Example sentences of "[was/were] [be] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks between Russian officials and a high-level delegation led by the foreign secretary J. N. Dixit , who arrived in Moscow on Feb. 13 , ended with the signing of a bilateral trade agreement under which goods exchanged were be valued in dollars but paid for in rupees , pending a settlement of the rupee-rouble exchange rate . |
| 2 | True , they were were taken in the heady surrounding of St Tropez , where every girl takes 'em off , and where Fergie and Johnny and Bea and Eugenie were staying in a modest £450,000 terracotta pink villa . |
| 3 | They were concerned about the implications of what influences were being exerted in their island society . |
| 4 | As the first turfs for Hinkley A power station were being dug in early 1958 , an unnamed correspondent in The Times reported how a stretch of countryside that had inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge 150 years before was about to savour the fruits of ‘ the atom age ’ : |
| 5 | Similar questions were being asked in the social sphere , notably with regard to health and to the role of women in society . |
| 6 | So what ( as they in their ignorance saw it ) does it matter if a few ‘ commies ’ were being shot in Spain ? |
| 7 | His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey . |
| 8 | The cuts in the bureaucracy and the anti-corruption campaign were complemented by the announcement on Sept. 28 that 93 " people 's councils " ( consejos populares ) were being formed in Havana to oversee the drive against corruption and the provision of local services . |
| 9 | Acknowledging that far fewer companies were being formed in Scotland than in England , he said that the root cause — too few Scots having any economic power — was changing . |
| 10 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 11 | New jobs , particularly in financial and professional services were being created in the City and in Docklands but were not going to local residents . |
| 12 | A Yard statement said the five were being questioned in connection with the alleged dishonest handling of £16m of the £26m in gold bars stolen in November 1983 from the Brink's-Mat bullion warehouse at Heathrow airport . |
| 13 | Shortly after Abe 's arrest it was reported that other members of the Miyazawa faction were being questioned in connection with the affair . |
| 14 | All of this meant that Paisley 's criticisms of apostasy were being uttered in a considerably more apostate era than the times in which Hunter and Grier had failed to promote their schism . |
| 15 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |
| 17 | They were equating ( and as Saunders points out this was later to lead to confusion ) Mead 's concern with the relations between self and society , with these relations as they were being constructed in specific geographical contexts such as Chicago or one of Chicago 's zones . |
| 18 | At the same time as these theories were being explored in the world of school — theories designed to make the pupil the equal of the teacher — the concept of equality was beginning to have a powerful effect on education in a more overtly political sense . |
| 19 | The first Ordnance Surveys of the island were being undertaken in three sections : Portree/Dunvegan , Staffin/Quiraing , the Cuillins . |
| 20 | There were also fears that the same trends of homelessness among mentally ill people as had become apparent in the USA were being repeated in Britain . |
| 21 | Now that the Spot the Talent competition was over teas were being served in the marquee . |
| 22 | When systems were being adopted in branches of physical geography there were similar developments in other earth sciences . |
| 23 | Although O'Keefe announced that he was taking no action against Howard , he emphasized a variety of measures which were being adopted in order to improve naval attitudes towards women and to facilitate future investigations of such incidents . |
| 24 | Other sources say that by the seventeenth century big , stately , black longhorns were being reared in Yorkshire , Derbyshire , Lancashire and Staffordshire and that by the eighteenth century there was a large , rangy , big-hoofed plough-ox type which could also give acceptable though ordinary meat and the cows could give reasonable milk well suited for cheese-making . |
| 25 | On Oct. 30 Talabani warned that the government planned an economic blockade against parts of Kurdistan , and claimed that civil services were being withdrawn in a move tantamount to " a declaration of economic war " . |
| 26 | ‘ Our boys ’ were being nurtured in the belief that they were the leaders of tomorrow , the ‘ happy few ’ who would one day be running whatever had now taken the place of the Empire . |
| 27 | Monroe and Bardot could hardly be held up as examples of the joys of fidelity , domesticity and motherhood which were being hymned in the magazines . |
| 28 | I was sent hither and thither on messages , and sometimes went in the car with a billeting officer to help him or her with young children who were being placed in homes . |
| 29 | This may help to explain the suspicion entertained by many of his friends that they were being placed in special compartments , never to mingle with those in other compartments , like cells in the honeycomb of his private life . |
| 30 | Bush made his statement after receiving a CIA report in mid-February , which had informed him that Israeli claims that under 1 per cent of Soviet immigrants were being settled in the " occupied territories " was only partly true , because a further 10 per cent were being placed in settlements in East Jerusalem . |