Example sentences of "[was/were] [being] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 2 | They were being instructed by the fourth , who was treated in hospital for shock . |
| 3 | Clearly some rulers and ministers were being affected in the second half of the century by the complex and often conflicting currents which made up the great intellectual movement of the Enlightenment ( see Chap . |
| 4 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 5 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 6 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 7 | She and Mr Singh had visited the school for a Christmas event and had been pleased to hear that Balbinder was being moved into the second class . |
| 8 | It was like some ghoulish rerun of Sunday afternoon , as if the same sequence in a film was being shot for a second time under a different director . |
| 9 | About the time the original chapel was being built in the sixteenth century , a wooden crucifix was washed ashore in a box . |
| 10 | Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority . |
| 11 | The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself . |
| 12 | EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks . |
| 13 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 14 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |
| 15 | Yet in fact the Church 's power was being eroded throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | However the village received its name it is almost certain that the present name was being used by the 8th century as we find the Charter for Halling dated A.D. 765–785 when Ecgberht II of Kent granted to St. Andrews of Rochester , ten Sulings at Halling with rights . |
| 17 | 1 ) , was being used by the fourth century to modernize Thessaly , and especially its towns . |