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Example sentences of "[be] being [vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Is not the real problem facing many TECs the fact that their funds are being cut at a time of recession and rapidly rising unemployment ?
2	Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy .
3	The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged .
4	The shares carry the right to five weeks a year of free accommodation at the resort , which is being developed as a time share enterprise .
5	CRUCIBLE , Channel 4 's answer to Horizon , is being scotched at a time when the new TV channel is capturing only 4 per cent of the viewing market in the UK .
6	His notion of a European intellectual and cultural order , for example , was being asserted at a time when political events began to destroy the illusion of a common European identity .
7	This part closely resembled Brodrick 's best-known building , Leeds Town Hall , which was the result of a competition that he had won in 1853 and was being built at the time of the Government Offices competition .
8	It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities .
9	Ironically the trend towards growing imports of oil was being reversed at the time .
10	It is , rather , that the very idea of a body of knowledge about the world , of the sort we have now , the very idea of a natural science , was being forged at the time .
11	The Leicestershire farms had a considerable amount of land rented on short-term leases : this land was being used at the time of the survey but might not be available in future years .