Example sentences of "[am/are] being [verb] [prep] the " 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 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
| 6 | Erm , you 're being recorded by the way . |
| 7 | No you 're being recorded by the way . |
| 8 | You 're being transferred to the Correctional Labour Colonies , but you wo n't be classified as a foreigner , you wo n't be in the foreigners ' camp . |
| 9 | We 're being swamped by the funk , and disco is hip . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Instead , they 're being put in the hands of chemists trying to extract a cancer drug called Taxol . |
| 13 | They 're being backed by the landowner , but villagers say the area has been ruined , and they want the travellers thrown off . |
| 14 | They 're being counselled by the school chaplin . |
| 15 | They 're being managed by the staff who work there . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I think they 're being watched in the hope that they 'll give something away . |
| 18 | If you 're being excluded from the conversation , concentrate on listening supportively and in an interested manner . |
| 19 | cos they 're being paid by the hour . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And I 'm sending all this lot off that did n't get sent off , and contacting I 'm being contacted about the place . |
| 22 | Star and Garter I 'm being told from the right here , those sort of very special places we do n't provide them , we buy in from , from outside . |
| 23 | One moment , I 'm being thrown off the premises . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Guide to Country Pubs says many are being ruined by the introduction of video games and other modern forms of entertainment . |
| 26 | Up to 50 drugs are being tested on the cancer cells from the blood of leukaemia patients in Bath . |
| 27 | More than half the British troops in Germany are being withdrawn over the next four years , which will inevitably put more pressure on UK training areas , making the removal of the MoD from national parks even less likely . |
| 28 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The rafts are being pushed from the river . ’ |