Example sentences of "was [being] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 2 | When the tower was being constructed at the end of the 12th century , it started keeling over . |
| 3 | Even so , there was broad agreement that this evidence of innovation and vibrancy was being achieved at the cost of institutional inertia , a reluctance to champion enterprise , and an avoidance of any deep-seated restoration of the national economy . |
| 4 | Critics could argue that higher productivity was being achieved at the cost of pushing patients out of hospital " quicker and sicker " , and increasing the number of patients treated was still consistent with unmet need . |
| 5 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 6 | A spokesman said a substantial amount of Derv was spilled while a rail tanker was being filled at the North Tees road and rail terminal . |
| 7 | Diane Wright , of The Greenway , Dovecote , Liverpool , was being treated at the hospital for anorexia . |
| 8 | His notion of a European intellectual and cultural order , for example , was being asserted at a time when political events began to destroy the illusion of a common European identity . |
| 9 | It is alleged that by 1989 30% of the world 's tropical sawlogs in trade were from the Malaysian state of Sarawak , where forest was being lost at a rate of 3 ha per minute and the resistance of the local Punan to this had been contained . |
| 10 | It reported that the process of falling in love was being studied at the University of Leicester in an attempt to explain how men and women select their partners . |
| 11 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 12 | This part closely resembled Brodrick 's best-known building , Leeds Town Hall , which was the result of a competition that he had won in 1853 and was being built at the time of the Government Offices competition . |
| 13 | It believed viewers would see that the fun was being poked at the kiosk 's location — not blind folk . |
| 14 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 15 | Ironically the trend towards growing imports of oil was being reversed at the time . |
| 16 | In the World Cup matches against France and Scotland , Richard Hill was being hounded at the base of the scrum . |
| 17 | Rostov knew that he would not be able to understand even if he could hear , but due to the fact that Arghatun 's replies were clearly either affirmative or negative he thought that probably the officer 's account was being clarified at every stage . |
| 18 | The shadow Environment Secretary , Mr Bryan Gould , maintained water was being sold at a loss . |
| 19 | The shadow Environment Secretary , Mr Bryan Gould , maintained water was being sold at a loss . |
| 20 | Mexican debt was being sold at the end of the year for 46.6 cents on the dollar , some 30 per cent more than in January , while Argentinian debt had improved by around 70 per cent to an admittedly still poor 20 cents on the dollar . |
| 21 | It is , rather , that the very idea of a body of knowledge about the world , of the sort we have now , the very idea of a natural science , was being forged at the time . |
| 22 | Did you say anything to the effect that Lawrence was being harboured at the flat at or did he merely say he was concerned for the safety of the occupier ? |
| 23 | Moreover , it had become clear from the opinion polls that the unpopularity of the new tax was being laid at the door of the government which had introduced it , rather than the local authorities who were responsible for levying and collecting it . |
| 24 | Although Soul presents the anthropists as shiny new iconoclasts , the same line was being peddled at the turn of the century by Alfred Russel Wallace , Darwin 's collaborator , and was duly satirised by Mark Twain . |
| 25 | The teenager , who absconded while on remand , was traced to an address in Highbury , north London , and was being held at a west London police station , said Scotland Yard . |
| 26 | According to reports , Bozize was being held at the Roux camp , the Army headquarters in Bangui — also the place of detention of the deposed emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa . |
| 27 | The Leicestershire farms had a considerable amount of land rented on short-term leases : this land was being used at the time of the survey but might not be available in future years . |