Example sentences of "[vb pp] were be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be that as it may , the work on the buildings , which it has been claimed were being constructed for a newly-constituted civitas capital , was at some time in the later second century violently interrupted and , with one exception , not resumed until the Severan period . |
| 2 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 3 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 4 | Andrew Faulds , the Labour MP for Warley East who introduced the Bill , said he was pleased that the objectives he had set were being largely met . |
| 5 | It is understood that the three youths being questioned were being held at separate police stations in Liverpool . |