Example sentences of "were [being] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior Government minister replied that people were being given a stake in society by being allowed to buy their council houses . |
| 2 | Anyone reading this today could well assume that they were being given a description of a military event , but the date was in fact 1950 and I was about to start my secondary education . |
| 3 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 4 | more patients than were being treated a year ago ? |
| 5 | Ideas about the structure of glass date back 50 years or more to when the first diffuse X-ray scattering measurements on the material were being made a by B. E. Warren and others . |
| 6 | The Americans knew they were being led a dance , but the urge to rescue hostages — premised on high emotion and some amount of electoral calculation — drove the policy forward . |
| 7 | A GRE spokesman said all the staff were being offered a transfer to Lytham and added that the firm would do its best to accommodate their wishes if they did n't want to move to Lytham . |
| 8 | Metals was used for barrels but only for ones that were being taken a long way away like wine barrels that were being taken to or from Gascony . |
| 9 | A CLAIM that patients in South Cleveland were being refused a lifeline because of cash cuts was refuted by a senior officer last night . |
| 10 | Within 15 years , 60,000 were being sold a week , and they were exported to more than 60 countries . |