Example sentences of "he [be] [being] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not getting the best of scoring service at the moment … he s being used as the target . |
| 2 | This MAY be fair criticism — but we do nt know what he s being told or asked to do for the team . |
| 3 | He felt as if he were being fished . |
| 4 | When he saw Topaz climbing down a rough slope he brought Nero to a halt , an overwhelming surge of life running through him as if he were being born anew . |
| 5 | Harry whimpered as if he were being threatened . |
| 6 | The minister said that he felt as if he were being pursued by a wild animal and could only throw off his clothes to distract its attention . |
| 7 | as if he were being weighed . |
| 8 | Where he were being accused . |
| 9 | The young child will feel that he is being pushed out of the way to make room for someone much more important . |
| 10 | Alec Smith has gone to the MRA World Assembly in Switzerland , where he is being joined next week by one of the ANC leaders . |
| 11 | Now he is well , he is being wronged . |
| 12 | If he is being moved onto a chair with fixed arms , the chair is placed at an angle of about 45° to the bed , and the patient 's foot which is nearer the chair is placed slightly forwards relative to the other . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race . |
| 15 | These are given in songs to amuse the child , who is never told that he is being taught . |
| 16 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 17 | They have a picture of the sort of person the child should be and of the society he is being fitted for , and they aim to civilize an infant ‘ barbarian ’ , ruled by his wants and emotions , into that person . |
| 18 | The problem with this argument is , of course , that market forces may sometimes fail , owing to the fact that the customer may not be in a position from which to tell whether he is being treated fairly by the financial conglomerate . |
| 19 | Procedural rights are also seem as protecting human dignity by ensuring that the individual is told why he is being treated unfavourably , and by enabling him to take part in that decision . |
| 20 | Both relate to the social environment of the person with an established schizophrenic illness : while he is being treated for the disorder in hospital , and after he has been discharged into the community . |
| 21 | He was taken to Our Lady 's Hospital in Cashel where he is being treated for burns to his upper body . |
| 22 | He is being treated in Middlesbrough General Hospital for a dislocated jaw . |
| 23 | He is being replaced by Commander David Tucker , head of SO11 , the Yard 's intelligence section . |
| 24 | I think he is being favoured , but what does that matter ? |
| 25 | They argue that Mrs Aquino can heal old wounds by allowing the former dictator to come home , at the same time disarming his supporters who scream that he is being done an injustice . |
| 26 | Now he is being asked to sacrifice his future , and , if we remember the course of the story so far , God 's future for the world . |
| 27 | The idea being conveyed by such notions as the surrender of private judgment … is that in obeying , say , a command simply because it comes from someone accorded the right to rule , the subject does not make his obedience conditional on his own personal examination and evaluation of the thing he is being asked to do . |
| 28 | Naturally , some parent companies are reluctant to give sweeping guarantees , but the arguments in favour of them are strong from the expatriate 's point of view , especially if he is being asked to transfer from the parent to a less substantial overseas subsidiary . |
| 29 | For as the election draws ever-nearer , he is being asked to make what for him must be the ultimate sacrifice : from time to time , he is actually having to be nasty . |
| 30 | It should be within the competence of everyone of moderate ability who has worked properly and who directs his mind to what he is being asked . |