Example sentences of "was [being] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tension was reported also in the medical and telecommunications sectors , where strike action was being threatened to back demands for better conditions . |
| 2 | On June 28 it was announced that Carlo Ripa De Meana , EC Commissioner responsible for the environment , nuclear safety and civil protection , was being recalled to Italy to serve as Environment Minister in the government of Giuliano Amato [ see p. 38978 ] . |
| 3 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 4 | At much the same time , George Cowley was being treated to a very fine Malt whisky by Peter Hogan , in Hogan 's elegantly furnished office , in the heart of Whitehall . |
| 5 | A task force of experts had been established to advise other countries in anti-drug strategies and the number of drug liaison officers working from UK embassies was being increased to 20 . |
| 6 | But , in addition , there arose the possibility of some common agreement with industry over the fact that the economy was being run to the advantage of the City as opposed to industry . |
| 7 | Mr Paz Zamora said Europe was being invited to the summit because it had ‘ demonstrated a marked interest in dealing with the problem alongside other countries ’ . |
| 8 | The Paris to Rouen railway was being extended to Le Havre , and the line cut straight through Dr Flaubert 's land ; part of it was to be compulsorily purchased . |
| 9 | He told him he was very excited because he was being posted to Liverpool 8 — Toxteth — and McCartney asked him why . |
| 10 | David Hooker , Aberdeen 's managing director , said yesterday that a final offer was being posted to Brabant 's shareholders , with a circular seeking approval for it from his own shareholders . |
| 11 | Now the meaning of that picture was being revealed to him . |
| 12 | Having used Microsoft Works 2 contentedly ever since it came out , I was most interested ti hear that the package was being upgraded to version 3 . |
| 13 | In another balcony , opposite where he sat , a grand figure in the golden robes of the Archimage was being conducted to his seat , accompanied by ten faceless men in black cloaks . |
| 14 | In short , the origin of ‘ civilisation ’ might well be traced to man 's dawning understanding that the ‘ joie de vivre ’ experienced in childhood was being lost to the individual as his life went on . |
| 15 | It suffered increasingly from water run-off , leading to a growing soil erosion problem : around 300-400 million tonnes of soil was being lost to erosion every year . |
| 16 | Some more far-sighted members feared that the restrictive practices of the ISE meant that business was being lost to overseas exchanges , and changes were required . |
| 17 | Bakut announced that the Senegalese ECOMOG contingent was being withdrawn to Monrovia , the Liberian capital . |
| 18 | We may also note that , when this message was sent to MACMIS in the afternoon of 15 May , AFHQ was under the impression that 5 Corps had already taken surrender of the 200,000 Croats , which was why Tito was being asked to " instruct his commander to accept them " . |
| 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 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 21 | While the Centre was not actually named , it was clear that it was Buklod that was being referred to . |
| 22 | His choice of vegetables was being dictated to him over a portable telephone . |
| 23 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 24 | They have been fully satisfied that the site was being operated to the highest standards . |
| 25 | Two days later , as he was being moved to a new jail , he was himself shot in full view of millions of TV viewers by a small-time gambler , Jack ruby . |
| 26 | This was started next to the Blind Beggar pub in 1808 , and by 1809 it was being leased to a man called John Hoffman . |
| 27 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 28 | They say the decision to step up overt pressure came quickly after the Vatican learned from Italian Foreign Ministry officials that Mr Gorbachev 's visit was being curtailed to less than three full days . |
| 29 | The next thing I remember was being jerked to a stop outside the house and Oliver saying in a rather odd voice , ‘ A propos de bottes , how was the lune de miel ? ’ |
| 30 | But their hired minibus , driven by Gary , was involved in a horrific crash with a Vauxhall Cavalier one mile west of Bowes on a stretch of the A66 which was being converted to dual carriageway . |