Example sentences of "[be] being [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This motif was used on the air every day and we rang all possible changes on the ‘ we 're being done in by the big bogey-man ’ theme , so much so that we had some of our faithful old lady listeners actually in tears . |
| 2 | They 're being sent to a village house which has become the centre of a sophisticated operation ferrying out thousands of parcels to Dubrovnik.Mike Rowbottom reports . |
| 3 | They 're being sent to Norway cos they are , they are |
| 4 | ‘ While we 're being fired upon from above ? |
| 5 | We 're being conspired against , by forces we can barely conceive of . |
| 6 | Maybe it was n't the most satisfying job in the world but the men on loo patrol will no doubt be distressed to hear they 're being replaced by a machine . |
| 7 | Alkaline explains : ‘ It 's an angry track , just releasing the tension inside about how things are going with British rap at the moment , and how we 're being treated as a rap group . |
| 8 | They 're being pumped around the body even faster so therefore that 's going to take hold of the person faster , so you keep them at rest , into recovery position if possible and get help , do n't forget to er collect any evidence of what the poison is , it must go with the casualty . |
| 9 | Which was a very good thing and what children of today miss when they 're being whisked on a bus to school . |
| 10 | They 're being trained by Sheila Mander , director of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're being trained in Scotland as Raiding Forces . |
| 12 | Now either , either we have , ei either you accept that and y y you 're saying n not only in terms of land reform is the Communist Party prepared to see poor peasants being allocated less than subsistence land but even when they are allocated land they 're being taxed on their income even though it 's well below subsistence . |
| 13 | There 'll be no cruising in the Midland Karting championships on sunday … they 're being raced at Little Rissington in Gloucestershire … |
| 14 | And I 've got a an all day meeting , I 've arranged it on the Tuesday that 's if we 're being presented to . |
| 15 | The point to Mr , the point of the reference back is simply to allow us to say that we do not accept the figures that we 're being presented with . |
| 16 | They 're the same as Billy , mostly , but they 're being manipulated from the top . |
| 17 | Consciously or subconsciously , you 're being manipulated by someone who knows where to press the buttons on your ego . |
| 18 | They 're being taught in a converted pigsty while staff try to get retrospective planning permission for the school . |
| 19 | That 's the one that 's the one danger that I see , that instead of being led by the turnover of the product , we 're being led by the funding we can obtain which I think is a is a weakness in the system . |
| 20 | They 're being revenged on Balor for it . ’ |
| 21 | Next week we 're being entertained by Heather . |
| 22 | So bit by bit you 're being written into the programme and fed into the computer . |
| 23 | ‘ I have to know what you 're being asked for . |
| 24 | That 's our job , so you have to appreciate that that 's the job of a journalist , to enquire what is the , the worst and the best aspects of any , of any job , of any , of any interview , and so you really have to do it , and in the sense that you have to if you , you probably have to go back to square one and do maximum research on what you 're being asked about , so , therefore you have more confidence in precising down what your answer is . |
| 25 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
| 26 | If you 're being run by Morton , he 'll want to hear all this . |
| 27 | Erm yeah , the the the axe to grind is is yes , I pick up the the the political stick here er , that was you know , that that , you know from the other the other end to you and yeah , yes I also think we 're being beaten with a with a with a stick here for three R's er , if we 're forced into the corner of having to use an ignorant white hall idiots er |
| 28 | They 're being detained for a long time . |
| 29 | Because they 're being supported by . |
| 30 | Just for those of you who have just arrived , we 're actually recording this session as part of a a large spoken database which is gon na be part of a national archive and so you 're being recorded for posterity . |