Example sentences of "was being [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal was being completed as we went to press , subject to approval by the bankruptcy courts . |
| 2 | so , every now and again it was sort of , it would sort of flash and say the server was being accessed and sort of brrp it was gone . |
| 3 | He knew he was being manipulated but , he asked himself , what was the alternative ? |
| 4 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 5 | While the tank was being prepared and the water standing , six large pieces of bogwood were being soaked in a dustbin to allow the tannic acid to leach out of the wood to a limited extent , as I intended that the wood would still leach out the acid and brown coloration into the aquarium water providing the fish with darkened water to swim around in . |
| 6 | A budget was being prepared and it was hoped that a weekend inclusive of all meals would cost in the region of £425 per couple , subject to cost finalisation and price movement in the interim . |
| 7 | A clear budget was being prepared as required . |
| 8 | A ratio significantly larger than one would imply that an excess amount of neutrons was being detected when the cells were being operated , and hence be evidence for fusion taking place . |
| 9 | Peter Bergg , claimed the valuation process was being rushed and said estimates had already been challenged by the Inland Revenue . |
| 10 | It was announced on Feb. 14 that the Soviet ambassador in Reykjavík , Igor Krasavin , was being recalled until " suitable explanations " were given by Iceland regarding the Jan. 31 decision to establish diplomatic relations with Lithuania as an independent republic . |
| 11 | My life was being timed but I was not contributing . |
| 12 | She was being strangled and I pulled him off . |
| 13 | They actually did send teams of people erm , nuclear scientists to Chernobyl to try and get just how much damage was being caused and going on being caused , but there was , I think you probably do n't remember because it went right by |
| 14 | The Long and the Short of it was Selwyn 's misery was being caused because he could n't get anywhere near any of the other horses . |
| 15 | They confirmed that the death was being treated as suspicious but would not give the woman 's identity or say how she died . |
| 16 | Yesterday , police confirmed that , in addition to three fires they were already treating as arson , a fourth fire at a holiday home in Pennal , Meirionnydd , was being treated as suspicious . |
| 17 | The house , a holiday home owned by a Wolverhampton family , had been almost completely destroyed and the fire was being treated as suspicious , the spokesman added . |
| 18 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 19 | The pale sun of early morning was being obliterated and would soon be entirely overcast . |
| 20 | By the time of Edward I the major part of the Forest revenues was being raised and accounted for by the sheriffs . |
| 21 | Mr Hunt said Diaz lost control when he felt he was being insulted and goaded by the other group of people . |
| 22 | Just last summer he was visiting Fort Perbrook , in Portsmouth , built in Napoleonic times , where an excellent youth-training scheme was being run and he was to address a seminar . |
| 23 | Nothing is known about the location and extent of the associated estate ; it could have been connected with stone-quarrying around Bath , which was being extracted and used for tombstones at Colchester before the Boudiccan revolt . |
| 24 | After both incidents , Clasper had made it known , throughout the plant , that the young shop steward was being victimised and harassed by the foreman while on legitimate union business . |
| 25 | As Kylie 's business empire was already planning for the 1990s — estimates of its overall earnings are now a staggering £4.5 million a month — virtually every music executive in the world was casting an envious eye at what was being acknowledged as one of the best business operations pop had ever seen . |
| 26 | Mr Le Pen said his 17-member party was being persecuted and unjustly accused of racism and fascism . |
| 27 | She was being persecuted and it was part of a carefully laid plan . |
| 28 | The offender held his pistol to the head of a customer who was being served and demanded that the assistants filled two bags with cash ; when one of them hesitated he pulled back the breech of the gun and threatened to shoot the customer . |
| 29 | Signe was being reserved and held my arm tightly all the time , as though she was frightened of Harvey . |
| 30 | Conversely , when a war was being concluded and there was a prospect of reductions in the size of the army , many officers of the younger regiments attempted to avoid reduction to half-pay by trying their interest with a politician , but the practice of transferring to a new regiment to accelerate promotion , and then regaining a place in an old one while retaining the rank already gained , demanded very good political connections . |