Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is not , the bid should be be blocked . |
| 2 | Many people in Russell 's Water think they know what happened to Jim Eggleton , and think the killer could be being protected locally . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , something seems to be happening ; a new political machine may be being cranked up . |
| 4 | Just how difficult the reconciliation can be is seen by the conflicts created by the draft ( and redrafted ) 1984 circulars on Green Belts and Land for Housing . |
| 5 | One of the things we said the worst training session can be is going over stuff that I already have done , already known , what training have I received that they received in the past ? |
| 6 | Many older patients who probably neither had asthma nor died of asthma may be being entered into the statistics for asthma mortality because of inappropriate use of the word asthma on death certificates , diagnostic transfer , or coding changes . |
| 7 | She and the pole must be being drawn towards the sea . |
| 8 | The numbers of baby eels in Scandinavian and European rivers are also declining , and the NRA believe that the depopulation may be being caused by an unknown factor , possibly pollution , in the Atlantic . |
| 9 | But what its content should be was left at first to the experts . |
| 10 | If objections based on uncertainty have any validity , then that word must be being used in a third sense . |
| 11 | Now to me , and John Prescott 's not even in our union , shame , that man should be is doing what every other G M B member of Parliament should be doing . |
| 12 | Any idea what gas might be being produced ? |
| 13 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 14 | But , like a brain , a neural network can be be taught to do things — recognising patterns , for example — by changing the strengths of the connections between its elements . |