Example sentences of "be being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're being pumped around the body even faster so therefore that 's going to take hold of the person faster , so you keep them at rest , into recovery position if possible and get help , do n't forget to er collect any evidence of what the poison is , it must go with the casualty . |
| 2 | They 're the same as Billy , mostly , but they 're being manipulated from the top . |
| 3 | That 's the one that 's the one danger that I see , that instead of being led by the turnover of the product , we 're being led by the funding we can obtain which I think is a is a weakness in the system . |
| 4 | So bit by bit you 're being written into the programme and fed into the computer . |
| 5 | Erm , you 're being recorded by the way . |
| 6 | No you 're being recorded by the way . |
| 7 | We 're being swamped by the funk , and disco is hip . |
| 8 | A very mysterious , nasty record , and one that asks whether we 're being used by the powers-that-be by going out raving on E every night instead of overthrowing the rich . |
| 9 | Instead , they 're being put in the hands of chemists trying to extract a cancer drug called Taxol . |
| 10 | They 're being backed by the landowner , but villagers say the area has been ruined , and they want the travellers thrown off . |
| 11 | They 're being counselled by the school chaplin . |
| 12 | They 're being managed by the staff who work there . |
| 13 | What I 've done these interviews knowing about your subject , I do n't have to agree my council 's policy , but I and I understand how people feel upset about X , so that 's trying to get the message across , you know people are upset , you can understand they 're upset , but you 're not actually compromising yourself or , because you 're being interviewed as the council spokesman , you 're not compromising the position of the council . |
| 14 | ‘ I think they 're being watched in the hope that they 'll give something away . |
| 15 | If you 're being excluded from the conversation , concentrate on listening supportively and in an interested manner . |
| 16 | cos they 're being paid by the hour . |
| 17 | just trying to sort out this business of this the offices that we 're being let in the Strand Theatre that er people are moving in this week and they 've got no authority to move you see . |
| 18 | And I 'm sending all this lot off that did n't get sent off , and contacting I 'm being contacted about the place . |
| 19 | One moment , I 'm being thrown off the premises . |
| 20 | If cases were selected for a particular disposal at random , Galloway suggested , how could proper consideration be being given to the welfare of the child in every case ? |
| 21 | Companion technologies such as page description languages and page printers have been developing apace but the real strides seem to be being made in the scanner market with both better grey scale capability and higher resolutions . |
| 22 | One of the things I found out about this one , is that , welder 's lung is still not recognized as an industrial disease er of all this time , and yet , if you have welder 's lung by er using stainless steel , it is , but it comes under asthma , so that 's something that we feel that should be being pushed by the G M B. |
| 23 | Many older patients who probably neither had asthma nor died of asthma may be being entered into the statistics for asthma mortality because of inappropriate use of the word asthma on death certificates , diagnostic transfer , or coding changes . |
| 24 | She and the pole must be being drawn towards the sea . |
| 25 | Finally , these catalogues are being checked from the point of view of identifying items relating to public policy changes and the availability of the full text of these items is being tested . |
| 26 | Guide to Country Pubs says many are being ruined by the introduction of video games and other modern forms of entertainment . |
| 27 | Up to 50 drugs are being tested on the cancer cells from the blood of leukaemia patients in Bath . |
| 28 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 29 | ‘ The rafts are being pushed from the river . ’ |
| 30 | Wild species are in fashion and are being snatched from the countryside . |