Example sentences of "were being [vb pp] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the stand of Rolls-Royce and Bentley , however , no excuses were being made for the reawakening of one of Britain 's best known and loved marques from 40 years of savage badge engineering . |
| 2 | Here in May 1942 — before the raid on Dieppe that August — plans were being made for the landings in North Africa that would put an American Task Force ashore on the Atlantic coast near Casablanca , a second force ashore at Oran in the Mediterranean , and a third further east at Algiers . |
| 3 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 4 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |
| 5 | Two small tank locomotives were being prepared for the weekend 's work amidst a scene of almost dereliction . |
| 6 | In most homes in the area , prayers were being said for the deliverance of a husband , father , son or brother , and several families had more than one man involved . |
| 7 | Several bypasses were being considered for the road , he added . |
| 8 | Dell Computer Corp international president Andrew Harris resigned and the company promoted Joel Kocher to president of all sales , marketing and service operations worldwide ; he had been president of Dell USA ; Dell said that both men were being considered for the post and after Kocher got the job , a disappointed Harris decided to resign . |
| 9 | In many ports , joint meetings of shipowners and men were being held for the discussion of grievances . |
| 10 | Within months royal licences were being issued for the alienation of property to the church despite the statute . |
| 11 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 12 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 13 | The winds that were being reported for the hurricane did not include the ground speed that the storm was tracking . |