Example sentences of "was be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was been going for two years . |
| 2 | The legal basis was being created for workers to set up their own professional , cultural and leisure-time organizations through which they would become integrated with the rest of society . |
| 3 | No 4468 Mallard was being prepared for a return to steam for the 50th anniversary of its 1938 world record speed run . |
| 4 | The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market . |
| 5 | The third was that when Mrs Thatcher concluded that the way was being prepared for full membership of the EMS , she was able to destroy the shadowing strategy by loudly denying its existence . |
| 6 | That pattern stuck in my head and gradually crystallized it out into a definite form , while the scenario was being prepared for me . |
| 7 | She had started attending classes at the Blind Club , and was being prepared for her further loss of sight . |
| 8 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 9 | Legal sources said an underground cell was being prepared for him on a maximum security row at the federal penitentiary in Marion , Illinois , America 's most chilling jail . |
| 10 | Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’ |
| 11 | Jeanne , the Vitou 's only daughter was being prepared for evacuation , but my newly found knowledge in medicine and sociology was making me over optimistic . |
| 12 | Early in January 1758 , however , Lieutenant Home 's brother , David Home of Wedderburn , complained that the promise had not been kept and that the lieutenant had been ordered to join a fireship at Spithead which was being prepared for foreign service . |
| 13 | The Oval was a good cricket wicket despite the stories that it was being prepared for Laker and Lock . |
| 14 | The Keraing , however , had put the wheels in motion , and while Sinar Surya was being prepared for the sea , and the pirates were still arguing about where she might go , and with whom , Lorne and I spent the following weeks suppressing our impatience by exploring our surroundings . |
| 15 | And this was the prized position that was being prepared for Mike Schaffer . |
| 16 | We were pleased to learn that a revised draft of MPG3 was being prepared for consultation , and we tried to influence its content . |
| 17 | We submitted a detailed response to the NRA 's proposed scheme of water quality improvement targets which was being prepared for the Secretary of State 's approval . |
| 18 | She returned a few minutes later with an explanation that medicine was being prepared for me . |
| 19 | A report was being prepared for the June 1992 European Council summit in Lisbon on the institutional changes which would be needed if the EC were to expand its membership significantly . |
| 20 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 21 | A file was being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 22 | Police said yesterday a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 23 | Police confirmed yesterday a man has been arrested in connection with the killing and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 24 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 25 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 26 | It is startling to read that his father paid him a visit in hospital , though presumably without knowing his son was being treated for gonorrhoea . |
| 27 | Friend Gwen Standen , 35 , was being treated for head injuries and a broken leg after the crash , near Tunbridge Wells , Kent . |
| 28 | Eddie Gilfoyle , 30 , was arrested at a hospital where he was being treated for stress . |
| 29 | The casualties were detained at the Westminster Hospital where the woman was being treated for back injuries and the men for shock . |
| 30 | The pilot was being treated for suspected internal injuries and his passenger for a suspected broken arm and ribs . |