Example sentences of "was being [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening newspapers , however , noted that a suspect was being questioned about the current crime , so there was no further speculation about possible links between the various attacks . |
| 2 | A Greater Manchester police spokesman said the man was being questioned at an unnamed police station about firearms offences . |
| 3 | Up to 10 times more taxpayers ' money was being invested in a single CTC than in all the county schools in the surrounding area , he said . |
| 4 | Police said yesterday a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 5 | Police confirmed yesterday a man has been arrested in connection with the killing and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 6 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 7 | At the government 's request , a report was being prepared by the International Trade Commission which , had the bill been passed , may have led to it being declared illegal for blocking international trade under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| 8 | Knox had gone into the country to translate the Vulgate into English and Lewis was being prepared by an unseen providence for war work no less surprising . |
| 9 | The first wave of British bands was being supplanted by the new Californian sound . |
| 10 | A new approach was being mooted in the heaving undergrowth of ultra-left literature . |
| 11 | The clerk of the court refused to supply him with the names of the lay justices who had decided it , pursuant to a policy which was being adopted by an increasing number of magistrates courts of declining to identify justices to the public or the press . |
| 12 | ‘ Look at that film-star for instance , ’ she added , pointing at the silent TV screen where a bosomy female was being embraced by a craggy actor in the moonlight . |
| 13 | Despite the assurances of the Director of his Department that he was favourably looked upon , and despite the fact that there was no doubt that at his office he was being treated with a subtle air of respect , nothing formal or official about his promotion had been announced ; and as he knew very well , a change of Directorship , a shift in Government economic policy , even a chill wind in international relations , could mean the end of his hopes . |
| 14 | Last year Amnesty heard that Orton Chirwa , who has died in prison in Malawi , aged 73 , was being kept in a squatting position in handcuffs and leg-irons , which were chained to an iron-bar behind his knees . |
| 15 | Tuathal , it seemed , had come north from the Forth estuary , where a new church to St Serf was being raised beside the traditional shrine of St Kentigern . |
| 16 | Everything in Jean-Claude 's life had been decided before he met me , and I was being fitted into a preordained pattern . |
| 17 | Quinn announced himself through the entryphone , aware he was being scanned by the overhead video-camera . |
| 18 | However it was not long before the majority rule was being challenged by a special circumstances doctrine , and by an even wider rule that directors owed fiduciary duties to shareholder per se . |
| 19 | The images of youth arose from a society in which the middle class was reviving its claim to political and cultural leadership at the very time when it was being challenged by the new class politics . |
| 20 | The tapered-sided gable-lidded coffin was being challenged by the new single-break flat-lidded shell , though it appears only to have been the middle classes who focused attention on style . |
| 21 | Fineview was considered by its residents to be an old-established family neighbourhood but it was generally felt that the cohesion was being destroyed by the increasing numbers of properties converted to the rental market . |
| 22 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the fact that the youth problem was being redefined in the early 1900s , led to the advocacy of new remedies which meant that the voluntary sector found itself regarded as only one part of the solution , rather than the whole solution . |
| 24 | However , even a century ago the Breton type was being crossed with the Friesian , though the pure Breton was regarded as the ‘ Ayrshire of France in its role as a good yielder on poor grazing . |
| 25 | He stood silent and still , watching the tragedy of the Poor Girl who was being rejected by the Rich Man . |
| 26 | Beyond the immediate cultural spectacle of the May events , however , a more fundamental question was being asked concerning the political strategy of the French communist party . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that the serpentinites , glaucophane schists and associated rocks of Anglesey represent a subduction zone where oceanic crust was being consumed below the early European plate . |
| 28 | Already at this time Ragusa 's influence as a trading centre was being felt throughout the Mediterranean . |
| 29 | It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , of course , that something far more monstrous than my adolescent Arabian Nights was being imagined in the young mind of twentieth-century Europe . |