Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [being] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 2 | Within months royal licences were being issued for the alienation of property to the church despite the statute . |
| 3 | Police officers opened boxes and bags in the attics where furnishings were being stored for a new extension , and they went through the rest of the house just as painstakingly . |
| 4 | In most homes in the area , prayers were being said for the deliverance of a husband , father , son or brother , and several families had more than one man involved . |
| 5 | On the stand of Rolls-Royce and Bentley , however , no excuses were being made for the reawakening of one of Britain 's best known and loved marques from 40 years of savage badge engineering . |
| 6 | reported that quotations were being sought for the 1993 ‘ Embalmer ’ magazines . |
| 7 | A plans were being made for a meeting of Allied socialists in February to endorse Labour 's War Aims . |
| 8 | Here in May 1942 — before the raid on Dieppe that August — plans were being made for the landings in North Africa that would put an American Task Force ashore on the Atlantic coast near Casablanca , a second force ashore at Oran in the Mediterranean , and a third further east at Algiers . |
| 9 | Others speculated that the foundations were being laid for a pan-European unity which might stretch from the Urals to the Atlantic . |
| 10 | By the rime Ho had been released by the Chinese in September 1943 the US was beginning to make its major contribution to the war against Japan and various strategies were being considered for a drive on Canton or Hanoi . |
| 11 | In many ports , joint meetings of shipowners and men were being held for the discussion of grievances . |
| 12 | Dell Computer Corp international president Andrew Harris resigned and the company promoted Joel Kocher to president of all sales , marketing and service operations worldwide ; he had been president of Dell USA ; Dell said that both men were being considered for the post and after Kocher got the job , a disappointed Harris decided to resign . |
| 13 | The guardian ad litem prepared a report in which she recommended that the children live with their father and , in the body of the report , stated that for the local authority to carry out an assessment of the father at the same time as the children were being prepared for a long-term placement did not ‘ enable an open and honest working relationship . ’ |
| 14 | Several bypasses were being considered for the road , he added . |
| 15 | Two small tank locomotives were being prepared for the weekend 's work amidst a scene of almost dereliction . |
| 16 | By the beginning of 1986 , when alternative facilities were being planned for the combined residual population of both St Wulstan 's and Powick , it had been recognized that |