Example sentences of "[was/were] being [verb] at [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 He brought his ballad finished ’ , we hardly need to be reminded that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel , and other poems were being written at this time .
2 It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time .
3 In 1820 he was sent to Fort Augustus , where the locks of the Caledonian canal were under construction , and , as his father was well known to everyone there , he was given the opportunity of learning not only masonry but all the branches of civil and mechanical engineering that were being practised at that time .
4 ‘ The QE2 was being built at that time .
5 It was probably in 1937 that he and Tolkien had a conversation about their distaste for much of what was being published at that time .
6 The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece .
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