Example sentences of "[conj] was be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she may be better now , I do n't know anything about it except dad heard that she had had it , or was being treated for it . |
| 2 | This involved a teacher treating a pupil in a manner which suggested that he or she was the same sort of person as an older brother or sister who had either offended in some way or was being offered as a worthy model . |
| 3 | By a letter of 17 October 1991 those solicitors asked the local authority to keep them informed about the progress of the assessment that was being undertaken of the father and his partner . |
| 4 | In a report to Cleveland 's health and safety committee , county safety adviser Peter Prunty admits : ‘ It would appear that the work that was being undertaken by Nacro had not been planned in sufficient detail to cover such occurrences . ’ |
| 5 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 6 | He himself emphasized his concern to record the good and bad that was being done in his own day , especially in so far as it concerned the Church , and he noted among the principal actors , kings , catholics and heretics . |
| 7 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 8 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 9 | He had been obedient and had never received the fuss that was being made over the return of his brother . |
| 10 | They were researching a new power source that was being developed by a Danish engineer . |
| 11 | In any case fear of the spread of communism reinforced the belief that Asia , too , could benefit from the treasure that was being poured into Europe by way of Marshall Aid and , as Wolf concludes : ‘ It is fair to say that the desire to avoid ‘ another China ’ no less than the desire of the Administration to avoid further Congressional attacks on its Asian policy , determined the timing of US aid to Southern Asia . ’ |
| 12 | And because also that it was er partly the , the directors ' money that was being poured into it at that time , we knew all these things , and they were expecting a , a return back from it . |
| 13 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
| 14 | They passed a cement-mixer that was being operated by two men with cement dust on their caps and dungarees . |
| 15 | And this was the prized position that was being prepared for Mike Schaffer . |
| 16 | Not only did they raise more than £1,000 but they also succeeded in helping to recruit men for a battalion of the Green Howards that was being formed at Northallerton . |
| 17 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 18 | But the argument is too neat , and dependent on the assumption of a desire on the part of filmmakers to express themselves about contemporary realities that was being repressed by the censorship system . |
| 19 | The table was to complement a new chair that was being prototyped in the workshop at the same time . |
| 20 | ‘ After missing the P-38 , a friend in Fresno , California rang me up and told me of a Corsair that was being advertised for sale in the American journal Trade-a-Plane . |
| 21 | Was that what this was all about ? ) and into the ante-room/office that was being used as the base for the investigation . |
| 22 | In the distance he could hear the requiem mass that was being piped at a discreet volume throughout the store . |
| 23 | The new Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan , combined old-style Tory patriarchy with a definitely new-style endorsement — in the famous ( and misquoted ) ‘ You 've never had it so good ’ speech of July 1957 — of the developing consumer culture that was being imported from America , of which the Teen age was an important spearhead . |
| 24 | Kate looked back at him consideringly , trying hard not to feel intimidated by the fierce energy that was being directed at her . |
| 25 | In 1955 he was employed for one week by Douglas Fairbanks Limited at Elstree as a cover director , British cover director on a T V film that was being directed by an American . |
| 26 | Some of them remained behind to tell me a length how the object was a perfect focus for their festival that was being held in memory of one of their multi-armed folk heroes . |
| 27 | The dominant message that was being provided for the public was that the law reform being proposed was essentially ‘ permissive ’ in character . |
| 28 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 29 | The meeting itself was more like a wake , for more and more athletes were finding out that they were not going to compete in Edinburgh after all because of the boycott that was being staged by the African , Caribbean and Asian countries . |
| 30 | All that they would be tendering for would be to actually run the facility , and there 's no reason to suppose that a private contractor can do that any more cheaply , if they deliver the same quality of service , as the Local Authority can do , so it would n't actually save money , all it would do would mean that control of the level of service that was being delivered at those facilities was lost from the Council to a private contractor . |