Example sentences of "it [be] [being] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Costakis owns the world 's most distinguished private collection of Russian avant-garde art , and 22 important works from it are being offered for sale at Sotheby 's on 4 April . |
| 2 | One by one , the arguments that were said to justify it are being abandoned . |
| 3 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 4 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 5 | Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow . |
| 6 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 7 | Her body felt as if it were being wrapped in very , very tight bandages . |
| 8 | All the men in it were being held ‘ on suspicion ’ under the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Powers ) Act . |
| 9 | A little earlier when they 'd listened to the Army vehicle 's wireless her hearing had been so acute that every syllable spoken sounded as if it were being shouted directly into her ear . |
| 10 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 11 | Because it 's being pestered by flies . |
| 12 | It 's being cooped up in this place I know , but her brain is just … ’ |
| 13 | It 'll do him good to get out for a while ; it 's being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety . ’ |
| 14 | just would n't go in would it , unless it 's being stood right down |
| 15 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 16 | the elements for the powerboaters this weekend are water and wind … as the British Grand Prix returns after a two year gap … it 's being raced in cardiff and favourite to win is Steve Kerton of Gloucestershire … he 's lying second in the world championship … he 's going for the win but is happy to be back racing in britain |
| 17 | the elements for the powerboaters this weekend are water and wind … as the British Grand Prix returns after a two year gap … it 's being raced in cardiff and favourite to win is Steve Kerton of Gloucestershire … he 's lying second in the world championship … he 's going for the win but is happy to be back racing in britain |
| 18 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 19 | And we try to explain it by saying the craft is accelerating — it 's being pushed on by the rockets placed at that end of the craft . |
| 20 | The , because it 's being pushed back , cos the opposite force , when you push , something else always pushes back with erm if you push on this table , |
| 21 | Well people generally complain about sex on television so , the way it 's being presented . |
| 22 | Life there is more comfortable and humane than the old-style prisons , and it 's being seen as a model for the future . |
| 23 | It 's being seen as a first step towards opting out of the N H S. |
| 24 | And , therefore , the argument is of people whose backs are pinned to the wall before they 're questioned as it were , and that does n't make for a sober and calm discussion , especially as there is some doubt , I suspect , in the mind of ministers , but certainly in the mind of many people in the Conservative Party , about whether these great absolutes , this wall against which ministers and departments are nailed , really need exist in quite the form it 's being constructed or whether the whole issue could n't be handled in a rather more sensitive and relaxed way . |
| 25 | Now it 's being commercialised in earnest . ’ |
| 26 | as if she 'd spoken the words aloud , he informed her , ‘ It 's being renovated . |
| 27 | It 's being grown to make high quality paper and linen . |
| 28 | The tanker was searched by coastguards protected by the marines from H M S Brazen and was found to be carrying stores in breach of the UN embargo ; it 's being diverted to a nearby port on the coast of Amman for further investigations . |
| 29 | But er usually a baby will be contented if it 's being fed properly . |
| 30 | It 's being fed into a shredding machine as part of the city 's re-cycling scheme . |