Example sentences of "were [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 2 | In March 1915 at a discussion between London Tramways Managers , Mr. Mason said he did not think women were suitable to conduct large open top cars , but in the New Year , the Company had to employ them , as so many men were being called up in the forces . |
| 3 | Whether by accident or design , Husbands and Wives contains uncanny echoes of the real events that were being played out in the lives of the cast as it was made . |
| 4 | Agitation may have been couched in a vocabulary which spoke of national morality , but it was clear who were being singled out as the recipients of purity action . |
| 5 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 6 | Er and I remember er er a a very vivid occasion of being on Road , which is close by the er Hucknall Colliery about three o'clock time , when er a couple of these er er people were being escorted back towards the centre of the town , after they 'd done er a day 's work and there were lots and lots of er er er people about , men and women , who were shouting and jeering , at er at er at these at these people , who had been er who had er er violated the union decision and gone to work . |
| 7 | But while these voices of dissent grew louder and louder , and began to breed that stony-faced aspect about which Lowe later remarked , the New Zealand rugby public were being swept along by the manufactured , hyped-up waves generated by the hucksters and the lackeys determined that their clients would get full return for spending their sponsorship and advertising dollars . |
| 8 | A similar , if less dramatic , process ‘ was taking place at a lower level ; new urban districts were being carved out of the rural districts ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:200 ) . |
| 9 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 10 | Dr Mowlam , whose office is in the heart of Redcar 's bedsitland , said home-buyers were being dragged down into the morass . |
| 11 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 12 | The outer room was already full of readers but people were being turned out of the inner room to make way for the meeting . |
| 13 | Macedonian vehicles were being turned back at the Greek border and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Salonika ( Greek Macedonia ) protested on Feb. 14 at the republic 's use of the name Macedonia . |
| 14 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 15 | NVA barracks and training areas were being handed over to the government for civilian use as rapidly as possible . |
| 16 | Afterwards , in the traffic jam leaving Southampton , party hats were being handed out among the Leeds cars . |
| 17 | While they were being pinned back by the Old Course , one man was able to deliver the coup-de-grâce to St Andrews with a birdie finish , gently cajoled by an American renowned for catching golf balls in a baseball glove . |
| 18 | The wounded were being laid out against the wall of the barn . |
| 19 | The fireworks were being let off on the ramparts of the castle . |
| 20 | Now that Rune had taken charge of the whole operation , bringing in ‘ back-up ’ troops , her own futile efforts were being shown up for the amateur plan they were ! |
| 21 | They were being brought up with the same affection the Sheikha gave her own daughter . |
| 22 | Wounded were being brought out from the orchard at the back of the farm which was being subjected to unusually heavy mortaring from the German positions just a short distance across the fields . |
| 23 | Speaking at an international conference in London on the transportation and disposal of hazardous waste on Oct. 4 , 1989 , the European Communities ( EC ) Environment Commissioner , Carlo Ripa Di Meana , said that proposals to make producers of toxic waste liable for the damage and injury they might cause were being drawn up by the EC Commission . |
| 24 | Instead of soldiers , tourists armed only with cameras patrolled the freshly washed cobbles of the square , while , outside the various restaurants and the tabac on the corner , tables with bright umbrellas were being set out in the sunshine . |
| 25 | Paul 's argument is that if you can get the word ‘ only ’ into your Christian thinking , then it will really help to sort out the dilemmas that were being thrown up by the different groups within the church . |
| 26 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 27 | Whilst the King 's declarations were being read out in the market place , the reader , a local man , seeing Richard Baxter passing by , stopped and shouted , ‘ There goeth a traitor ’ ! |
| 28 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 29 | The expansion of the surface was what was causing the pebbles to move away from hers they were being carried along by the movement of the sheet . |
| 30 | Pending the formation of an Inter-republican Economic Committee [ see above ] , whose proposed structure and functions were being worked out by Ivan Silayev , RSFSR Prime Minister , the functions of government in the economic sphere were being carried out by the interim Committee for the Management of the National Economy , also chaired by Silayev [ see p. 38371 ] . |