Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He thought he could hear voices now ; silvery , gentle voices , dark voices , that made you think you might be being watched . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And I hasten to say it , governments of all persuasions assume it must be being done . |
| 6 | 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 . |