Example sentences of "[was/were] [being] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the beginning of 1986 , when alternative facilities were being planned for the combined residual population of both St Wulstan 's and Powick , it had been recognized that |
| 4 | The guardian ad litem prepared a report in which she recommended that the children live with their father and , in the body of the report , stated that for the local authority to carry out an assessment of the father at the same time as the children were being prepared for a long-term placement did not ‘ enable an open and honest working relationship . ’ |
| 5 | You should therefore make as much effort as you would if you were being interviewed for a particular job . |
| 6 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 7 | Others speculated that the foundations were being laid for a pan-European unity which might stretch from the Urals to the Atlantic . |
| 8 | Police said yesterday a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 9 | Police confirmed yesterday a man has been arrested in connection with the killing and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 10 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 11 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 12 | Mr Preece said the Four Seasons , in Saltburn , was a top quality home which has boosted interest in the sale but he would not discuss how much was being offered for the different homes . |
| 13 | And I was able to do this , so that half the fee was being paid for a three-piece suite going , some boxes , to another address , and then this bedroom suite was taking the other half of the charge back . |
| 14 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 15 | The lingering doubts were probably always there , even if a war received the approval of the Church that it was being fought for a good cause . |
| 16 | Just for a second she wondered if she was being taken for a complete fool . |
| 17 | There are instances in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the courts have , despite such subjective wording , overturned decisions by finding that the power was being used for an improper purpose , or that the public body had applied the wrong test when construing legislative criteria . |