Example sentences of "is [adv] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And yet all there is inside is one old Jew . |
| 2 | He gets the message — he is only being friendly |
| 3 | We have kept to the original theme of our estate because we believe it is only being fair to those who have chosen to live here . ’ |
| 4 | I think the reason why it is so is that Darwinism is , in essence , a theory about the origin of man — a lot of things as well , but it includes a theory about how we came to be here . |
| 5 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 6 | Gili is perhaps being charitable in forgetting Cantona 's fit of pique at a charity match against Torpedo Moscow four years ago . |
| 7 | That 's a cruel thing to say , but it 's been done to me often enough in the past : you find yourself saying ordinary things and the person next to you is suddenly being witty . |
| 8 | The Ego imagines that it is somehow being empathic to increase the suffering in the world by adding our own . |
| 9 | The interviewer who changes questions , who adds bits to questions , who generally messes about with the schedule , is not being clever , he/she is being a bad fieldworker . |
| 10 | ‘ In fairness to the board it must be emphasised that it is not being unco-operative . |
| 11 | But the support is not being available whenever parents ask for help . |
| 12 | That is not being predictable . ’ |
| 13 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 14 | Moreover , when Dickens alludes in Bleak House to ‘ a hemmed-in churchyard , pestiferous and obscene , whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed ’ , he is not being metaphorical . |
| 15 | WHEN Graham Gabriel says he needs three actors who can learn lines quickly and accurately he is not being over-dramatic . |
| 16 | Similarly , I , as an anthropologist , am attempting to draw attention to another level at which Greenfield is not being explicit : namely , the fact that what schooled children are doing has been learnt as a convention within a school system . |
| 17 | For her it is not being easy . |
| 18 | This is not being facetious ; the subject is not straightforward . |
| 19 | The finance minister , Otto Stich , reluctant to lose the SFr2 billion of revenue the tax brings in , is not being helpful . |
| 20 | It is not being stupid . |
| 21 | That is not being disingenuous : that is asking for the kind of conduct that used to be normal on both sides of the House . |
| 22 | Quite a common problem is not being able to get in and out of the bath . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's killed me , ’ she breathed , ‘ is not being able to touch you . ’ |
| 24 | Another example of giving in is not being able to say ‘ No ’ . |
| 25 | The s working at the centre I I can tell you that one of the especially being the activities officer which is what I am , one of the biggest problems with the centre , is not being able to put things on , it 's getting people to be interested in them . |
| 26 | One of the most difficult things is not being able to have the impromptu meetings with your colleagues . |
| 27 | It says : ‘ It is not being beautiful or being born of noble family that makes one a lady . |
| 28 | ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’ |
| 29 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 30 | The Minister is not being candid with the House . |