Example sentences of "[was/were] [being] make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas about the structure of glass date back 50 years or more to when the first diffuse X-ray scattering measurements on the material were being made a by B. E. Warren and others . |
| 2 | But you have nothing to lose — your life was being made a misery anyway . |
| 3 | He said he had to resign because he felt he was being made the ‘ fall guy ’ for breaches of the law he had no control over . |
| 4 | In Moss v. McLachlan for example , the setting up of road blocks , etc. , was clearly part of a coordinated police strategy , not wholly governed by the decisions of the policeman on the spot ( although , as the quote from Moss v. McLachlan illustrates , it was the assessment of the senior police officers present that was being made the subject of review ) . |
| 5 | Some royal anniversary , death , separation or divorce was being made the excuse to trot out a lot of cheap old newsreel footage , but it did n't matter what was on . |
| 6 | Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat . |
| 7 | In 1715 , for example , when the collectorship of Stirlingshire was being made an issue by interests unfriendly to the Administration , the friends of the Duke of Montrose , who was then Secretary of State , arranged for John Stirling , a brother of the Laird of Herbertshire , to become collector jointly with the previous holder of the office , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet . |