Example sentences of "[was/were] being make [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A plans were being made for a meeting of Allied socialists in February to endorse Labour 's War Aims . |
2 | 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 . |
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 | [ See pp. 38161 ; 38304-05 ; for 1991 First Compensation Law on expropriated property ; the amount of compensation under both laws would be calculated as if the total claim were being made on the basis of one law . ] |
9 | Urgent plans were being made at the London office to fly next of kin to Katmandu tomorrow . |
10 | Reg says many other decisions were being made about the churchyard without involving him . |
11 | Not since England 's Derek Randall has a cricketer been so feted for his work in the field , and inevitably comparisons were being made with the legendary Colin Bland , his fellow countryman with the Exocet-like throwing arm . |
12 | While Eloise was sailed round to Holyhead with a prize crew from the cutters on board , more arrests were being made around the country and suspects were picked up in Sussex , Dorset , London , South Wales and County Durham . |
13 | Through the 1960s and '70s , subtle changes and reassessments were being made in the relationship between central government ( which supplied much of the money ) and the local authorities which spent it . |
14 | It was a time when many advances were being made in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions for which little could be done before . |
15 | Cutbacks were being made in the provision of security which were leading to more cars being stolen and also placing an extra burden on the families who were visiting sick or loved ones . |
16 | The bricks were being made from the soil in the house 's backyard . |
17 | If the decisions were being made by a planning inquiry and we were the planning inspectors , would we give permission for the spending of someone else 's money on such as project ? |
18 | Within a few months , similar statements were being made by the king , Stanley Baldwin , Ramsay MacDonald , Ernest Bevin , and a whole host of trade unionists . |
19 | Jade axes were being made by the Maoris in New Zealand , almost within living memory . |
20 | Finally it must be remembered that , at this stage , the majority of the Cossacks still had no inkling of the preparations that were being made by the British to hand them back . |
21 | The second reason just if I could point erm we only learnt this morning of the landscape design erm where we understood that savings were being made by the four members of staff organisation . |
22 | Her speech went as well as was possible , given that it was being made on the stickiest of sticky Parliamentary wickets . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | As Doctor Who swung into production , envious eyes in the Children 's Department studied its apparently lavish costume and set provisions , distinctly convinced that the programme was being made with an inflated budget won at the expense of cutbacks in standard children 's output . |
26 | The review of the recording of La Mer is especially interesting for the debate it prompts within Porter himself , who admits to a prejudice against some Karajan performances , not before they start , but within moments of the opening , when it might be felt that — in those days — too much was being made of the music . |
27 | By the outbreak of World War II rather more was being made of the ceremony itself , but it would appear that the reasons given by working class couples heading for the altar were still somewhat pragmatic . |
28 | In one accident I witnessed , the take off was being made towards the glare of the sun . |
29 | A slow — admittedly a very slow start — was being made to the build-up of a long-range nuclear bomber force . |
30 | 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 . |