Example sentences of "it was [being] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’ |
| 2 | The Oval was a good cricket wicket despite the stories that it was being prepared for Laker and Lock . |
| 3 | Actually the bulk of it was being done in her father 's absence by his accountant , but still there was enough left for Rory occasionally to feel swamped . |
| 4 | a very small ship , a frigate , and er the captain was at most Lieutenant Commander and the Princess Royal was doing the re-dedication and because it was the winter it was being done inside a big shed , that 's the background . |
| 5 | The students were rapidly becoming the most vocal critics of reform as it was being implemented by the government led by Deng Xiaoping . |
| 6 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 7 | Up until then the beleaguered Addamax stood to win no matter how the government decided since it was being bid by both Planning Research Corp and its rival Control Data Systems Inc . |
| 8 | Up until then the beleaguered Addamax stood to win no matter how the government decided since it was being bid by both PRC and its rival Control Data Systems . |
| 9 | The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself . |
| 10 | In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this cursive italic style gained ground as an alternative to secretary , although as Hector says ( op cit ) , ‘ By 1600 it was being written with such magnificent disregard of any calligraphical rules that it might be illegible to the writer 's contemporaries and compatriots . ’ |
| 11 | When the bank went into liquidation repayment was demanded and Raper immediately started a £15m action for damages , saying it was being called in earlier than agreed . |
| 12 | By the early 1830s it was being run by the partnership of Leonard , Woolbright and Co , but by 1840 it was controlled by Nathaniel Samuel Marling , followed by Samuel Stephens Marling . |
| 13 | Then it was being run by the aptly named Thomas Mill . |
| 14 | All I will say here is that Bukharin was far too sanguine in his treatment of such a transition , even allowing for the fact that it was being treated at a purely abstract level . |
| 15 | In this enterprise he had the support of one of the leading Norman ‘ dissidents ’ , Geoffroi d'Harcourt , who represented the dissatisfaction of the duchy at the way it was being ruled by the Valois king . |
| 16 | But the antagonism of his opponents was the more bitter for the way in which the left felt that it was being robbed of victory in the country by the propaganda stunt of the Zinoviev letter . |
| 17 | ‘ That was the first High Queen 's instruction when it was being raised from the rock . |
| 18 | Roger Wade , co-owner of the Boxfresh label and now handling UK fashion sales for the Carhartt brand gives an insight into the emergence of workwear : ‘ For probably two years there were only really bits and pieces of names like Carhartt being worn — it was a very small thing , but it was being worn by the right people . |
| 19 | Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen . |
| 20 | Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation ( some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot 's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is ‘ asiatic ’ , outside the confines of Europe . |
| 21 | Hunter-Blair said he warned MacQuillan that it was being whispered around Westminster that the unions had evolved a protective strategy and were looking for an opportunity to test it . |
| 22 | The images of youth arose from a society in which the middle class was reviving its claim to political and cultural leadership at the very time when it was being challenged by the new class politics . |
| 23 | A Western consultancy attempting to track down the money lost in this way said that much of it was being deposited in foreign banks . |
| 24 | Having successfully demonstrated the safety of his method of treatment so that it was being adopted by inoculators throughout the country Sutton had already unwittingly performed his greatest service in the fight against smallpox . |
| 25 | It left her free to be moved by the whole range of feeling , which was fragmented by personal action : the enmeshed lovers , the pleasure of the children , the beauty of her daughter , the fondling of the gentle night air , the great sky deepening gradually but surely , as it was being veiled in film on film of darker blues and velvets , it was all for her . |
| 26 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 27 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
| 28 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 29 | POLICE are hunting a mugger who tipped a baby out of a pushchair as it was being pushed by a 64-year-old woman . |
| 30 | That could only have happened if the Left did not know what was going on , and it could only have not known what was going on if it was being tricked by one of its own . |