Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is what I am being paid to find out . |
| 2 | ‘ They are my punishment ; but I do not know what I am being punished for . |
| 3 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 4 | It 's this stupid leaving me to guess what I 'm being nagged about . |
| 5 | Even in order to get this far , I had to believe that what I was being told by people about their experiences and feelings was the truth , or essentially the truth . |
| 6 | ‘ Except that I had no idea what I was being punished for . ’ |
| 7 | I thought that was what I was being paid for . |
| 8 | Divorcee Mrs Robinson was arrested in April , 1989 , and while awaiting trial , she said she had only the vaguest idea of what she was being accused . |
| 9 | He offered to tutor the girl , but after trying to teach her for a while , gave it up as he considered she was unable to focus on what she was being taught . |
| 10 | She did not bother to ask herself whether Holly would have done what she was being asked to do , or whether it was sensible to care what Holly thought . |
| 11 | Suddenly she felt confused , uncertain of what she was being accused of and equally uncertain of how to defend herself . |
| 12 | Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why , and also the possible effects they may have . |
| 13 | Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why , and also the possible effects they may have . |
| 14 | A cheerful and supportive disposition is what you are being assessed for . |
| 15 | Basically , the expression means to use your wits to assess what you are being told . |
| 16 | Then , as to the doubtful ‘ shell ’ of the question , if you still have time to write on the question , you should expressly point out the doubt in your mind as to what you are being asked , and proceed to write on the doubtful part of the question for the rest of the allotted time . |
| 17 | But the next best thing is for more money towards fourteen to nineteen education so that 's very welcome at least and was widely supported in the various versions we saw this morning , my concern is with the way in which this money is to got from the centre to the school and I 'd like to speak very strongly in favour of what if I got what you 're is education so that we aim to assist schools to build on their own interests and and not have it parcelled out by some central authority which is and which a sigh of this is an area of great relevance to schools |
| 18 | ‘ I have to know what you 're being asked for . |
| 19 | That 's our job , so you have to appreciate that that 's the job of a journalist , to enquire what is the , the worst and the best aspects of any , of any job , of any , of any interview , and so you really have to do it , and in the sense that you have to if you , you probably have to go back to square one and do maximum research on what you 're being asked about , so , therefore you have more confidence in precising down what your answer is . |
| 20 | The trouble with being what you were was that although your judgement was impeccable , the rest of the world just did n't always know it . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you think , ’ his prosecution pressed him , ‘ that what you were doing , what you were being asked to do or what you had done might be wrong ? ’ |
| 22 | We ai n't going to have an organised workload , we are not computer operators , what we are is salesmen . |
| 23 | The goddess figurine from the Late Dove Goddess Sanctuary at Knossos shows a bird alighting on the goddess 's head ; perhaps what we are being shown is the ecstatic moment in a religious ceremony when the sequence of ritual acts reached its climax , and the priestess herself was transformed into the goddess . |
| 24 | ‘ What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas [ of particular value to wildlife ] in order to protect the environment . |
| 25 | What we are being asked to choose between are promissory notes , not achievements . |
| 26 | If we already know what we are being told — as " of course " implies — then the question immediately arises why we are being told again . |
| 27 | What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas in order to protect the environment . |
| 28 | What we are being left with is an insecure staff uncertain about their future . ’ |
| 29 | What we 're are saying is , There are the sites , they do n't have the development constraints that I would to the extent erm that you believe erm they have , and Skelton and the two objection sites are very well located a whole range of service facilities and employment opportunities , and development on those sites would fit squarely within local plan policy . |
| 30 | Giving what we 're being asked to do we do need to have something that focus on general skills and abilities , we 've got ta decide what they are . |