Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I need a solicitor — well Legal Aid — I mean I 'm being done for — you know — interfering with my daughter — incest they call it do n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | Woo I 'm being careful . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect everyone 's being asked if they 're going to do any overthrowing , ’ said Gurder wisely . |
| 4 | I expect I 'm being silly though , Hazel . |
| 5 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 6 | Because there 's another storey down the bottom floor , because if you noticed there 's a huge great patio there , unfortunately , so er , so it 's eight thirty seven , say you 're being picked up nine thirty |
| 7 | As I say we 're being slightly dismissive |
| 8 | ’ When they realise they 're being watched , they 'll move around the store from department to department , trying on different clothes , testing make-up and so on . |
| 9 | Cheese-makers say they are being squeezed by the effects of two systems in the rigidly-controlled milk market . |
| 10 | All three potential Kunsthalle directors say they are being welcomed by the lower Manhattan art community . |
| 11 | Now processors say they are being offered plastic waste with a dowry of £50–100 a tonne attached . |
| 12 | They say they are being presented with a £200 bill for training . |
| 13 | Is he gon na I expect he is is n't he ? |
| 14 | Many on Wall Street acknowledge this weakness , but say it is being redressed . |
| 15 | Now that the transition into a string of planets is well-established , we suspect Scott McNealy is wearying of playing the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of chief executive of parent company Sun Microsystems Inc and president of the company 's systems planet Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , having to go to both sets of meetings and deal with other planets as an equal who is also their boss , and he could well be on the look-out for a president for the hardware unit ; some say he 's being urged to split the company up even further by some of his lieutenants . |
| 16 | being offered a wide range of attractive foods that replace what is being offered |
| 17 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 18 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Let me come quite clean on that and tell you that you , at the very moment I hope you are being recorded . |
| 20 | The childhood messages that we get from our parents and teachers are things like , ‘ Good little girls do n't get angry ’ and ‘ I hope you 're being a good girl today ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I hope you 're being sarcastic — as usual . ’ |
| 22 | dial one is is actually easier to read is n't it ? |
| 23 | I fear you are being taken from you — |
| 24 | Well you look , oh the other one too , I mean she 's being stupid with her ! |
| 25 | They feel that Shetlanders do not appreciate the sacrifices they are making : instead they suspect they are being regarded by Shetlanders as a nuisance not really to be welcomed and as far as possible to be ignored altogether . |
| 26 | I suspect they were being cared for under the Central Methodist hall . |
| 27 | Diana took the criticism to heart , avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent . |
| 28 | Consider what is being claimed . |
| 29 | However , it is not always clear what is being measured in a given situation . |
| 30 | how would you think the weather , I mean we 're being a bit flippant but how will the weather affect the Pisan team ? |