Example sentences of "[was/were] being [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys as young as seven or eight were being employed underground around Newcastle by 1800 . |
| 2 | Some claim that the sand-eels were being chased upwards by predators such as bigger fish , and that they no longer come to the surface because there are n't any big fish left to chase them . |
| 3 | By the middle of the century chamber cantatas were being written all over Italy ; the composers were as numerous as the madrigalists of the previous century . |
| 4 | Moreover , Russia was now out of the war and German divisions were being moved rapidly by train from the east to the Western Front . |
| 5 | Prayers were being said today at William Stockton Primary School in Ellesmere Port where Lee was a well-loved pupil . |
| 6 | Humphrey Nwosu , chairman of the National Electoral Commission , announced on March 18 that elections to the National Assembly were being brought forward from Nov. 7 and would take place on July 4 . |
| 7 | He said security cameras in town centres an idea recently proposed in Darlington were being used increasingly in Britain , and the success seen after their introduction at football grounds was being repeated in high streets . |
| 8 | Chickens were being counted even before Wednesday 's 3-0 victory over Northern Ireland , and the inventory was completed when Jack Charlton received congratulatory telegrams from the Taoiseach , Charles Haughey , and other luminaries including Liam Brady , who will miss the trip to Italy after falling out with Charlton last month and announcing his retirement from international football . |
| 9 | In the institutions themselves the position was that the degree proposals were being put together by people in different discipline-based departments , and the development of departments of business studies or business and management studies came later — ; |
| 10 | It was true that the happy-go-lucky dockers , working for a few pennies every time a ship came in , were being watched carefully by Captain Robins on the bridge , but it all seemed rather haphazard , as though I would be lucky if I ever found all my trunks . |
| 11 | A FOURTH man was being questioned today by police investigating gun-running for loyalist terror groups . |
| 12 | The inspector contended that the quarry was being operated dangerously in terms of rock falls from the quarry face . |
| 13 | As she talked at her home in St Albans , Herts , of her ‘ very special daughter ’ the full horrifying details of how Elizabeth and her best friend Julie Godwin , also 30 , of Spratton , Northants , were brutally raped then murdered was being pieced together in South Africa . |
| 14 | Vaulting was being developed all over Europe by the later eleventh century , but in Italy the wooden roof and/or the domical covering were the usual method . |
| 15 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |
| 16 | He had been moving his body slightly as he came into the shot , and the club head was being thrown slightly off line . |
| 17 | The big bay three quarterbred was being driven hard into Artemis 's lightly framed thoroughbred , and Artemis could feel the distress signals through her hands and seat as the horse shortened its stride in a desperate attempt to find a way out . |
| 18 | The 700,000-strong majority Russian population in the Dnestr valley planned to reinforce its September unilateral secession declaration by holding elections on Nov. 25 to a " Transdnestr Republic " Supreme Soviet , but tensions came to a head on Nov. 2 following rumours that polling was being brought forward to Nov. 4 . |
| 19 | Die Entführung was being performed all over Austria and Germany , and , according to Leopold , the Berlin papers were advertising the new quartets , saying that Mozart 's name alone was sufficient to recommend them to the public : no other guarantee of quality was needed . |
| 20 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 21 | The debate within the EC over trans-frontier movement of waste [ see ED 61 ] has been fuelled by the French government , which has banned with immediate effect the import of all domestic waste after discovering that potentially harmful hospital waste from Germany was being imported illegally into France . |
| 22 | MERSEYSIDE 'S case for Euro-cash was being hammered home in Brussels today . |
| 23 | Neither of them appeared to represent any particular party , and the election was being fought entirely on personalities . |
| 24 | I was being taken somewhere by car and a stop had been made at Kelvin 's petrol pumps opposite . |
| 25 | My first weekend at Highlander coincided with a residential cultural workshop which was being held there with representatives from community groups from Mississippi , Tennessee , West Virginia , Virginia , Alabama and North Carolina . |
| 26 | By the end of 1943 one such scarce commodity , rubber , was being produced synthetically in quantities one third greater than those used before the war . |