Example sentences of "[was/were] being [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 2 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 3 | His self-image and his idealism were being threatened at the anvil of reality . |
| 4 | The two men , who were being questioned at the high-security Paddington Green police station in central London under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , will appear at Arbour Square Magistrates ' Court this morning . |
| 5 | At the last minute , however , when the terms were being finalised at the papal court , the French withdrew : the making of such concessions , which involved so much principle as well as territory , could not be countenanced . |
| 6 | In January 1941 , the local newspaper carried a description of the fires of London reflected in the southern sky , and in the same issue of the Bedfordshire Times it was reported that a member of the Area Guardians Committee had stated that a number of men employed as labourers on government works were being lodged at the Public Assistance Institution as casuals . |
| 7 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 8 | And was partially at least the inevitable consequence of the fact that the Murphy brothers were being prosecuted at the same time as the complaint against the arresting officers was being investigated . |
| 9 | Ministry of Defence and the centralization of the Defence votes , which were being studied at the same time as the Skybolt/Polaris crisis was coming to a head . |
| 10 | Urgent plans were being made at the London office to fly next of kin to Katmandu tomorrow . |
| 11 | The new farmsteads were being built at the same time , set snugly into shelter belts of oak , beech and elm , nursed up by Scots pines . |
| 12 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 13 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 14 | It is believed both men were being held at the high-security Paddington Green police station last night . |
| 15 | However , UI chief Peter Cunningham , speaking from the dais , alluded to discussions that were being held at the highest levels and suggested that they were very close to some sort of agreement . |
| 16 | They were being held at the local police station . |
| 17 | Round hands As has been suggested in the last section , secretary and humanistic italic , both cursive hands , were being used at the same time in England for all kinds of general and vernacular purposes . |
| 18 | Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy . |
| 19 | The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged . |
| 20 | During the year , pesticides whose use is banned in the US were being exported at the rate of 15 tons a day . |
| 21 | Charlie shot him a glance , but the words were being directed at the occupant of the next bed . |
| 22 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 23 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 24 | We formed a group among ourselves and used to meet and play through the works that were being performed at the opera that next day — two pianos , four pianists , some singers , a small chorus . |
| 25 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 26 | When the tower was being constructed at the end of the 12th century , it started keeling over . |
| 27 | Even so , there was broad agreement that this evidence of innovation and vibrancy was being achieved at the cost of institutional inertia , a reluctance to champion enterprise , and an avoidance of any deep-seated restoration of the national economy . |
| 28 | Critics could argue that higher productivity was being achieved at the cost of pushing patients out of hospital " quicker and sicker " , and increasing the number of patients treated was still consistent with unmet need . |
| 29 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 30 | A spokesman said a substantial amount of Derv was spilled while a rail tanker was being filled at the North Tees road and rail terminal . |