Example sentences of "to [Wh det] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former means that anything in the domain of belief is potentially relevant to what is being considered ; the latter means that the falsification or verification of propositions is done relative to their status in a scientific theory ( and , by extension , in a belief system ) . |
| 2 | The alert and attentive reader , however , usually brings critical attention to what is being read and reacts in some way . |
| 3 | In other words , the counsellor must seek the real feelings of the counsellee through careful listening to what is being said , how it is being said , and how this appears to relate to the real situation . |
| 4 | Even if the faults are apparent , a deaf person would be very wary of criticising for fear that the interpreter would no longer co-operate and that even the slim link to what is being discussed in hearing company will be taken away . |
| 5 | We are often so anxious to talk , to express our views or to make our point , that we often fail to listen to what is being said to us . |
| 6 | This will mean that you will be in possession of more information and facts than people who pay scant attention to what is being said . |
| 7 | Secondly , if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you . |
| 8 | You need to make the effort to put your energy into the task in hand and to listen to what is being said . |
| 9 | If this is the case , then it suggests that an important aspect of skilled reading is to avoid attending too closely to what is being fixated at any one moment , and to allow our eyes to be attracted to nearby interesting meanings . |
| 10 | The idea is that , say , a Domestos Hygiene Advisory Service , a Clarks Health Education Service , or a Butter Information Bureau , all channel information efforts about a product through a focal point , thus gaining better attention from the media , lending an increased air of respectability to what is being done for commercial reasons , and acting as a voice on behalf of the area of expertise in which the manufacturer operates . |
| 11 | Modality or modal meanings have to do with the attitude of the speaker to the hearer or to what is being said , with such things as certainty , possibility , and obligation . |
| 12 | The direction and length of our gaze also conveys information about our attitudes to each other and to what is being said . |
| 13 | As these passages demonstrate , the passive consumption of information and oral commentary is contrasted with characteristically written forms of language use which encourage intersubjective communication by forcing people to imagine , in the case of the journal , what others are doing or , in the case of the letter , how they will react to what is being written to them . |
| 14 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 15 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman gives credit to what is being done by civil service departments and executive agencies . |
| 16 | Thus , the basic needs approach switches attention from ‘ how much is being produced … to what is being produced , in what ways , for whom and with what impact ’ ( Hicks and Streeton , 1979 , p.577 ) . |
| 17 | There are many examples similar to ( b ) ; perhaps the best rule to give is that the tonic syllable will tend to occur on the last lexical word in the tone-unit , but may be placed earlier in the tone-unit if there is a word there with greater importance to what is being said . |
| 18 | Maintain an open questioning attitude to what 's being said . |
| 19 | Well , I ca n't let you listen to what 's being said in the entire house without having access to the entire house . |
| 20 | We had a motion which was put before Conference last year and it was carried and it was asking for a similar review to what 's being asked for this morning . |
| 21 | Erm that being the case , if if those objections were were sustained , er you know , going back to what was was said last week , then I think Selby might be in difficulties in in meeting its housing requirement . |
| 22 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 23 | But there is no such careful blending of ingredients in Tetley 's Dances of Albion where the singer 's words of the traditional ‘ Lye Wake Dirge ’ bore no relation to what was being danced on stage . |
| 24 | Even in those large congregations all the bidding prayers are spontaneous , beautifully prayed and with everyone obviously listening to what was being said . |
| 25 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 26 | When his father began talking again , a little irritated frown wrinkled his smooth young brow , but although he made a great play of concentrating fiercely on his reading , he still listened carefully from behind the book to what was being said . |
| 27 | And this time , without the distraction of her friends giggling in the background , she actually listened to what was being said , becoming absorbed in the detached examination of her character by a stranger . |
| 28 | Tallis moved quietly round the house and came up behind the hunter ; she sat on the rush matting and hugged her knees , listening to what was being said . |
| 29 | And those date from a nineteen ninety one base , as compared to what was being forecast from the nineteen eighty nine . |
| 30 | With respect er I was n't paying too much attention to er to what was being said in as much as this possibly sounds negative but our concern is not for what people are shouting at us our concern is for whether we 've got a threat er in a particular area , in this case the bedroom , and whether we can try and sort that threat out before somebody is injured . |