Example sentences of "was being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report was being prepared for the June 1992 European Council summit in Lisbon on the institutional changes which would be needed if the EC were to expand its membership significantly . |
| 2 | At about the same time as The School Curriculum was being prepared by the DES , the now defunct Schools Council was preparing its own document . |
| 3 | The change of Manager in 1974 coincided with Local Government Reorganisation which provided an opportunity for Derek Hyde , a Lancashire man himself , to leave Coventry City Transport which was being absorbed into the West Midlands PTE and come to Blackpool . |
| 4 | Further , during these years the possibilities of the wireless as a teaching medium was being explored through the BBC 's ‘ Listening-in ’ groups . |
| 5 | Red alerts are in force on 11 rivers and a close watch was being kept on the Thames as the National Rivers Authority opened a flood incident room . |
| 6 | Consequently , it was stated , a one-year " notice of termination " was being served on the USA on Dec. 31 , requiring that the base be returned to Philippine control before the end of 1992 . |
| 7 | The argument is extended to the work of the units themselves each of which is felt ‘ to have its own strengths ’ and which , at a time when some pressure was being exerted by the LEA , should be permitted to retain its distinctive and separate character . |
| 8 | An hour later I was being monitored at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital — weak contractions confirmed in labour , I was sent to the ward in a wheelchair . |
| 9 | This afternoon he was being presented with the Banbridge District Plaque by council chairman Drew Nelson , and among the congratulatory telegrams was one from Buckingham Palace . |
| 10 | By mid-1946 , serious alarm was being expressed within the USA about Soviet expansion in Europe ( coupled with the revelations from Canada of a Soviet atomic spy ring ) , and a tougher line began to emerge from the White House on foreign policy issues . |
| 11 | The 21-year-old track star learned he was being banished from the Barcelona Olympics in a letter delivered to him at 12.30am on Wednesday . |
| 12 | She was being born as the Samtampa went down . |
| 13 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 14 | In this enterprise he had the support of one of the leading Norman ‘ dissidents ’ , Geoffroi d'Harcourt , who represented the dissatisfaction of the duchy at the way it was being ruled by the Valois king . |
| 15 | The produce was being sent to the Merseyside smelters such as Thos . |
| 16 | He was being shown round the Abbotsbury Swannery and was talking to swanherd John Fair near a swan and her cygnets when the swan took exception . |
| 17 | But A new one scheme road pricing system was being introduced in The Hague will be watched carefully , he Mr Parkinson promised . |
| 18 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |
| 19 | He told workers at Cleveland Structural Engineering yesterday ‘ political pressure ’ was being put on the Hong Kong government . |
| 20 | It was mostly material like this which was being dumped in the mid-Atlantic . |
| 21 | Already however , the Luftwaffe had been reduced in strength in Sicily as units began moving over to Libya to support the new German Afrika Korps , which was being assembled in the Tripoli area . |
| 22 | The Oct. 21 releases formed part of a comprehensive process of exchange of Western hostages , Arabs held by Israel and its SLA allies , and Israelis missing in Lebanon , which was being negotiated by the UN . |
| 23 | The releases formed part of a comprehensive process of exchange of Western hostages , Arabs held by Israel and its militia ally the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) and Israeli military personnel missing in Lebanon , which was being negotiated by the UN . |
| 24 | The apparent change in US policy was reportedly prompted by the refusal of some Arab states , notably Egypt and Syria , to back punitive strikes against Iraq , following an invitation on July 15 by President Saddam Hussein to the Arab League asking it to inspect Iraqi nuclear facilities to prove that nothing was being concealed from the UN . |
| 25 | A report obtained from the US military , however , shows that waste was being shipped to the UK during the period January 1990 to March 1991 . |
| 26 | The two of them were bound for Templeton 's Christmas dance which was being held in the St Andrew 's Halls . |