Example sentences of "[was/were] [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 2 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 3 | This quartet , clothed in black from head to foot in commando style woollen caps , roll-neck sweaters , trousers and combat boots , had their hands cuffed behind their backs , and were being escorted at gun point . |
| 4 | His self-image and his idealism were being threatened at the anvil of reality . |
| 5 | In a permissive society where officialdom and authority were being questioned at every turn , misbehaviour and impetuousness became a badge of courage and style . |
| 6 | The two men , who were being questioned at the high-security Paddington Green police station in central London under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , will appear at Arbour Square Magistrates ' Court this morning . |
| 7 | Both men were arrested and were being questioned at Northwich police station last night . |
| 8 | If one were to count heads , particularly among younger economists , Keynesian ideas were being eclipsed at quite an astonishing speed . |
| 9 | He brought his ballad finished ’ , we hardly need to be reminded that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel , and other poems were being written at this time . |
| 10 | At the last minute , however , when the terms were being finalised at the papal court , the French withdrew : the making of such concessions , which involved so much principle as well as territory , could not be countenanced . |
| 11 | In January 1941 , the local newspaper carried a description of the fires of London reflected in the southern sky , and in the same issue of the Bedfordshire Times it was reported that a member of the Area Guardians Committee had stated that a number of men employed as labourers on government works were being lodged at the Public Assistance Institution as casuals . |
| 12 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 13 | By the age of seven , more than half the boys and nearly a third of the girls were being hit at least once a week . |
| 14 | Out of the corner of her eye , she caught the fact that they were being stared at with unveiled interest by most members of the group , the most curious of all , of course , being Mandy . |
| 15 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 16 | The actual driving force behind American thinking on a renewal of atomic collaborations was anxiety about uranium ore supplies , which were being consumed at an increasing rate as American programmes accelerated . |
| 17 | He had complained about the way a mother and her child were being treated at Harmondsworth . |
| 18 | SIX YEARS ago San Diego 's police were being killed at a higher rate than the police in any other big American city . |
| 19 | And was partially at least the inevitable consequence of the fact that the Murphy brothers were being prosecuted at the same time as the complaint against the arresting officers was being investigated . |
| 20 | Two separate surveys found that many prepacked sandwiches were being stored at dangerously high temperatures , causing the spread of harmful bacteria . |
| 21 | Ministry of Defence and the centralization of the Defence votes , which were being studied at the same time as the Skybolt/Polaris crisis was coming to a head . |
| 22 | It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time . |
| 23 | Urgent plans were being made at the London office to fly next of kin to Katmandu tomorrow . |
| 24 | Planning Applications Certain alterations were being made at No. 36 Belmont Road . |
| 25 | Planning Applications Certain alterations were being made at No. 36 Belmont Road . |
| 26 | The long list have been told that erm , erm , notices were being made at and I think that 's right , is n't it ? |
| 27 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 28 | Spanish onions bought at a wholesale market in Birmingham were being unloaded at a depot near Evesham in Worcestershire when a worker noticed a cardboard parcel stuffed between the bags . |
| 29 | According to figures released on Aug. 16 , 1990 , by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) , tropical rainforests were being destroyed at a rate of 168,000 sq km annually as compared with a rate of 94,000 sq km in 1980 . |
| 30 | The new farmsteads were being built at the same time , set snugly into shelter belts of oak , beech and elm , nursed up by Scots pines . |