Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the process " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eyes of the principals , Congress and the prying media had already lost Vietnam ; now , with their spineless voting first for and then against aid to the contras , they were in the process of losing Nicaragua , too . |
| 2 | April , Hitler had committed suicide , just as the Russian troops were in the process of overrunning Berlin , and on 8th . |
| 3 | Hitler was breaking out and at the time his bombers , summoned up by Franco , were in the process of wiping out the Basques ' spiritual and cultural home of Guernica . |
| 4 | While FLOWERED UP were in the process of getting kicked out of their hotel for spraying the porters with fire extinguishers , Bez was safe in his room making a four-hour phone call to his missus and the very adorable new addition to his family , baby son ARLO . |
| 5 | West Indies , following their dominance of the world cricket stage since the mid-1970s , were in the process of rebuilding , and new captain Richie Richardson , keen to make his individual mark , was clearly investing in the blossoming talents of the likes of batsmen Carl Hooper , Brian Lara , Philo Wallace and Keith Arthurton and bowlers Ian Bishop , Curtly Ambrose and Anderson Cummins . |
| 6 | We can not ignore the fact that long-held attitudes were in the process of change . |
| 7 | Initiatives aimed at addressing the needs of pupils in terms of independent learning and study skills were already evident in all four schools , and three of the four had developed ( or were in the process of developing ) reasonably spacious and attractive library areas . |
| 8 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 9 | Three SSDs had developed strategies for independent living and three others were in the process of developing such a policy . |
| 10 | The Soviet masses were in the process of acceding to a cultural awareness that had been denied to his father . |
| 11 | The probability indeed is that the eastern Angles either had been or were in the process of being brought into a dependent relationship with Eadwine by the time of his marriage to Aethelburh or at least not long after . |
| 12 | In any case , the decision to create the polytechnics emanated from a policy devised by a small group of senior officials at the DES who , among other things , were concerned to create a top tier of institutions within the public sector to replace the CATs which were in the process of becoming universities . |
| 13 | Four years ago , the National Certificate was still in its infancy and centres were in the process of adapting to the new system . |
| 14 | In addition , some 1,700 dwellings were in the process of being sold . |
| 15 | Israel , he said , would be allowed to complete a pre-agreed number of houses which were in the process of construction in the occupied territories at the start of 1992 , in exchange for US$300 million in guarantees immediately and the remaining US$9,700 million staggered over six years . |
| 16 | On this view the non-specialist sole practitioner was a species of legal animal which market forces were in the process of rendering extinct . |
| 17 | It was when they were in the process of doing just that that Edward Greenwood walked in unannounced . |
| 18 | ‘ There was a particular case where we were in the process of doing an uplift , but our officers did not call at the address at the request of the police . |
| 19 | What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another . |
| 20 | Now , it looked as if they were newly decorating so whether the water got into there or not , but it did n't look as if they were in the process of decorating so I hope it did n't for their sake . |
| 21 | It is a fact that her son-in-law , the barrister Jacques Perrot , was in the process of divorcing her daughter . |
| 22 | Special trains were chartered to transport 2,000 employees and their families down to the gleaming new plant from Ford 's Trafford Park factory in Manchester which was in the process of closing . |
| 23 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 24 | But in the early summer of 1986 review panels at MIT and at Tufts ( which was in the process of hiring Dr Imanishi-Kari ) both concluded that the paper 's main finding was not affected by Dr O'Toole 's criticisms and that no published corrections were required . |
| 25 | Buddie had taken out his little silver tin and was in the process of rolling one of those thin straggly cigarettes that flared when lit and vanished after only a few puffs . |
| 26 | A more serious incident occurred when the churchwarden was in the process of removing a crucifix in the churchyard following a directive from parliament for the removal of images from church property . |
| 27 | So wrote Victor Hugo in 1867 in a guide book to Paris , thereby paying tribute to his enemy Napoleon III , for it was he who was in the process of transforming the city . |
| 28 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 29 | He looked himself , yet older , different , an elder brother , his father , or else this future self which he was in the process of becoming . |
| 30 | The mayor was in the process of proposing a motion of sympathy with Lady Churchill , following the death of Sir Winston , when James Gallagher of Creggan Heights rose in the public gallery to read a short statement on behalf of the DUAC calling on the councillors to sink their political differences and to unite in efforts to press the Government to establish new industries in Derry . |