Example sentences of "[noun] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Energy in the brain comes from burning glucose , so if we could find out if , where and when more glucose was being used in the minutes after training , we would have a clue as to which areas of the brain were relevant to the memory storage process . |
| 2 | By November 1965 , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association was being launched in London to the full glare of press publicity by James Dance , MP for Bromsgrove , by then another leading figure in the campaign . |
| 3 | Rome confirmed that aid was being considered to one company — Vifas in Viggiano . |
| 4 | In 1839 the government set up an inspectorate to further central supervision of the way the growing state aid was being spent . |
| 5 | The UK government announced on Dec. 1 that a further £1,200,000 in aid was being provided for reconstruction work , making a total of £4,200,000 . |
| 6 | He said the company would decide around the middle of the year whether to go ahead with a major re-engineering of the advanced turboprop aircraft and revealed that launch aid was being sought from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | He immediately satisfied himself that first aid was being rendered . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the housing stock was being changed . |
| 9 | This term is used to cover both private sector building for owner-occupation and ( for a period in the late 1930s ) for rent , and the non-slum clearance council house building of the 1920s , i.e. further stock was being added to that which already existed . |
| 10 | And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had . |
| 11 | Although all sides denied that a deal was being done on Germany , there was no mistaking the willingness of the French and West Germans to accommodate each other 's political needs . |
| 12 | The picture was sold by the Earl of Rosebery at Sotheby 's London in July 1992 to New York dealer Otto Naumann and his partner Milwaukee chemical magnate Alfred Bader ( himself a noted collector of Rembrandt school paintings ) for £3.8 million ( $6 million ) and according to Naumann , ‘ forty-eight hours after the purchase , a deal was being hammered out ’ with the Dutch museums . |
| 13 | The deal was being completed as we went to press , subject to approval by the bankruptcy courts . |
| 14 | While the deal was being negotiated in 1989 one of the Guglielmi family 's daughters was kidnapped and ransomed for $4 million . |
| 15 | The only possible risk is that one or both might change while the deal was being made . |
| 16 | The deal was being financed by Saudi oil shipments , and the cash shortfall had resulted from weak oil prices . |
| 17 | Things were very simple and this list made that precise point very well but of course this journalist was being somewhat disingenuous as well as cynical . |
| 18 | Towards the end of the Labour Government the entire experiment was being reviewed ; some ministers and civil servants had found the experience troublesome . |
| 19 | It seemed the present experiment was being abandoned as ineffective . |
| 20 | She did notice that the nice little woman had gently squeezed her hand when Dr Neil was being at his most dictatorial over men 's right to beat their wives . |
| 21 | Worse , Dr Neil was being so kind , when reason told her that no one would blame him if he turned her away for what she had done . |
| 22 | Of course Cathy Carne was being difficult , already there had been an outburst over something he had said . |
| 23 | Bull sources nevertheless told Reuter some kind of partnership was being sought for Zenith.Bull is included on the list of state-controlled companies France wants to privatise . |
| 24 | During his visit the Americans offered to supply Britain with 60 of their Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles to reinforce the nuclear deterrent while the V Force was being built up with Vulcans and Victors . |
| 25 | The labour force was being restructured : between 1920 and 1938 the coal industry lost 400,000 of its insured workforce ; cotton 230,000 ; iron and steel 185,000 ; and shipbuilding 150,000 . |
| 26 | Long before the actual birth of PEE in August 1942 , the concept of the target finding/marking force was being well received by the hard-pressed bomber crews but , oddly enough not by the staff at Bomber Command . |
| 27 | The workforce in many work units was being trimmed in order to improve efficiency and save money . |
| 28 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the shooting was being treated as murder . |
| 29 | Mr Wakil told a news conference that the President was being held in Kabul with ‘ those who tried to help him escape ’ . |
| 30 | And Truman felt that his authority as president was being directly challenged and he had no alternative but to sack MacArthur . |