Example sentences of "[was/were] [being] carry [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the last century , when repairs were being carried out to embankment walls enclosing the loch , a Pictish canoe hewn from a single , solid piece of wood was dug from exposed silt . |
| 2 | Inquiries were being carried out in Spain in the hunt for her mother , who had walk-on parts in two episodes of the TV series The Bill . |
| 3 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |
| 4 | Although it was being carried out at Winnington , home of ICI 's Alkali Division , it was being sponsored in part by the company 's dyestuffs interests , in the hope that it might provide new routes to organic chemicals used as intermediates . |
| 5 | A CRS spokesman said recruitment was being carried out at Birkenhead Job Centre . |
| 6 | Renewed seismic work was being carried out between Hurst and West Lepe in December . |