Example sentences of "were [being] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brought his ballad finished ’ , we hardly need to be reminded that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel , and other poems were being written at this time . |
| 2 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 3 | It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time . |
| 4 | It is understood that the three youths being questioned were being held at separate police stations in Liverpool . |
| 5 | With consumption growing at only about 1 per cent a year ( the rate of growth of the labour force ) , the system would have become one in which machines were being installed at hectic rates in order to produce other machines . |
| 6 | In 1820 he was sent to Fort Augustus , where the locks of the Caledonian canal were under construction , and , as his father was well known to everyone there , he was given the opportunity of learning not only masonry but all the branches of civil and mechanical engineering that were being practised at that time . |
| 7 | In WIRRAL , displays were being staged at Lower Park in Birkenhead Park , Central Park in Wallasey , Leasowe Adventure Playground , Mayer Park in Bebington , Woodchurch Community Centre , Upton Park in Moreton and Lingham Park in Moreton ( all at 6.30pm ) . |
| 8 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 9 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 10 | Whole research cruises where water samples were being taken at many depths , every sample that came back was titrated on board ship to get the silver nitrate to establish the chlorinity and hence the salinity . |
| 11 | ( Including information about job characteristics improved the extent to which pay variance within the sexes was explained , but it did not explain very much more of the gap between the sexes since men and women in apparently similar sorts of jobs were being paid at different rates . ) |