Example sentences of "[conj] they be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also thrive in Kenya on a farm at 1,800m above sea level , in a wet savannah climate where they are being used to improve native cattle . |
| 2 | If we keep our nerve long enough it may give the police time to find out where they are being held . ’ |
| 3 | Most of them have no shoes and have no idea where they are being led to in their journey several hundred miles across the semi-desert . |
| 4 | Legislators were clearly concerned for those who had entered marriages where they were being harmed and mistreated by their partners . |
| 5 | It was over forty years before a trail led to Whitewright , Texas , where they were being offered for sale by the descendants of Joe Tom Meador , the lieutenant in question , who had died in 1980 . |
| 6 | It was also implied that these illegal forces had been deployed in western Kenya where they were being used to foment ethnic violence [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 7 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 8 | In the course of their demands to Reg Weaver , the t&gwu factory convenor , the workers from section 61 found out that although they were being paid bonuses on a target of 200 or more they were in fact entitled to bonuses on 168 ( an agreement which dated back to 1972 and would have meant £4 a week extra ) . |
| 9 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 10 | Anglia controls East Anglia lines of Network SouthEast serving the London commuter area more locally than they were being controlled by the Eastern at York . |
| 11 | They 're probably out but it 's in the erm houses that they 're are erm , looking through windows . |
| 12 | If you know that employers are using immigrants as cheap labour , and that they 're being used to undercut your rates of pay , you 're going to be against that . |
| 13 | Sonia : Seriously right , if you go to another white teacher or somebody , and tell them that they 're being prejudiced against you , they 'll make out it 's not , that it 's another reason . |
| 14 | Most people think that they 're being stupid if they have to ask a question they think that everyone else is n't probably thinking the same thing . |
| 15 | One they 'll never be know precisely the date that they 're being proofed |
| 16 | Well I think it 's much better once things are served I think it 's better the jury know that they 're being shown everything of relevance . |
| 17 | Yes , well that only , only from the point of view that they 're being used so often , that they 're also almost becoming well can you think of any words that , that are that are that have been introduced recently into our vocabulary that have that have that have been acceptable in common language ? |
| 18 | The game 's designers and distributors — RAVCO — deny the charge that they 're being irresponsible . |
| 19 | But of your kitchen workers are working under conditions of such such great heat that that that they 're being burnt by it and and this can be avoided then employers have got a legal obligation to sa to make safe conditions . |
| 20 | good recollections of erm and even events that are n't necessarily really funny but can be funny you know , on the way tha , in the way that they 're being told . |
| 21 | It 's not that they 're being racist |
| 22 | erm until some of the people who are putting a lot of pressures on schools to do different things are prepared to resolve some of these contradictions , I think the teachers feel that they 're being continually criticised by different groups for not doing different things , many of which are mutually contradictory , erm and not surprisingly they feel a little defensive in this situation . |
| 23 | The idea that they are is not supported by our immediate experience . |
| 24 | Oh you see that they are are n't they ? |
| 25 | Although groin guards are mandatory for all male competitors , referees have no way of checking that they are being worn . |
| 26 | There is little reason to doubt that they are being incarcerated because of their trade union membership . |
| 27 | They know nothing about the means of organising , nor are they particularly militant , but they see quickly and quite clearly that they are being exploited . |
| 28 | Yet in all these random examples , which are each dimensions of the new Europe , it would n't occur to the participants for one second that they are being European . |
| 29 | Though heads are delighted to have more autonomy — they will now be able to hire a plumber without going through the town hall — many feel that they are being buried under a mountain of paperwork . |
| 30 | What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible . |