Example sentences of "[was/were] be [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 2 | reported that quotations were being sought for the 1993 ‘ Embalmer ’ magazines . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | By the beginning of 1986 , when alternative facilities were being planned for the combined residual population of both St Wulstan 's and Powick , it had been recognized that |
| 9 | Two small tank locomotives were being prepared for the weekend 's work amidst a scene of almost dereliction . |
| 10 | In most homes in the area , prayers were being said for the deliverance of a husband , father , son or brother , and several families had more than one man involved . |
| 11 | Dell Computer Corp international president Andrew Harris resigned and the company promoted Joel Kocher to president of all sales , marketing and service operations worldwide ; he had been president of Dell USA ; Dell said that both men were being considered for the post and after Kocher got the job , a disappointed Harris decided to resign . |
| 12 | Several bypasses were being considered for the road , he added . |
| 13 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 14 | In many ports , joint meetings of shipowners and men were being held for the discussion of grievances . |
| 15 | Within months royal licences were being issued for the alienation of property to the church despite the statute . |
| 16 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 17 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 18 | The winds that were being reported for the hurricane did not include the ground speed that the storm was tracking . |
| 19 | The Keraing , however , had put the wheels in motion , and while Sinar Surya was being prepared for the sea , and the pirates were still arguing about where she might go , and with whom , Lorne and I spent the following weeks suppressing our impatience by exploring our surroundings . |
| 20 | We submitted a detailed response to the NRA 's proposed scheme of water quality improvement targets which was being prepared for the Secretary of State 's approval . |
| 21 | A report was being prepared for the June 1992 European Council summit in Lisbon on the institutional changes which would be needed if the EC were to expand its membership significantly . |
| 22 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 23 | A file was being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 24 | Police said yesterday a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 25 | Police confirmed yesterday a man has been arrested in connection with the killing and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 26 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 27 | The conference was being arranged for the Founders and regional activists to meet the newly arriving senior staff . |
| 28 | Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority . |
| 29 | The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself . |
| 30 | Mr Leslie Draper , her solicitor , said : ‘ She was appalled at the hardship following atrocities in Northern Ireland and was not convinced enough was being done for the people left behind . |