Example sentences of "[was/were] being make for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the stand of Rolls-Royce and Bentley , however , no excuses were being made for the reawakening of one of Britain 's best known and loved marques from 40 years of savage badge engineering . |
| 2 | Here in May 1942 — before the raid on Dieppe that August — plans were being made for the landings in North Africa that would put an American Task Force ashore on the Atlantic coast near Casablanca , a second force ashore at Oran in the Mediterranean , and a third further east at Algiers . |
| 3 | A plans were being made for a meeting of Allied socialists in February to endorse Labour 's War Aims . |
| 4 | What was new after 1933 in respect of these films was that they were being made for a nation that was experiencing a new politicization and by a Hollywood that was equally trying to redefine its role within the culture . |
| 5 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |
| 6 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 7 | We were also aware that ‘ TTT ’ began to be in danger of becoming yet another over-used and under-defined primary slogan and all kinds of claims were being made for its educational efficacy for children simply because of the novelty , stimulus and enjoyment which it could give to their teachers . |
| 8 | She felt that she had lost control of her own life and that decisions were being made for her , not by her . |
| 9 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 10 | Arrangements were being made for signature by Estonia , Kirghistan , Lithuania , Moldova and Turkmenistan . |
| 11 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |
| 12 | Television cameras all over the place recorded everything both for news items that evening and for the two-hour Support Canadian Racing programme which posters everywhere announced was being made for a gala showing coast to coast after the triple had been completed in Vancouver . |