Example sentences of "was [being] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that the swimming pool was being filled up in the |
| 2 | The cost of the compensation was being met out of the money saved by cutting price subsidies . |
| 3 | Nicklaus made regular visits to oversee operations as the course was being carved out of the lush countryside . |
| 4 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 5 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 6 | The action , he said , was being stepped up as a result of Thursday 's suspensions of ambulance staff in London , threatened disciplinary action against ambulance staff in the Midlands , and Bury health authority 's use of private ambulances . |
| 7 | The week before , the name of Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens , was being bandied around as the latest answer to all of Wales ' woes . |
| 8 | It 's only 18 months to two years since he was being bandied about as a possible England boss . |
| 9 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 10 | Then she was being dragged up from the music stool and she was being shaken by the shoulders as he demanded , ‘ What 's this ? |
| 11 | CHARLES WOKE as if his body was being dragged out of a deep pit , and memory returned slowly to his pounding head . |
| 12 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 13 | So in a sense community charge was being watered down as a factor by the state taking over payment in a sense . |
| 14 | Nevertheless the British embassy did not believe that Britain was being written off as a " negligible " force , nor had the common Anglo-Saxon heritage been totally forgotten . |
| 15 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 16 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 17 | Replacement equipment was being flown out to the rig from the helicopter 's base at Aberdeen . |
| 18 | Following the data which was being projected on to the tiny screen , it was clear that the telemetry and guidance modules had performed according to specification . |
| 19 | " It was as if some Technicolour epic of Cecil B. De Milles was being projected on to the screen of the vast plain . " |
| 20 | Ira Dilworth was being worn down by the picayune squabbling of party politicians who were attempting , and with some success , to make a French/Canadian political football of the CBC . |
| 21 | The 1992 world champion had been in a subdued mood all weekend and it was clear he was being worn down by the continuing rumours over his future . |
| 22 | But even he was being worn down by the uneventful march of days . |
| 23 | He set off , more slowly this time , but all the same she was being tossed about on the seat . |
| 24 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 25 | Although I had wanted to go away and agreed to go away , when the time came I also felt that I was being pushed out of the nest , and that my parents were glad to be rid of me , in that there would be one fewer person to cater for . |
| 26 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 27 | A member of staff from Finance contacted the team concerned that her name was being given out on the radio . |
| 28 | Food was being sent in along the republic 's only rail link with Georgia . |
| 29 | Murtach had already told Bicker of the fight at Ivrigar , and a strong patrol was being sent out in the morning under Ord . |
| 30 | The game that was being played out in the shadows around the planet Earth was old beyond even its understanding . |