Example sentences of "was [being] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While an appeal was being examined the republic could suspend the application on its territory of the acts in contention . |
| 2 | Mr , erm paragraphs twenty four er to thirty of your proof draw our attention to the existence of the conservation area which was being debating a matter of moments ago . |
| 3 | The next day she decided to saddle the horse for a ride , but as the girth was being tightened the horse pulled back in great fear , broke its halter rope , and threw itself over backwards sending the saddle crashing to the ground . |
| 4 | This theme was being maintained a year later , by which time it was clear that the incentive that held the greatest attraction for Japanese buyers was still the discount , particularly as the hazards of lifting oil in the Gulf were making insurance so expensive . |
| 5 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 6 | At the same time as the dispute over the Dock Labour Scheme was moving rapidly through the courts , the British Railways Board was being denied an injunction against the National Union of Railwaymen . |
| 7 | The expenditure was justified by the argument that the newspaper industry existed to vilify the GLC and the rest of the left , and that the public was being denied the chance to hear the other side . |
| 8 | But you have nothing to lose — your life was being made a misery anyway . |
| 9 | Some royal anniversary , death , separation or divorce was being made the excuse to trot out a lot of cheap old newsreel footage , but it did n't matter what was on . |
| 10 | In Moss v. McLachlan for example , the setting up of road blocks , etc. , was clearly part of a coordinated police strategy , not wholly governed by the decisions of the policeman on the spot ( although , as the quote from Moss v. McLachlan illustrates , it was the assessment of the senior police officers present that was being made the subject of review ) . |
| 11 | Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat . |
| 12 | In 1715 , for example , when the collectorship of Stirlingshire was being made an issue by interests unfriendly to the Administration , the friends of the Duke of Montrose , who was then Secretary of State , arranged for John Stirling , a brother of the Laird of Herbertshire , to become collector jointly with the previous holder of the office , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet . |
| 13 | Together — with Pierre Auger and Jules Gueron he told General de Gaulle of the weapon that was being developed a year before it was used in 1945 — the General referred to this ‘ apocalyptic undertaking ’ in his memoirs . |
| 14 | The last thing I needed was being branded a mugger . |
| 15 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 16 | After all , it was n't exactly as if he was being given a choice . |
| 17 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 18 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 19 | Not only was this the evidence of a wonderful and mysterious world in which I had no place , I was being given the chance to destroy the evidence . |
| 20 | He was being given the right of reply , it was pointed out , at which point he put the phone down . |
| 21 | I was being kissed a lot lately : I needed the affection , I can tell you . |
| 22 | So , at least , she was being offered a chance to state her case ! |
| 23 | The lady was being offered a gas mask by Carter and gladly took it , just before she fainted as they entered the smoke filled floor . |
| 24 | He was being offered a job , being offered good money , and he 'd be based in London . |
| 25 | When the history of the church was being researched a footnote in an 18th century volume identified a drawing of some stained-glass panels which had long since fallen into disrepair and had been replaced by plain lights . |
| 26 | She imagined the English departments of various American universities converted into huge breakers ' yards in which was being dismantled the edifice of world literature … |
| 27 | The voice was calm and soft and the words were ordinary , but he knew he was being told a horror story . |
| 28 | Mr Stephens said he was uncertain if he was being told the truth by the Government over any hidden agenda on privatisation . |
| 29 | A MYSTERY passer-by was being hailed a hero last night after rescuing three children , two of them aged two and four , and their grandmother from deep clinging mud on a North Wales beach yesterday . |
| 30 | Jimmy , 62 , said yesterday : ‘ I suppose it was rather strange being told I was being awarded the CBE while standing there in the altogether . |