Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [being] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hopes and expectations of the Popular Front experiences of France and Spain in 1936 were slowly being transformed into the despair and disillusionment of the non-interventionist policies of France and Great Britain in 1937 . |
| 2 | Petty-bourgeois and peasant elements were constantly being drawn into the proletariat , bringing with them innumerable illusions . |
| 3 | Professor Glennerster said that it was clear that the benefits won by GP fund holders were swiftly being transferred to the patients of other GPs , which is what we said would happen . |
| 4 | The foundations were thus being laid for the massive expansion of government involvement in the environmental sciences in the later decades of the century . |
| 5 | She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows . |
| 6 | But the 2-1 favourite was under pressure almost from the outset and betting slips were already being crumpled before the second circuit . |
| 7 | Doubts of the sincerity of her much-advertised desire for reform were already being voiced in the early years of her reign . |
| 8 | The troops of the former USSR Interior Ministry were already being withdrawn from the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorny Karabakh in Azerbaijan [ see also p. 38582 ] . |
| 9 | Unknown to her , requests were already being made for a transfer . |
| 10 | These last questions were already being raised in the heyday of Liberal Theology itself , as we shall find later in this chapter , and with devastating effect . |
| 11 | They worked out that the dots and dashes of the Morse code ( which were already being used in the telegraph system ) could be used by flashing lights at night and waving flags or arms during the day . |
| 12 | Press calls to the Middlesbrough office of Sure Style were yesterday being diverted to the company 's HQ in Bury , Lancashire . |
| 13 | Henry 's friends were yesterday being interviewed about the use of drugs at the party , held at the three-storey house he shared with 11 others . |
| 14 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 15 | Two years later , in 1923 , houses were still being completed under the Addison Scheme , under contracts concluded before the cutback . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact that Michael Banks had been bigger than he was , the dead man 's clothes were still being examined by the police . |
| 17 | Jealous eyes were still being cast on the SAS , and various staff departments were determined to bring its activities under far stricter control . |
| 18 | Curiously , seals with these signs were still being made at the end of the Middle Minoan , around 1600 BC , and were entombed in buildings destroyed in 1470 BC , well after the appearance and general adoption of both Linear A and Linear B scripts . |
| 19 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 20 | Groups were still being run by a very small section office . |
| 21 | Nearly 500 people arrested after the rebel attacks were still being held at the time of the AI visit . |
| 22 | On Nov. 13 the Interior Minister , Gen. Sin Song , revealed that about 1,000 political prisoners were still being held by the Phnom Penh regime . |
| 23 | He cited 2,700 FIS supporters dismissed from their jobs since June and said that FIS political prisoners were still being held in a number of towns . |
| 24 | Toon had been quoted in July as saying that he had found no evidence to substantiate claims that US POWs were still being held in the former Soviet Union [ see p. 39031 ] . |
| 25 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 26 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 27 | Whitebred Shorthorn and White Galloway bulls were introduced in the 1920s and 1930s to improve the beef quality of some of the old dairy herds and , although some were still being milked in the 1950s , a positive decision was made in the 1960s to concentrate on high-quality beef production . |
| 28 | On the other side of the river opposite the outflow of the Kelvin , lamps were also being lit in the Pointhouse Inn , and the choppy river waters reflected the lights , struggling to shine in the damp , smoky air . |
| 29 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 30 | In the specific cases discussed — especially the rapidly changing colleges of education and new subject areas — the Council 's machinery , standards and purposes were often being put to the test , giving rise to frustration and controversy . |