Example sentences of "[was/were] being [vb pp] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time , far away in Rome , Christians were being persecuted by the Emperor Nero . |
| 2 | She told him that she and some others were being escorted by the household guard on an expedition to the country that day . |
| 3 | Some 150 northern businessmen were being questioned by the police , having come forward to volunteer information about bribes they had paid . |
| 4 | Philip 's misgivings , his hurt over Jim , were being assuaged by the Congress , and the happy atmosphere that was leading up to it . |
| 5 | All this time the bodies found , one after the other , in Mouncy Street , were being examined by the pathologists . |
| 6 | Only now the coherence and the poetry were being deluged by the reality , or hope , of psychedelic drugs . |
| 7 | He asserted that rising crime , lawlessness in the economic sphere , and a general " legal nihilism in society " were being compounded by the authorities ' failure to act decisively . |
| 8 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 9 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 10 | Within days of the outbreak of war , prominent Arab-Americans were being visited by the FBI and asked about their knowledge of international terrorism . |
| 11 | The ban was imposed on the grounds that dolphins were being killed by the tuna fleet . |
| 12 | On Nov. 15 Wijeratne announced that Mannar had been " cleared of terrorists " and that 500 Moslem homeguards were being trained by the security forces to protect Moslem villages . |
| 13 | The resignation in March of two senior economic ministers [ see p. 37316 ] following a visit by the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , lent credence to reports that almost US$500,000,000 in credits were being withheld by the Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) because of dissatisfaction with the government 's short-term economic policies . |
| 14 | The fisherman on the bank could be the first person to notice that fish were dying or other water creatures were being affected by the pollutant that had suddenly appeared . |
| 15 | Jade axes were being made by the Maoris in New Zealand , almost within living memory . |
| 16 | Within a few months , similar statements were being made by the king , Stanley Baldwin , Ramsay MacDonald , Ernest Bevin , and a whole host of trade unionists . |
| 17 | However , the whole lot of them were being manipulated by the men who ran the music business … |
| 18 | Mark realised they were being followed by the police . |
| 19 | They believed their children were being abused by the system set up to protect them . |
| 20 | The most interesting of these cases is Short v. Treasury Commissioners where the whole of the shares of Short Bros. were being acquired by the Treasury under a Defence Regulation which provided for payment of their value ‘ as between a willing buyer and a willing seller . ’ |
| 21 | The Chinese authorities claimed these demonstrations were being organised by the Dalai Lama 's government in exile , based in Northern India . |
| 22 | She was informed that they were being boarded by the police , but she was never heard from again . |
| 23 | In the early part of the 19th century accurate maps of the British Isles were being produced by the Ordnance Survey . |
| 24 | Part-time BEd courses were being proposed by The Hatfield Polytechnic jointly with two colleges of education , Manchester Polytechnic , Gipsy Hill College of Education , and others . |
| 25 | On April 7 , 1990 , it was reported that a quarterly survey of corporate partnerships , undertaken by UK accountants Peat Marwick McLintock showed that COCOM rules were being circumvented by the rise in the number of small joint ventures . |
| 26 | It was the people that were being drawn by the nose and paying for the whole thing . |
| 27 | Fears about the Securitate police surfaced with persistent rumours that their members were still in powerful positions and were being protected by the government . |
| 28 | By 1794 his letters were being opened by the government , who were said to regard him as ‘ the most dangerous person in the county of Somerset ’ . |
| 29 | The U V F which is now a much larger terrorist organization has responded by killing catholics and there 's tremendous fear now in both communities , there used to be just fear in the protestant communities , they were being attacked by the I R A , but now as the Cardinal has said there 's very big fear in the catholic community as well . |
| 30 | Fiver and Pipkin , limping behind the others , and conspicuously under-sized and tired , were being attacked by the crow . |