Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [being] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workforce in many work units was being trimmed in order to improve efficiency and save money . |
| 2 | The FMLN also claimed that aid from international organizations was being prevented from reaching them and that captured FMLN members were now being held as political prisoners . |
| 3 | CSTK had reported on Sept. 24 that the number of Slovak ministries was being reduced from 17 to 13 . |
| 4 | In the hope that deteriorating wartime conditions in Vietnam would spark insurrection , a liberation army of sorts was being formed on the border ; but when the attack went off at half-cock ( leaders executed or arrested and followers dispersed ) another threat to the French position was removed and it must have become clear that the only credible threat to French power lay in France itself , at least until the forces of nationalism were able to attract some effective outside sponsorship or else embed themselves in the people to the point where they became an organized national resistance . |
| 5 | In Green v Burnett [ 1954 ] 3 All ER 273 it was held that an employer was guilty of ‘ using ’ , as a vehicle with defective brakes was being used on his business . |
| 6 | A girl , aged two , who was locked in her home for nearly 24 hours with the bodies of her dead parents was being looked after by relatives yesterday . |
| 7 | When the exam was introduced there was outcry as people realised English in some areas was being marked on 100 per cent course work with no final examination . |
| 8 | The Welsh were not suffering alone : A stockpile of sandbags was being prepared in north Devon last night after it was badly hit by flash floods . |
| 9 | The European of Sept. 10 , 1990 , reported on a European Parliament paper which found that EC aid to developing countries was being spent on projects which directly destroyed the forests of Asia , Africa and South America . |
| 10 | However , we did see sets of study skills booklets acquired through the project ( in one case being used in library lessons ) , and in another school project work originating in tutorial periods was being developed in study skills lessons with a view to using specific project purchases . |
| 11 | The working party 's report on political offences was being considered in late May . |
| 12 | The first wave of British bands was being supplanted by the new Californian sound . |
| 13 | The idea arose from fears expressed in western industrialized countries that the free market of ideas was being threatened by the fact that the prohibitive costs of entry into media ownership prevented the involvement of anyone other than rich individuals or large corporations . |
| 14 | It may be noted that although throughout the preceding period the vast proportion of the nation 's building costs was being spent on war damage repairs and reinstatement , an activity in which building and quantity surveyors provided invaluable service , the building surveyor made no impact within the Institution at this time . |
| 15 | The din became even louder as we turned into Trinity where a gang of felons was being driven about London in a cart wearing a scrawled notice around their neck listing their offence . |
| 16 | None of the YCs had realized that the decision to rehouse the families was being taken by the Conservative council . |
| 17 | The movements were strongly influenced by the stylised Bugako players and were appropriate to each scene , but oddly enough the whole appeared too static , as if a series of japanese prints was being paraded before the audience . |
| 18 | This was partly because our college 's provision for students with severe learning difficulties was being recommended by careers officers from other authorities . |
| 19 | As a result in some areas the ability of local officers to deal with other customers was being affected by the number of review applications . ’ |
| 20 | However , an FOE survey showed that only 13 per cent of coolant from domestic refrigerators was being recovered by local councils ; many authorities had no collection scheme in operation . |
| 21 | It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office . |
| 22 | A GANG of neo-Nazis was being hunted by police last night after two women and a 10-year-old girl were killed when their home was firebombed . |
| 23 | One of the prime aims of the system of Soviets was being thwarted in this region , and in many others throughout Russia . |
| 24 | While the Independent Companies were returning from Norway , an extension of the idea for independent forces was being shaped in Whitehall . |
| 25 | Gradually the idea of serving the king in his wars was being replaced by the need to serve the res publica , a less particular and more all-embracing higher good . |
| 26 | Occasionally it was suspected that the behaviour of respondents was being affected by the presence of the field-worker , to what extent it is impossible to estimate , but this is the disadvantage of all overt research techniques and is not unique to ethnography . |
| 27 | Teachers at the school were worried that the elements of combat and destruction in some games was being reflected in more aggressive playground behaviour . |
| 28 | A Scottish Office spokesman confirmed that the whole issue of so-called new age travellers was being considered by the Secretary of State 's standing committee on travellers . |
| 29 | A Mounties spokesman said the death blast 600ft down in the Yellowknife mine in the Northwest Territories was being treated as ‘ multiple homicide ’ . |
| 30 | By early 1990 an ‘ NEPP-plus ’ containing additional measures was being prepared by the Cabinet for submission to the Second Chamber . |