Example sentences of "[is] being said [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You think I do n't have the right to know what 's being said behind my back ? ’
2 Well , I ca n't let you listen to what 's being said in the entire house without having access to the entire house .
3 It is being said with some conviction that Labour inflicted a serious blow on itself with that Sheffield monster rally .
4 Listening actively is demonstrated by concentration , affirming what is being said with nods , facial expressions , and short supportive or clarifying remarks to show the listener is responding .
5 Even in more casual situations people often try to get at the upshot of what is being said with such utterances as ‘ What are you trying to tell me ? ’
6 4 The interview While you are having the conversation , concentrate : on what is being said on staying in role — being the person you are supposed to be on keeping your conversation realistic on not showing off
7 Few would doubt that the same is being said at Mercedes .
8 but , but we , we , we might come across this again a bit later on th that i it 's entirely possible that what is being said at the early part is n't actually borne out by the details that come later on .
9 Indeed , through the fact that he is spoken of as though there present , something different is being said of Christ than of anyone else .
10 This can be augmented through the skill of matching what is being said to the known personal circumstances of the counsellee .
11 We are often so anxious to talk , to express our views or to make our point , that we often fail to listen to what is being said to us .
12 The better your listening skills the better your understanding of what is being said to you .
13 Secondly , if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you .
14 AB WE TEL MIN The sensation that one neither agrees nor disagrees with what is being said to one , but that one simply wishes to depart from the presence of the speaker
15 The second is the presence in some manuscripts of short expansions of the text which tend to tie in very explicitly what is being said to the Incarnation of Christ .
16 ‘ As long as nothing offensive is being said during Eircell mobile phone conversations , we have no power to stop anybody using them for any purpose , however peculiar . ’
17 I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face .
18 It is no weakness to take notice of what is being said in such a consultation .
19 Verbatim notes are used where you want to record everything that is being said in a lecture or copy exactly what appears in print in a book or magazine article .
20 That is what is being said by many .
21 A customer carefully notes what is being said by John Gordon ( left ) .
22 If one looks behind what is being said by both sides , there is in fact little that divides them .
23 The listener is better able to recognise the grammar and syntactic structure of what is being said by using the information contained in the intonation : for example , such things as the placement of boundaries between phrases , clauses or sentences , the difference between questions and statements and the use of grammatical subordination may be indicated .
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