Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] is [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble with the right hon. Member for Guildford ( Mr. Howell ) — I say this without malice — is that when he says that he is being cheerful , he still sounds gloomy . |
| 2 | If he disturbs a trespasser , for example , and tells him that he is about to use force to expel the intruder , there is no doubt that the intruder realises that he is being threatened , and that violence is about to be used against him . |
| 3 | Edwards also states that he is being driven by environmental concern and that climbers are wearing the crags away in some place . |
| 4 | It seems that it is being said that , with the onset of the campaigns , the Department feared a flood of ’ non-specific applications ’ and therefore withdrew the original regulations and laid new regulations , to come into force the following day . |
| 5 | He finds that he is being offered a simple trade-off : a comfortable job as a stock-checker if he will provide incriminating information about himself which the Maltster can then pass on to the Party . |
| 6 | At one point he faints , and as he slowly regains consciousness he imagines that he is being ordered to ‘ merge ’ through ‘ osmosis ’ ( 109/111 ) . |
| 7 | Finally , being delegated to do something means that one is being trusted . |
| 8 | It means that someone is being kept out of the know , and it 's often been me in the past , and it 's me now . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman implies that nothing is being done . |
| 10 | He further demonstrates that what is being tested is often the social conventions of a dominant class , rather than universal logic . |
| 11 | AI believes that he is being made to answer for his active involvement in the Sudan Doctors ' Union and left-wing politics , his role in the non-violent protests which led to the overthrow of President Nimeiri in April 1985 and his outspoken criticism of the current government . |