Example sentences of "[was/were] being [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another at the 15th , a hole where so many second shots were being tossed by the angry wind over the clifftop . |
| 2 | It was stressed to parents that the questions were being asked with the full co-operation of the headteacher and staff and with the express aim of making the experience in this particular nursery the best it could be for the children . |
| 3 | Similar questions were being asked in the social sphere , notably with regard to health and to the role of women in society . |
| 4 | The Wollo Muslims , who were being persecuted by the Shoan army , had attacked Dessie and , though defeated , were still raiding at large . |
| 5 | Even at eight this morning the finishing touches were being applied to the temporary portacabin Holy Trinity school in Chipping Norton . |
| 6 | That how that their policies were being applied to the whole society . |
| 7 | Ned appeared to be whispering sweet nothings in her ear but his attentions were being met with a stony silence ! |
| 8 | The two men , who were being questioned at the high-security Paddington Green police station in central London under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , will appear at Arbour Square Magistrates ' Court this morning . |
| 9 | Be that as it may , the work on the buildings , which it has been claimed were being constructed for a newly-constituted civitas capital , was at some time in the later second century violently interrupted and , with one exception , not resumed until the Severan period . |
| 10 | Given the turbulent nature of the city 's politics , even in good times , its well-being and contentment needed to be given careful attention and the city 's problems were being exacerbated by the continual and rapid growth of its population . |
| 11 | This was the time when Lucien Freud and the ‘ School of London ’ were being proclaimed as the lost leaders of British art — even of western painting — and were being bought by the Americans . |
| 12 | Koreans were being sent to the Soviet Union for aircrew training and were sent back to North Korea when their efficiency had reached a satisfactory level . |
| 13 | The enthusiasm of the common people for the old sports was weakened to such an extent that there was a genuine receptiveness on the part of the mass of the population to the revised forms of play that were being nurtured amongst the privileged in the mid-Victorian public schools . |
| 14 | Willie lay in bed that night , tired and aching , but the aches were very pleasant ones and as he slept he dreamt that Adam and Eve were being chased by a large whale and that he stood in the garden of Eden wondering if God was nubbly and ate infinite sauce and sagacity . |
| 15 | At the last minute , however , when the terms were being finalised at the papal court , the French withdrew : the making of such concessions , which involved so much principle as well as territory , could not be countenanced . |
| 16 | In January 1941 , the local newspaper carried a description of the fires of London reflected in the southern sky , and in the same issue of the Bedfordshire Times it was reported that a member of the Area Guardians Committee had stated that a number of men employed as labourers on government works were being lodged at the Public Assistance Institution as casuals . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's as if they were being rammed by an invisible man , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The camp had acquired a new ‘ amenity ’ since Seb 's last visit : ale and spirits were being dispensed from a wooden-sided enclosed wagon by a leather-aproned vendor . |
| 19 | In the later decades of the nineteenth century these influences were being institutionalised in the new appointment of the military attaché ; but this was merely one aspect of their significance . |
| 20 | Moreover , hitherto unexploited elements of warfare — defensive barbed wire and massed machine-guns — were being deployed along the whole front of some 563km/350mls , manned for the first time in history by millions of men . |
| 21 | The actual driving force behind American thinking on a renewal of atomic collaborations was anxiety about uranium ore supplies , which were being consumed at an increasing rate as American programmes accelerated . |
| 22 | Gate takings from designated provincial matches were being given to the Patriotic Fund , the first lists of killed and wounded were being published , and , as the season drew to a close , newspaper pages were filled with the photographs of the casualties from Gallipoli , New Zealand 's bloody initiation into modern warfare . |
| 23 | In Czechoslovakia Romanesque structures were being erected from the early tenth century , in the form of castles and churches . |
| 24 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 25 | Trainees were being sought by a confusing mixture of providers competing with each other but unable to get them jobs in the end . |
| 26 | Police officers opened boxes and bags in the attics where furnishings were being stored for a new extension , and they went through the rest of the house just as painstakingly . |
| 27 | There is , however , some American authority which suggests that if this case were being heard in the American courts the answer would be likely to be in favour of granting a declaration in these circumstances : see In re A.C. ( 1990 ) 573 A.2d 1235 , 1240 , 1246–1248 , 1252 . |
| 28 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 29 | Accelerating inflation partially offset this trend in the early seventies as companies were being taxed on the inflated values of their stocks of materials and semi-finished goods , but the Labour Government of 1974–9 retrospectively removed taxation from increased stock values . |
| 30 | Not since England 's Derek Randall has a cricketer been so feted for his work in the field , and inevitably comparisons were being made with the legendary Colin Bland , his fellow countryman with the Exocet-like throwing arm . |