Example sentences of "were being [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood that the three youths being questioned were being held at separate police stations in Liverpool . |
| 2 | With consumption growing at only about 1 per cent a year ( the rate of growth of the labour force ) , the system would have become one in which machines were being installed at hectic rates in order to produce other machines . |
| 3 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 4 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 5 | ( Including information about job characteristics improved the extent to which pay variance within the sexes was explained , but it did not explain very much more of the gap between the sexes since men and women in apparently similar sorts of jobs were being paid at different rates . ) |