Example sentences of "was being [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in January 1758 , however , Lieutenant Home 's brother , David Home of Wedderburn , complained that the promise had not been kept and that the lieutenant had been ordered to join a fireship at Spithead which was being prepared for foreign service . |
| 2 | The third was that when Mrs Thatcher concluded that the way was being prepared for full membership of the EMS , she was able to destroy the shadowing strategy by loudly denying its existence . |
| 3 | He felt that he was being earmarked for special attention from the Dale 's big central defenders in a rough and tumble encounter that saw McDonough being given his marching orders in the 66th minute for an alleged use of the elbow . |
| 4 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |
| 5 | The Bolshevik revolution lent new urgency to Russian demands for general peace negotiations , and , in December , the new regime 's publication of secret treaties between the Allies laying down agreed post-war spheres of influence in Turkey and the Middle East , appeared to lend force to claims that the war was being fought for imperial gain . |