Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we are however is southwest of Alexandria . |
| 2 | Where we are now is |
| 3 | As his condition deteriorated he was sent to hospital where he is now being treated on a kidney dialysis machine . |
| 4 | We have farms with dioxin-contaminated milk which must be transferred to the west midlands , where it is not being destroyed at the proper temperature , so dioxin is being spread in the west midlands . |
| 5 | Although I 'm not being like one of these people who does everything and then tells everyone not to do it . |
| 6 | Er so you 're not Are you bothered one way or the other , or not ? |
| 7 | Montaner is simple , just a huge keep and a walled enclosure ; this , in fact , is a regular polygon of twenty sides , though the angles are so gentle with that many sides that the feeling you have once you are inside is that it is circular . |
| 8 | The idea of the golden age in which family responsibilities were stronger than they are today is clearly a myth , without foundation in historical evidence . |
| 9 | Aye , people were more serious in them days than they are now are n't they ? |
| 10 | So his er abilities to take decision are even er take decisions are even more limited now than they were then are n't they . |
| 11 | Which are quite frightening about opting out , erm some of you will remember that we 'd attended Welwyn Garden City on a picket a month ago , and erm as a result of campaigning there , within the hospital , with the press and the Council , they have been turned down so they are not being allowed to opt out . |
| 12 | Edward would come and live on Grace , which would save the rent he was paying on his rooms at present ; the girls , once they were not being prayed for at the grotto , would agree to go back to the nuns ; and with Tilda at school she could go out herself and look for a job . |
| 13 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 14 | It was their job to dredge the channel , so it 's not being done any more . ’ |
| 15 | Dennis is next with afternoon special , it 's Tuesday so it 's where are you now ? |
| 16 | It 's Dennis next Tuesday afternoon so it 's Where Are You Now on Afternoon Special , on the county 's favourite radio station , it 's B B C Radio Nottingham at two o'clock . |
| 17 | In a number of cases , however , there may be a tendency to regard it , rather , as a sort of libation to the gods — a project or programme acquiring a certain added respectability by being evaluated , but with no deep-seated resolve on the part of its organisers to make any substantial organisational or financial investment in change ( after all to contemplate fundamental change to a primary programme once it is underway is an exceptionally costly business ) . |
| 18 | If yours is still being mended , borrow your neighbour 's mower and cut the lawn . |
| 19 | If I was n't being held up by the man 's gripping hand hauling me through the ferns I feel like I 'd fall down . |
| 20 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 21 | If I 'm actually being charged every time I use my credit card I would n't use it . |
| 22 | His sordid affairs were none of her concern provided she was n't being asked to play the part of catalyst . |
| 23 | If she were really being unfaithful , she would n't behave like that , now would she . |
| 24 | If she was n't being paid by his rich over indulgent parents , she would have punished him there and then . |
| 25 | Challenged after the meeting by our reporter and asked if she was not being a bit melodramatic , Dorothy said : ’ ‘ It is disgraceful that you have gatecrashed a private meeting like this , and reported on thoughts that have not been fully developed yet . |
| 26 | If you are only allowed to use your ‘ company car ’ in connection with your job , you will probably not be entitled to compensation for loss of the right to use it during your notice period if you are not being asked to work . |
| 27 | Can you be treated with homoeopathy if you are already being treated with orthodox medicine ? |
| 28 | If you are still being defied take the child by the wrist to the chair in the hall . |
| 29 | So it 's , if you 're overtime is at the grade C level , or the workload is at the grade C level , then you 're bet it 's cheaper to get overtime done than it is to get temps . |
| 30 | Even if we 're not being followed , Matilda 's men hold most of the castles in this part of the country . |