Example sentences of "be n't [being] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victims and health authorities agree that services are n't being properly coordinated , but one authority has promised to try to find a consultant to sort out the problem . |
| 2 | It 's particularly important because I , I think that these er strategic plans are n't being terribly well received in the D O E and they will only succeed if there is er solid agreement to present . |
| 3 | Just think what might have happened , of course , if all those folk were n't being forever vigilant . |
| 4 | They were n't being deliberately rude — it was just hard for them to concentrate . |
| 5 | You were n't being very nice to us . |
| 6 | The M15 follow-on to the current i860 XP has n't been cancelled , but Intel is n't being very specific about what is going to happen to it . |
| 7 | And we can safely bet that it is n't being so generous . |
| 8 | He enclosed a sample of cloth with his letter to prove his words and demonstrate that he was n't being unduly extravagant . |
| 9 | When his or her car was n't being illegally clamped , stolen , broken into , photographed by a Gatso camera or failing the MoT emissions test , it was costing an arm and a leg to insure . |
| 10 | Mild advice to stop shouting and come back to bed because he was n't being very effective did little to deter Charles from a sense of deep injustice . |
| 11 | Gwen Evans was n't being very helpful . |
| 12 | He wanted her to talk but he was n't being very successful , her answers were as near monosyllabic as she could make them . |
| 13 | So you 'd say well we must have let let's say that I was n't being that helpful |
| 14 | She was n't being quite fair either when she said — to herself — that that was how she thought of him , as a brother . |
| 15 | I knew I was n't being terribly respectful , but I just cupped the telephone , looked her up and down and said : ‘ Well , you could put some shoes on . ’ |