Example sentences of "and [pron] be [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's probably more than a lot of people did , and everyone 's being urged to use condoms , but how many people are actually given any instruction on how to use them ? |
| 2 | Patients believe that their doctor , to the best of his or her ability , is following two rules : everything that is beneficial is being done , and nothing is being done that is not directly beneficial . |
| 3 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 4 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
| 5 | Lesley and even Emma and I are being seen as lads , unfeminine , trying to be blokes . |
| 6 | I 've got all day and I 'm being paid . ’ |
| 7 | I 've done a terrible thing and I 'm being chased right now Vic well more or less like you know . |
| 8 | I have done wrong and I 'm being punished for it , and nobody can help me . ’ |
| 9 | The alternative is that and I 'm being provocative quite deliberately , I am left with an impression that what the County Council have done is add together input from district councils to prepare its structure plan . |
| 10 | We 're on holiday and I 'm being left on my own . |
| 11 | They said my girlfriend and I were being unrealistic . |
| 12 | A nice night 's sleep seems like a nice change , but nightmares have habits of popping up , once when I was five I had a dream that my friends and I were being ripped apart and eaten by a giant , now when the time comes to go into that great big C D tea room in the sky , could you change something ? |
| 13 | Yet studiously , subtly , with no obvious exertion on Edward 's part , Laura and I were being kept at a distance . |
| 14 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 15 | It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed . |
| 16 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 17 | I stretched out my whole body into the petals so that every square millimetre of my skin was softly touched , I wiggled my fingers and toes among the sweet perfumes … and I was being embraced . |
| 18 | After the excitement died down , and I was being congratulated by my wee brother and the others , I looked up at the Edelmans ' window . |
| 19 | Everything in Jean-Claude 's life had been decided before he met me , and I was being fitted into a preordained pattern . |
| 20 | ‘ Damn and I was being so clever fooling you I never looked behind . |
| 21 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 22 | ‘ You were strange with me the last days and I was being so awful . |
| 23 | After all , I was an unknown and I was being asked to join up with players who were even then household names . |
| 24 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 25 | yeah and I was being sly about it , going down the lane not standing right outside his house , right . |
| 26 | Ian Hay leads his troops of visiting anglers with similar verve and spirit , and fishing at Scourie is organised with almost military precision ; using a system that is exclusive to the hotel and which is being increasingly emulated by other Scottish fishing establishments . |
| 27 | Another recent innovation is that of biotechnology , which involves the use of organisms ( especially bacteria ) in industrial and technological processes and which is being applied to a variety of environmental management problems such as waste treatment . |
| 28 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | A favourite outing was to the nearby medieval castle of Pierrefonds , which the Emperor had given his wife as a present and which was being restored by the architect Viollet-le-Duc . |
| 30 | What do you do when you need information and nobody is being helpful ? |