Example sentences of "was [being] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The database for the catering and hospitality industry was being completed during May and should be published in late June . |
| 2 | Within minutes , the Austrian goalkeeper , Franz Wohlfahrt , was being pelted with missiles , including 5ft iron bars torn from the perimeter fence , one of which appeared to hit him on the back . |
| 3 | Treatment was geared to boosting John 's immune system which was being battered by various systemic fungi and intestinal parasites . |
| 4 | But she was being battered by so many conflicting emotions that her brain felt numb . |
| 5 | Brophy said that he was being questioned about leaks , and that rumours and false information were circulating . |
| 6 | The evening newspapers , however , noted that a suspect was being questioned about the current crime , so there was no further speculation about possible links between the various attacks . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 8 | Police chief Calvin Ross said a person was being questioned about the killing of Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand , the eighth foreign tourist and the fourth German killed in Florida in the past year . |
| 9 | He was being questioned about Glasgow 's declining health standards by worried councillors . |
| 10 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 11 | A 23-year-old man was being questioned at Brixton police station . |
| 12 | A Greater Manchester police spokesman said the man was being questioned at an unnamed police station about firearms offences . |
| 13 | He was being questioned at a police station in Bradford where the investigation is based . |
| 14 | He was being questioned at a police station in Bradford where the investigation , which is being headed by Detective Superintendent Trevor Wilkinson , is based . |
| 15 | A 31-year-old man was being questioned in Bristol yesterday . |
| 16 | THE 12-year-old boy who was being questioned in connection with the murder of two-year-old James Bulger was released from custody and eliminated from police inquiries last night . |
| 17 | Last night , as Lesley fought for her life in the intensive care unit at the Royal Liverpool hospital , a 28-year-old man was being questioned by police . |
| 18 | A MAN was being questioned by police last night after a pregnant woman was stabbed to death in her home . |
| 19 | The unemployed 21-year-old from Sydenham , London , was being questioned by detectives at Kennington . |
| 20 | Last night a 21-year-old woman was being questioned by police . |
| 21 | A MOTHER was being questioned by murder squad detectives last night after the bodies of her two young children were found at their home . |
| 22 | A MAN was being questioned by gardai today in connection with a drugs haul in Co Cork . |
| 23 | The RUC today confirmed that a man was being questioned by detectives . |
| 24 | A man who was being questioned by police following the death of a footballer , has now been released on bail . |
| 25 | Another youth was being questioned by police last night . |
| 26 | A 48-YEAR-OLD man was being questioned by West Yorkshire detectives yesterday in connection with the death of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in 1975 . |
| 27 | A 48-YEAR-OLD man was being questioned by West Yorkshire detectives yesterday in connection with the death of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in 1975 . |
| 28 | Hours later , the child 's mother was being questioned after being arrested near Heathrow Airport . |
| 29 | Suddenly the gun was being pointed at Richard . |
| 30 | I could n't put a name on her treatment of me , no word existed for what she was trying to do , but I knew I was being manipulated under the guise of deference and consideration . |