Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things I found out about this one , is that , welder 's lung is still not recognized as an industrial disease er of all this time , and yet , if you have welder 's lung by er using stainless steel , it is , but it comes under asthma , so that 's something that we feel that should be being pushed by the G M B. |
| 2 | Your objective should be being at least there should n't it ? |
| 3 | She and the pole must be being drawn towards the sea . |
| 4 | The offence must be a ‘ serious arrestable ’ one ; the investigation must be being ‘ conducted diligently and expeditiously ’ ; and there must be a need to secure or preserve evidence or ‘ to obtain such evidence by questioning him ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 5 | If objections based on uncertainty have any validity , then that word must be being used in a third sense . |
| 6 | And I hasten to say it , governments of all persuasions assume it must be being done . |
| 7 | ‘ I found very questionable that it was no ( or little ) concern that investors ’ capital might be being eroded' |
| 8 | Where there is concern that students might be being exploited by Compact employers , the Compact Directors should raise the issue immediately with the organisation concerned . |
| 9 | Any idea what gas might be being produced ? |
| 10 | He thought he could hear voices now ; silvery , gentle voices , dark voices , that made you think you might be being watched . |
| 11 | A Scottish solicitor , George Hann , told the charity it might be being set up but he believes it reacted too slowly and as a result the fraudsters were able to escape . |
| 12 | Many people in Russell 's Water think they know what happened to Jim Eggleton , and think the killer could be being protected locally . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , something seems to be happening ; a new political machine may be being cranked up . |
| 14 | For example , a doctor may be able to see more patients each hour and he may be being more efficient by seeing more people in a fixed period of time . |
| 15 | Many older patients who probably neither had asthma nor died of asthma may be being entered into the statistics for asthma mortality because of inappropriate use of the word asthma on death certificates , diagnostic transfer , or coding changes . |
| 16 | Teachers and librarians can not always resist the uneasy thought that they may be being given the soft sell : like demythologizing theologians laughing too heartily at our ideas of what religious doctrine involves , perhaps the educational technologist 's bland " all we are saying is " is simply the prelude to smuggling all the old gadgetry back again while our backs are turned ? |
| 17 | In a worse condition , if a company allowed up to five versions of any drawing to be saved , with drawing blank and logo — as much as 98 per cent of redundant data may be being stored and maintained . |
| 18 | I may be being a bit paranoid , but if there is any bother , it will be the ones decked out as Leeds fans that get the trouble . |
| 19 | The numbers of baby eels in Scandinavian and European rivers are also declining , and the NRA believe that the depopulation may be being caused by an unknown factor , possibly pollution , in the Atlantic . |
| 20 | Research has indicated how radioactive contaminants may be being introduced into the human food chain via the migration of wildfowl through the Chernobyl region . |
| 21 | The most striking finding , however , is that the warming effect caused by greenhouse gases may be being slowed both by the effects of sulphur dioxide pollution , and also by the depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 22 | But , having said that , we have tried in the Ministry of Defence where market testing has been the order of the day to say that it 's confusing , that would be being polite , Mr Chairman . |
| 23 | The icing on the cake would be being able to reunite people with property they 've had stolen . |
| 24 | While the entry price is likely to be high , price-performance should show a big advance on the current generation of mainframes , but it is questionable whether there will be big demand for the machines : sceptics will point out that once again MVS , and this time DB2 as well , will be being asked to do something that they were never designed to do . |
| 25 | This can , in fact , be the most productive teaching time , because the children will be involved in very real problems and their skills will be being rigorously tested . |
| 26 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |