Example sentences of "they [am/are] being [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the taco shells on a baking sheet open end down — this will prevent them from closing while they are being heated . |
| 2 | The limitation is that the people under observation may well feel rather acutely that they are being observed and may react against the observers , act unnaturally and perhaps even lie . |
| 3 | The uncertainty about whether they are being observed discourages military activity in some nations , says Washington . |
| 4 | Nor is the observer 's paradox an issue , since speakers are not tape-recorded and are not even aware that they are being observed . |
| 5 | The very fact that subjects know that they are being observed may change their responses . |
| 6 | This format makes it easy to fit the words to the ( edited ) pictures and to cue them to the start of each section so that they all come at the right place when they are being recorded onto the video sound track . |
| 7 | He writes : ‘ The Munros are n't just being climbed they are being bludgeoned , they are being raped . ’ |
| 8 | Rarely has it ever been recorded that a fatality has occurred from snakebite during the festival ; the Cobras appear to know that they are being revered . |
| 9 | They feel that Shetlanders do not appreciate the sacrifices they are making : instead they suspect they are being regarded by Shetlanders as a nuisance not really to be welcomed and as far as possible to be ignored altogether . |
| 10 | They are being trained in the use of the twenty-two calibre revolver . |
| 11 | Girls in school uniform , women in hospital nightgowns , mothers struggling with poverty , who have no time or money to spend on their appearance , can feel that they are being depersonalized . |
| 12 | There is no serious dissent from the general proposition that we should have a system which combines a thorough examination of all individual claims , a clear exposition of the criteria against which they are being assessed , all proper speed and then a clear decision , whether positive or negative , and an effective right of appeal before removal for those whose claims have been rejected . |
| 13 | YOUR FELLOW AGENTS WERE INTERCEPTED BY CASTRO 'S MEN YESTERDAY — TODAY THEY ARE BEING FED TO THE CRABS |
| 14 | Since they are scavengers by nature , in addition to their hunting instincts , many dogs will steal food even when they are being fed properly and are not suffering from illness . |
| 15 | Not only does this protect them from larger fish , it is easier to ensure they are being fed , since the powder food stays within the confines of the net and I now have 14 miniature mollies swimming free in the tank , all of which seem healthy , feeding on adult food . |
| 16 | But if politicians also believe that they are being fed distorted and incorrect information by budget-maximizing bureaucrats and that the resources they vote to the administration will be used inefficiently , they will reduce their allocations . |
| 17 | The victims of this kind of deviance may be unaware in the absence of a perceptible physical threat that they are being victimized . |
| 18 | Few scholars have been allowed to see them since they were discovered but now they are being examined , one phrase is causing a heated arguement . |
| 19 | They are being constructed by operating divisions of SGE — SOGEA and Norwest Holst respectively . |
| 20 | They are being engaged in activities which have a direct relevance to work they are already involved in , and which they can see are designed to help them do this work more effectively . |
| 21 | As a result clinical ecologists are shifting their focus away from allergy and towards toxicology , telling patients that they are being poisoned by minute doses of everyday substances or even by domestic electricity . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , pupils know that language occurs in many forms : they are being invited to listen to Geordie speech here for example , yet they know that not everyone speaks in this way . |
| 23 | It is essential that patients are told why they are being isolated and the reason for the various precautions should be explained . |
| 24 | If this is the case , it implies that some at least of the feedback systems maintaining human wellbeing may be in difficulties simply because they are being called upon to function near the limits of their capacity . |
| 25 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 26 | But the interests they are being called upon to safeguard are not even those of Bentham 's questionable Utilitarian objective : it is not to champion the interests of the majority — the greatest happiness of the greatest number — that this new technology is being summoned . |
| 27 | A spokesman explained : ‘ They are being called in because visibility is so bad . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you would expect the majority of modules to be certificated successfully because they are being run by professional staff in centres which have been validated — in other words the centre 's resources , staff and support systems have been found to be adequate to run each module . |
| 29 | When justices are advised not to have regard to statements of evidence and to medical reports on that ground they are being deprived of potentially valuable material in these difficult cases and I wish to make it clear that hearsay evidence is available to assist the court in all these cases although its weight will always be a matter for the judgment of the court . |
| 30 | ‘ We think they are being shot for meat when they land in Afghanistan , ’ she said . |