Example sentences of "[pers pn] be being " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present there are no more than half-a-dozen British products in the fields covered by Alvey and most of them are being used experimentally . |
| 2 | Barn owls need barns or similar buildings for breeding , and more and more of them are being converted into country houses . |
| 3 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 4 | Some of them are being taught in dining halls , store rooms and offices . |
| 5 | Many of them are being forced to turn the crop into cattle feed because Britain has more potatos than it needs . |
| 6 | Lot of them are being sacked off the bloody telly in n it ? |
| 7 | I 'm just trying to remember everybody in the same afternoon , to collect them all because of about six of them are being done around here |
| 8 | And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing . |
| 9 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
| 10 | Lesley and even Emma and I are being seen as lads , unfeminine , trying to be blokes . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps I am being selfish , ’ she writes . |
| 12 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 13 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 14 | Now I am being besieged by offers of films in Hollywood and other areas . |
| 15 | When I am being helped into a bath of hot water , however , I draw in my breath and cry out for her : ‘ Mama ! |
| 16 | ‘ I am being realistic , I want the best for all of us . ’ |
| 17 | I have myself devised many staff plans over the years , and I do not believe I am being unduly boastful if I say that very few ever needed amendment . |
| 18 | But the reality is , ladies and gentlemen , I am being merciful . |
| 19 | In conversation with my French boyfriend the other day , he said , ‘ I am being quite Fred with you ’ . |
| 20 | I am being objective , not self-pitying , because quite honestly I am not much interested in men anyway . |
| 21 | Indeed every second customer is probably just like me , but the charade is going to be played out on the basis that I am being difficult . |
| 22 | They are enjoying themselves — I am being excluded/rejected/ abandoned/ignored . |
| 23 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 24 | ‘ That is what I am being paid to find out . |
| 25 | It is not love when the concern is the fact that I am being inconvenienced , but it is when the concern is for the damage that is being done to my partner and our relationship . |
| 26 | I thought : I am being psychoanalysed . |
| 27 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
| 28 | Her core beliefs were ‘ I have no right to be alive ’ and , with somewhat convoluted logic , ‘ I am being forced to stay alive as a punishment for being born . ’ |
| 29 | Some weeks later , discussing the arts , she admitted the English sense of humour was difficult to understand initially , and only now could she laugh at my greeting of , ‘ Help , I am being bitten by a sanitary towel ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I am being very puzzled , my friend , ’ said the young Pakistani . |