Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.

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1 Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me .
2 Erm where I have to qualify my my support is is , and and I do particularly want to stress that in no way would I accept the exceptions policy as a substitute to an appropriate increase in the employment alloca allocation for Selby District .
3 By now my chest was being X-rayed in tiny vertical slices .
4 She is said to have confronted the Queen 's private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes to tell him : ‘ If I discover my calls are being bugged , I 'm off . ’
5 I find myself rather like the old shell man having to look both ways at once , because part of my division is is town and part of it is country and they have very different views about the by-pass erm
6 I did not hear any calls warning of the presence of the 109s , and very soon after first sighting the Ju88s I became aware that my aircraft was being hit .
7 But while my mind was being 16 , my body did n't feel that way at all .
8 This has been recognised , and my practice is being amended in order to facilitate this .
9 But at the same time as my accusation was being assessed by a prestigious board of Edinburgh academics , just a departmental door away a female student and her male lecturer were engaging in clandestine consensual sex .
10 My parents are being a bit stuffy about me living in London on my own , actually , ’ Rosemary confessed .
11 As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation .
12 There has been a judicial inquiry into what happened , but many of my constituents are being subjected , once again , to serious allegations , although they have been cleared in court .
13 My Dad ( who smoked ! ) caught us on that occasion and my punishment was being forced to smoke a whole cigarette ( which I did n't want ) in front of my friends who were called into the front room especially to witness the humiliation .
14 Later I found out that my husband was being unfaithful to me .
15 my Martin 's being horrible
16 Then I saw that the hills were my legs , and that my head was being pushed between them .
17 My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’
18 Will the right hon. Gentleman arrange for the Secretary of State for Defence to make a statement about the way in which contractors are paid £10 an hour for security guards at some of our vital establishments when security guards in my constituency are being paid £1.80 an hour ?
19 But as I walked across the jarred and cratered road and sensed the usual quickenings of irony and aggression I also sensed something further — I sensed that my weight , my mass , my meat was being appraised , registered , scaled , not with lust , no , but with a carnal speculation I had never felt before .
20 Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward .
21 The Kodak laboratories of my eidesis were being dismantled ; soon all that would be left was an out-of-order passport-photo-booth , mouldering on an empty station platform .
22 My father 's being released and I 'm the last to know !
23 One very urgent and necessary reason for our absence is that next Friday my opera is being performed again and it is most essential that I should be present .
24 So it is that my magazine is being put into a state of hibernation .
25 Anyway , with Selina here , my life is being lived in white underpants .
26 One of the most beautiful experiences of my life was being able to play the Tenth Symphony for Shostakovich when we last visited Moscow .
27 My life was being timed but I was not contributing .
28 But there 's still this stigma because we 're not married and I do n't wha , I do n't really know how to explain it but I feel that at times my daughter is being victimized to a certain degree because we 're not married .
29 He knows that part of my beauty is being alive , but it 's the dead me he wants .
30 Which perhaps not revolutionary but to me it was er it was but of all these things that er we 've done lots of things you know , but the thing that I , that stands out in my memory is is that er it 'd be about nineteen forty eight , there was a a one of the old members who I worked with was , lived alone and he was very ill .
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