Example sentences of "[was/were] [being] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discrimination against employing people started with those in their 40s , while over-50s were being pressed to take early retirement regardless of their individual ability or health , said the report , by Eurolink Age . |
| 2 | By the early 1950s , the period of post-war reconstruction was coming to an end , rationing had ceased , wages were beginning to rise , and people were being encouraged to spend more money . |
| 3 | By 1985 according to the Financial Management Unit ( Cabinet Office ( MPO ) / Treasury ( FMU ) , 1985a , p 4 ) ‘ most departments [ were ] developing new ( or strengthening existing ) arrangements for reviewing programmes systematically each year ’ , and all departments were being urged to adopt similar procedures . |
| 4 | Mr Wilson , the MP for Cunninghame North , said it was gangsterism and claimed that people were being blackmailed to accept lower terms and conditions . |
| 5 | At first , he was sympathetic to the ‘ popular cry that the premier team has not tried to encourage and develop local talent ’ , and assured readers of the club programme that steps were being taken to foster such talent . |
| 6 | He said the purpose of the annual review was to inform the legal profession , the users of the court and the wider public of what problems had been encountered in endeavours to achieve better , cheaper and swifter appellate justice , what steps were being taken to overcome those problems and what success was attending those efforts . |
| 7 | Trading standards officers have seized two machines which were being used to make fake designer t-shirts . |
| 8 | The Minister will be aware of the substantial minorities in each of the Baltic states , some of which , prior to the recognition of their independence , were being used to impede that development . |
| 9 | From the beginning of the century , however , it was being extended to include large areas hitherto only on the fringes of the European system of international relations . |
| 10 | In Geneva , a UN spokesman said Washington was being asked to provide heavy helicopters to take in supplies and evacuate wounded people from Srebrenica . |
| 11 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 12 | She was being paid to find this murderer , and find him she would ! |
| 13 | It was also announced that a law was being drafted to give all Albanians the right to obtain a passport for foreign travel . |
| 14 | On the other hand there is conclusive evidence that by the Shang dynasty jade was being used to denote high rank . |
| 15 | US officials had claimed earlier that the factory was being used to produce biological weapons . |
| 16 | Apart from a range of genuine chemical species mentioned , in Operation Plum Pudding ( Fig. 1 ) , Dan reveals that the newly produced Tungstal Maximite Spray was being used to protect Big Ben from weathering . |