Example sentences of "[verb] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh right okay okay so I mean are are you saying that 's about confidence ? |
| 2 | As a follow-up , three workshops on bookselling are being held in Asia from April/July this year to early 1992 . |
| 3 | Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London . |
| 4 | However , what the net result of the activity has been is unclear , as DEC says it is now closing down its VLIW-on-Alpha work — having failed to enlighten us as to the reasons why — but , at the instruction level , it is thought that Multiflow 's trace compilers were being pressed into service to boost the speed at which the RISC could execute programmes . |
| 5 | What there has been is a steady process of learning that management and business is a pragmatic matter depending entirely on people and how they react . |
| 6 | It is a great struggle to maintain this kind of mental attitude , but how successful it has been is difficult to assess . |
| 7 | One of the biggest changes there has been is in the attitude towards people who have AIDS . |
| 8 | How widespread this development has been is difficult to judge . |
| 9 | Unfortunately little excavation has taken place in the interiors of these fortified sites and what has been is not very informative for , in many cases , the combination of stone-robbing and deep-ploughing has reduced even masonry buildings to amorphous scatters of stone . |
| 10 | for me to sign , I said I 'm sorry I 'm not signing them and I would n't sign any of them and he went back and he said alright then we 'll leave it in your husband 's name , I said yes you 'd better had cos he still owns the house , yet all those bills have come through , I 've had water rates come through in my name , I 've had the electricity come through it 's in my name , the only one bill that was never in his name , never has been is the telephone and that 's included |
| 11 | for sixth forms has been are being are reduced . |
| 12 | Another change of direction — rather than building and extending what has been been achieved during the past few years — could lead to yet another thoroughly dispiriting time for patients , and for those who work in the NHS . |
| 13 | ICL Plc has been been ringing the changes , not only with boardroom shuffles ( CI No 2,125 ) , but with a push towards what it calls more ‘ autonomous business groupings ’ and a greater emphasis on software and services , the area which accounted for some 60% of UK sales in 1992 . |
| 14 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 15 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 16 | The weight has been been un unreal . |
| 17 | Business has been been booming , especially on a Saturday . |
| 18 | One of her major contributions to WACC has been being involved in the impetus for representation of women in decision-making at all levels and the inclusion of women 's issues as a focus of WACC activity . |
| 19 | That er , er , little action has been taken in the last thirty forty years since this has been being discussed , erm , I think the first international conference erm , produced their own report in nineteen sixty . |
| 20 | Many smaller firms in Darlington have already been in touch with me about the jobs they say are being put at risk . ’ |
| 21 | The methods they used were were the same tactical methods |
| 22 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 23 | The revolts he mentioned were being led by dissident army officers in Sumatra and elsewhere . |
| 24 | Be that as it may , the work on the buildings , which it has been claimed were being constructed for a newly-constituted civitas capital , was at some time in the later second century violently interrupted and , with one exception , not resumed until the Severan period . |
| 25 | First category I suggest is is about attitude in the sense of liking , disliking . |
| 26 | Tonight the police hunt is being spread nationwide . |
| 27 | All the court wants to know is are you pleading guilty or not guilty . |
| 28 | And what I 'd like to know is is the board . |
| 29 | Because what we what we want to know is is those jobs where we have done well , because we can learn the bollocking lessons from them . |
| 30 | Numerous tropical hardwoods and hardwood products on sale in D-I-Y stores across Britain bear " eco labels " which claim that the wood comes from sustainable logging operations , or that the area in which they were felled is being reforested . |