Example sentences of "were being [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High above Miles 's head , beyond the terminus bubble , the Bridge itself was trembling ; it was becoming more difficult to see , as if something were being called into shape around the central shaft . |
| 2 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 3 | It was not only the female compositors who were being asked for support . |
| 4 | In one area where the troops were being maintained by air droppings , the Corps Commander gave orders that all parachutes were to be handed over to the local Burmese who were in rags . |
| 5 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 6 | In the early 1970s more and more allegations of cohabitation were being investigated , and more women were being deprived of benefit on these grounds . |
| 7 | Fifty minutes later shareholders at the annual meeting of United 's parent company were being assured by chairman Professor Roland Smith that cash was available any time Alex Ferguson wanted it — but no mention of the fiasco that had scorched the airwaves a short time before . |
| 8 | By 1673 , he thought that too many of his supporters were being exposed to danger by his presence so he went off to Ireland for a cooling-down period . |
| 9 | This quartet , clothed in black from head to foot in commando style woollen caps , roll-neck sweaters , trousers and combat boots , had their hands cuffed behind their backs , and were being escorted at gun point . |
| 10 | The younger drivers were obviously under heavy pressure from their teams : they had spent years getting into the sport and they were being threatened with dismissal . |
| 11 | In the autonomous Serbian province of Kosovo , where 6,000 Albanian teachers were being threatened with dismissal for refusal to comply with the Serbian curriculum , some 1,000 Albanian teachers demonstrating in the capital , Pristina , on Sept. 10 were dispersed by police . |
| 12 | If the job already exists a job specification should still be drawn up as though the job were being created from scratch . |
| 13 | A Yard statement said the five were being questioned in connection with the alleged dishonest handling of £16m of the £26m in gold bars stolen in November 1983 from the Brink's-Mat bullion warehouse at Heathrow airport . |
| 14 | Shortly after Abe 's arrest it was reported that other members of the Miyazawa faction were being questioned in connection with the affair . |
| 15 | This worried me and other colleagues because , at that time , we felt that non-educational criteria were being imposed on school work and he was trying to fill his theatre at a slack time of the year . |
| 16 | Ascending and descending colonic biopsy specimens were taken from 12 patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis who were being examined as part of a programme to screen for dysplasia/malignancy , and from 12 patients who acted as controls , who did not have ulcerative colitis . |
| 17 | Witnesses er who 've who 've been on to us have described seeing five people dead , and at least three wounded who were being rushed to hospital . |
| 18 | The findings of the research , which were being undertaken on behalf of the HCIMA by the University of Surrey , would be used to extend the Association 's existing Corpus of Knowledge research , providing information on the functions hospitality industry managers perform at different levels and in different situations , to raise the profile of the 23000-strong professional body within the European forum . |
| 19 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 20 | Although O'Keefe announced that he was taking no action against Howard , he emphasized a variety of measures which were being adopted in order to improve naval attitudes towards women and to facilitate future investigations of such incidents . |
| 21 | Maxwell plea : Maxwell pensioners were being joined by print workers at a mass Westminster demonstration and lobby of MPs in their campaign for long-term security for pensions . |
| 22 | ‘ To hear you talk , anyone would think you were being sent to prison ! ’ |
| 23 | Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 25 | That 's what a rate reduction meant in real terms and that had to be weighed against the vicious cuts which were being posed in order to achieve it . |
| 26 | They grew slowly in transport , where trams and trolley buses were being replaced by diesel buses , and where the British Transport Commission 's railway electrification proposals were slow to mature . |
| 27 | Finally , in 1980 a senior judge was appointed to conduct a continuous independent check to ensure that interceptions were being conducted in accordance with the established procedures , with a duty to report to the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | A typical example occurred in a case when the Employment Appeal Tribunal overturned an industrial tribunal 's decision that it was not practicable to consult where 33 redundancies were required urgently , at a time when take-over negotiations were being conducted in secret . |
| 29 | Which animals were being hunted for food , and which were domesticated can be gleaned from the study of animal bones , and with evidence from plant and shellfish remains , there may he clues to what people ate . |
| 30 | Two hours later we were being whisked by téléphérique out into the afternoon sunshine , and watched the other skiers disappear . |