Example sentences of "and [pron] be be " in BNC.

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1 But that 's probably more than a lot of people did , and everyone 's being urged to use condoms , but how many people are actually given any instruction on how to use them ?
2 Patients believe that their doctor , to the best of his or her ability , is following two rules : everything that is beneficial is being done , and nothing is being done that is not directly beneficial .
3 I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel .
4 I think Chris and I are are in agreement e about the technical issues here .
5 ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’
6 Lesley and even Emma and I are being seen as lads , unfeminine , trying to be blokes .
7 Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife
8 I 've got all day and I 'm being paid . ’
9 I 've done a terrible thing and I 'm being chased right now Vic well more or less like you know .
10 I have done wrong and I 'm being punished for it , and nobody can help me . ’
11 The alternative is that and I 'm being provocative quite deliberately , I am left with an impression that what the County Council have done is add together input from district councils to prepare its structure plan .
12 We 're on holiday and I 'm being left on my own .
13 They said my girlfriend and I were being unrealistic .
14 A nice night 's sleep seems like a nice change , but nightmares have habits of popping up , once when I was five I had a dream that my friends and I were being ripped apart and eaten by a giant , now when the time comes to go into that great big C D tea room in the sky , could you change something ?
15 Yet studiously , subtly , with no obvious exertion on Edward 's part , Laura and I were being kept at a distance .
16 I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and .
17 But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing .
18 It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed .
19 The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet .
20 I stretched out my whole body into the petals so that every square millimetre of my skin was softly touched , I wiggled my fingers and toes among the sweet perfumes … and I was being embraced .
21 After the excitement died down , and I was being congratulated by my wee brother and the others , I looked up at the Edelmans ' window .
22 Everything in Jean-Claude 's life had been decided before he met me , and I was being fitted into a preordained pattern .
23 ‘ Damn and I was being so clever fooling you I never looked behind .
24 at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down .
25 ‘ You were strange with me the last days and I was being so awful .
26 After all , I was an unknown and I was being asked to join up with players who were even then household names .
27 anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor
28 yeah and I was being sly about it , going down the lane not standing right outside his house , right .
29 Ian Hay leads his troops of visiting anglers with similar verve and spirit , and fishing at Scourie is organised with almost military precision ; using a system that is exclusive to the hotel and which is being increasingly emulated by other Scottish fishing establishments .
30 Another recent innovation is that of biotechnology , which involves the use of organisms ( especially bacteria ) in industrial and technological processes and which is being applied to a variety of environmental management problems such as waste treatment .
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