Example sentences of "[was/were] being [vb pp] and [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinn Fein complained that their election workers were being harassed and delayed for up to half an hour at checkpoints . |
| 2 | In general , the measures were to attempt to create an environment for cycling which was safe , direct , comfortable and in which cyclists felt that they were being encouraged and provided for . |
| 3 | Meanwhile in Ireland , at that time , women were being arrested and harassed for reading Spare Rib and the war in the North was raging on with ever-increasing numbers of Republican women being imprisoned without trial . |
| 4 | By the time of Edward I the major part of the Forest revenues was being raised and accounted for by the sheriffs . |
| 5 | 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 . |