Example sentences of "[was/were] being set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |
| 2 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 3 | Instead of soldiers , tourists armed only with cameras patrolled the freshly washed cobbles of the square , while , outside the various restaurants and the tabac on the corner , tables with bright umbrellas were being set out in the sunshine . |
| 4 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 5 | Some months previously , in London , a small film called John and Mary , based on a novella by Mervyn Jones , was being set up to be directed by Anthony Harvey , whose first film . |
| 6 | " Juvenus " remarked that a " girls " chapel " was being set up in the GPO of members of the Edinburgh Typographical Society on temporary secondment . |