Example sentences of "[was/were] [being] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 2 | His self-image and his idealism were being threatened at the anvil of reality . |
| 3 | In a permissive society where officialdom and authority were being questioned at every turn , misbehaviour and impetuousness became a badge of courage and style . |
| 4 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 5 | Spanish onions bought at a wholesale market in Birmingham were being unloaded at a depot near Evesham in Worcestershire when a worker noticed a cardboard parcel stuffed between the bags . |
| 6 | According to figures released on Aug. 16 , 1990 , by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) , tropical rainforests were being destroyed at a rate of 168,000 sq km annually as compared with a rate of 94,000 sq km in 1980 . |
| 7 | Yet studiously , subtly , with no obvious exertion on Edward 's part , Laura and I were being kept at a distance . |
| 8 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 9 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 10 | At a trade exhibition in Miami in February 1991 , ‘ legcuffs ’ were being promoted at a stall registered in the name of ‘ Hiatt and Company Ltd of Birmingham ’ . |
| 11 | Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy . |
| 12 | The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged . |
| 13 | During the year , pesticides whose use is banned in the US were being exported at the rate of 15 tons a day . |
| 14 | Restrictive practices , which Clasper had fought so hard to introduce , were being discarded at a rate of knots in the quest to increase efficiency , output and earnings . |
| 15 | Charlie shot him a glance , but the words were being directed at the occupant of the next bed . |
| 16 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 17 | The videos were part of a number of fake goods which were being sold at a market in Tewkesbury . |
| 18 | Alcuin 's opinion in 796 , as expressed in a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard following the death of Offa , was that the unity of the Church in England had been destroyed not by reasonable consideration but by lust for power ; and in 803 , when Canterbury 's rights were being restored at a council at Clofesho , Aethelheard pronounced that ‘ tyrannical power ’ had presumed to diminish Canterbury 's honour , the pope having been deceived into granting a pallium to the bishop of Lichfield by deception and lies . |
| 19 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 20 | We formed a group among ourselves and used to meet and play through the works that were being performed at the opera that next day — two pianos , four pianists , some singers , a small chorus . |
| 21 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 22 | When the tower was being constructed at the end of the 12th century , it started keeling over . |
| 23 | Even so , there was broad agreement that this evidence of innovation and vibrancy was being achieved at the cost of institutional inertia , a reluctance to champion enterprise , and an avoidance of any deep-seated restoration of the national economy . |
| 24 | Critics could argue that higher productivity was being achieved at the cost of pushing patients out of hospital " quicker and sicker " , and increasing the number of patients treated was still consistent with unmet need . |
| 25 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 26 | A spokesman said a substantial amount of Derv was spilled while a rail tanker was being filled at the North Tees road and rail terminal . |
| 27 | Diane Wright , of The Greenway , Dovecote , Liverpool , was being treated at the hospital for anorexia . |
| 28 | His notion of a European intellectual and cultural order , for example , was being asserted at a time when political events began to destroy the illusion of a common European identity . |
| 29 | It is alleged that by 1989 30% of the world 's tropical sawlogs in trade were from the Malaysian state of Sarawak , where forest was being lost at a rate of 3 ha per minute and the resistance of the local Punan to this had been contained . |
| 30 | It reported that the process of falling in love was being studied at the University of Leicester in an attempt to explain how men and women select their partners . |