ In fairness to the board it must be emphasised that it is not being unco-operative . |
| 5 | For her it is not being easy . |
| 6 | It is not being stupid . |
| 7 | It says : ‘ It is not being beautiful or being born of noble family that makes one a lady . |
| 8 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 9 | It is n't being critical at all but on this position situation that might the first thing that we |
| 10 | But Rod , I I sti I think it is also is good preparation for year eleven . |
| 11 | As it is there are thousands of girls like me , and at least we have the comfort of knowing that he belonged to no one , and can belong to no one . |
| 12 | Th the the the paper through our house it is actually is black paper and you paint on it . |
| 13 | Where our flats are , all it is now is green and trees and everything . |
| 14 | We have kept to the original theme of our estate because we believe it is only being fair to those who have chosen to live here . ’ |
| 15 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 16 | I think the reason why it is so is that Darwinism is , in essence , a theory about the origin of man — a lot of things as well , but it includes a theory about how we came to be here . |
| 17 | WHEN Graham Gabriel says he needs three actors who can learn lines quickly and accurately he is not being over-dramatic . |
| 18 | Moreover , when Dickens alludes in Bleak House to ‘ a hemmed-in churchyard , pestiferous and obscene , whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed ’ , he is not being metaphorical . |
| 19 | ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah , well he is n't being nice to me ! |
| 21 | He is a renowned and honourable man , but with regard to this matter he is either being naive or obtuse . |
| 22 | He gets the message — he is only being friendly |
| 23 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |