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 . |