Example sentences of "[was/were] being [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another at the 15th , a hole where so many second shots were being tossed by the angry wind over the clifftop . |
| 2 | At about the same time , far away in Rome , Christians were being persecuted by the Emperor Nero . |
| 3 | The Wollo Muslims , who were being persecuted by the Shoan army , had attacked Dessie and , though defeated , were still raiding at large . |
| 4 | She told him that she and some others were being escorted by the household guard on an expedition to the country that day . |
| 5 | Some 150 northern businessmen were being questioned by the police , having come forward to volunteer information about bribes they had paid . |
| 6 | Philip 's misgivings , his hurt over Jim , were being assuaged by the Congress , and the happy atmosphere that was leading up to it . |
| 7 | All this time the bodies found , one after the other , in Mouncy Street , were being examined by the pathologists . |
| 8 | Given the turbulent nature of the city 's politics , even in good times , its well-being and contentment needed to be given careful attention and the city 's problems were being exacerbated by the continual and rapid growth of its population . |
| 9 | Only now the coherence and the poetry were being deluged by the reality , or hope , of psychedelic drugs . |
| 10 | They were being instructed by the fourth , who was treated in hospital for shock . |
| 11 | He asserted that rising crime , lawlessness in the economic sphere , and a general " legal nihilism in society " were being compounded by the authorities ' failure to act decisively . |
| 12 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 13 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 14 | Within days of the outbreak of war , prominent Arab-Americans were being visited by the FBI and asked about their knowledge of international terrorism . |
| 15 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 16 | The ban was imposed on the grounds that dolphins were being killed by the tuna fleet . |
| 17 | On Nov. 15 Wijeratne announced that Mannar had been " cleared of terrorists " and that 500 Moslem homeguards were being trained by the security forces to protect Moslem villages . |
| 18 | The resignation in March of two senior economic ministers [ see p. 37316 ] following a visit by the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , lent credence to reports that almost US$500,000,000 in credits were being withheld by the Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) because of dissatisfaction with the government 's short-term economic policies . |
| 19 | The fisherman on the bank could be the first person to notice that fish were dying or other water creatures were being affected by the pollutant that had suddenly appeared . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Jade axes were being made by the Maoris in New Zealand , almost within living memory . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , the whole lot of them were being manipulated by the men who ran the music business … |
| 25 | Mark realised they were being followed by the police . |
| 26 | I advised the Labour Party over such things as the Vassall inquiry and , together with my friend Dennis Lloyd , I was on a number of committees and investigations to recommend changes in the law — particularly land law ( the working party on land nationalisation ) and the law of landlord and tenant — which were being prepared by the Labour Party for their future use . |
| 27 | They believed their children were being abused by the system set up to protect them . |
| 28 | Thus once incomes had been pooled and responsibilities for the various household outgoings apportioned , it was clear that some of the carers in Glendinning 's study were being supported by the disabled or elderly person . |
| 29 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 30 | The most interesting of these cases is Short v. Treasury Commissioners where the whole of the shares of Short Bros. were being acquired by the Treasury under a Defence Regulation which provided for payment of their value ‘ as between a willing buyer and a willing seller . ’ |