Example sentences of "[pron] [be] be [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , as if I was being assessed for a place , a level , a grading here . |
| 3 | Not being paid was n't a problem ; what was however was that I was being used for the donkey work without any consultation on the artistic side of it , And that was important to me . |
| 4 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 5 | ‘ I was being groomed for the role . |
| 6 | I knew that I was being considered for the MBE , to be announced in the next Queen 's Birthday Honours , and to say I was stunned at the thought was an understatement . |
| 7 | Fourteen years ago , when I was being interviewed for a job in the BBC Natural History Unit . |
| 8 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 9 | It would be wrong not to draw attention to the grave problem which is being created for the future by the production of large numbers of council houses at such rents that , if a fall occurs in building cost , difficulty will be experienced in letting them , despite the subsidy . |
| 10 | Life expired boiler of No. 5 which is being used for the oil firing tests on the Snowdon Mountain Railway . |
| 11 | We submitted a detailed response to the NRA 's proposed scheme of water quality improvement targets which was being prepared for the Secretary of State 's approval . |
| 12 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 13 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 14 | What harm would come if she were being fooled for a change ? |
| 15 | You should therefore make as much effort as you would if you were being interviewed for a particular job . |
| 16 | She 's being prepped for an emergency Caesarean now , under epidural . |
| 17 | you 're visiting a War or MOD Disablement Pensioner who is being treated for the disablement he or she is getting the pension for or |
| 18 | She recalled an occasion when she was being taken for a walk in the park . |
| 19 | Just for a second she wondered if she was being taken for a complete fool . |
| 20 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 21 | Clients feel that they are being overcharged for an inadequate service : they quote a high incidence of mistakes and insufficient contact with personnel handling their affairs . |
| 22 | Although some horses will travel in horse trailers as if it is second nature to them , even without having any previous related experience ; and some horses will stand perfectly and quietly for the farrier when they are being shod for the first time ; many will not ! |
| 23 | They 're being detained for a long time . |
| 24 | What was new after 1933 in respect of these films was that they were being made for a nation that was experiencing a new politicization and by a Hollywood that was equally trying to redefine its role within the culture . |
| 25 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 26 | The drinking public was now aware they were being taken for a ride by the brewing barons . |
| 27 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 28 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 29 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 30 | If it 's being run for the short-term , they reckon , that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism . |