Example sentences of "with [pron] be be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while to a certain extent the chairman was right that the aesthetic of art was being eroded , nonetheless a whole infrastructure of artists and those who dealt with them was being maintained and subsidized , thus providing creative freedom . |
| 2 | A fourth example of a causal belief has to do with someone 's being taught to drive by a prudential instructor , whose car has two brake pedals , each moving the same single connecting rod . |
| 3 | If you have a high need to maintain the relationship and a low need to get what you want , you may decide the most appropriate strategy is smoothing , i.e. you agree with what is being said so as not to cause trouble . |
| 4 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |
| 5 | AB WE TEL MIN The sensation that one neither agrees nor disagrees with what is being said to one , but that one simply wishes to depart from the presence of the speaker |
| 6 | ‘ Our members have a great deal of sympathy with what is being done and they would not encourage tests to be taken by supply teachers or other teachers , especially at primary school level . ’ |
| 7 | He is forced to accept , however , that by this stage , most of the readers of the published articles read them " out of a sense of duty " and " a wish to keep up with what is being done , " rather than " because they have any real interest in the subject " . |
| 8 | It happens to be in line with what is being done . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the constitutional issues , they do not want to take risks with what is being achieved in the ERM . |
| 10 | One further point is worth remembering ; the root definition is concerned with what is being achieved , not how it is done , and any inclusion of a ‘ how ’ statement should be shown as a constraint , eg improving productivity by the use of incentive bonus schemes . |
| 11 | But ammeters have their own internal resistance , which interferes with what is being measured . |
| 12 | The second number of the 1993 volume , which has now gone to print , contains an extra selection of book reviews , and as well as the usual listing it has several other items that will be of interest to anyone who wants to keep up to date with what is being published . |
| 13 | But there is a sense in which he complied with what was being asked of him . |