Example sentences of "[be] [be] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Urgent plans were being made at the London office to fly next of kin to Katmandu tomorrow . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 40 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 41 | It is believed both men were being held at the high-security Paddington Green police station last night . |
| 42 | However , UI chief Peter Cunningham , speaking from the dais , alluded to discussions that were being held at the highest levels and suggested that they were very close to some sort of agreement . |
| 43 | They were being held at the local police station . |
| 44 | Round hands As has been suggested in the last section , secretary and humanistic italic , both cursive hands , were being used at the same time in England for all kinds of general and vernacular purposes . |
| 45 | Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy . |
| 46 | The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged . |
| 47 | During the year , pesticides whose use is banned in the US were being exported at the rate of 15 tons a day . |
| 48 | Charlie shot him a glance , but the words were being directed at the occupant of the next bed . |
| 49 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 50 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 51 | We formed a group among ourselves and used to meet and play through the works that were being performed at the opera that next day — two pianos , four pianists , some singers , a small chorus . |
| 52 | Wellingborough against Brackley in the Hillier Cup , that 's being played at the Dog and Duck ground , I would imagine it 's blow football in a pub , and finally , in the Overton Papers combination , pretty boring this one — Watford Reserves against Oxford Reserves . |
| 53 | Can I remind conference that there 'll be a collection for the Burnsall strikers , that 's being taken at the door , immediately you going out . |
| 54 | County roles take members into schools in their day-to-day work , and for some of the team 's functions ( especially the selection of schools for recommendation for inclusion in the project ) the project role is being played at the same time . |
| 55 | This is a United Nations embargo , er and er all ships are required to comply with it , er and er the British , Australian , American ships which combined in this action , and we 've just had another one , and er also , there which involved also different ships , but involved er British , Australian and American ships as well , er and that ship is being inspected at the present time . |
| 56 | Money is being raised at the moment to provide houses for those who come out first . |
| 57 | Italy 's honour is being saved at the moment by the private sector ; local industries and banks are adopting projects , and although the choice of priorities is not always beyond criticism , their efforts shame the government 's . |
| 58 | The Six Hundred series , made in collaboration with the Japanese , is being built at the Cowley plant . |
| 59 | Around 2 million hectares of natural forest remain , and this is being cleared at the rate of around 100,000-200,000 hectares every year . |
| 60 | The experimental GROPE system , which gives tactile feedback , is being developed at the University of North Carolina . |