Example sentences of "were already [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Planning permission was sought and granted at breakneck speed and the foundations were already being excavated for twenty-four executive-type four to five bedroom ‘ dwelling units ’ with two garages apiece but no gardens . |
| 3 | But the 2-1 favourite was under pressure almost from the outset and betting slips were already being crumpled before the second circuit . |
| 4 | It allayed doubts about the technique and its freedom from cultural determinants that were already being expressed . |
| 5 | Defects in Scottish housing were already being tackled vigorously by local housing authorities , Scottish Homes , the new town development corporations and housing associations . |
| 6 | Most significantly in Argentina , Brazil and Mexico , where the organised working classes were large and strong , longer-term strategies to forestall the problems posed by labour militancy were already being implemented . |
| 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| 8 | The troops of the former USSR Interior Ministry were already being withdrawn from the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorny Karabakh in Azerbaijan [ see also p. 38582 ] .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 | I guess that plans were already being made when I was born , for a year or so later my Dad left for London . |
| 10 | Unknown to her , requests were already being made for a transfer . |
| 11 | After all , in the real world , compositors " wages were already being threatened by cheap male labour — that of apprentices and non-union men for instance . |
| 12 | The shoddy tower-blocks and monotonous housing estates into which the ex-peasants were already being herded twenty-five years ago were in fact the first stage of systematically transforming life in the country . |
| 13 | Cameras were already being mounted on cars for action scenes and cameras were mounted on cars again in the 1960s onwards , sometimes even for dialogue scenes ( they could be rerecorded later , if necessary ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When the prayers for his soul were already being said , he took another sheet of paper and began to write again . |
| 16 | The excavation of Upper Palaeolithic burials has shown that they were already being sewn onto clothing in positions which suggest that their role was symbolic as well as decorative . |
| 17 | However , the first working-class terraced houses were already being built on Everton Road , a street that was to be described in 1875 as ‘ a dense thoroughfare of a somewhat shabby and second rate character ’ . |
| 18 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 19 | Crops were already being grown and were undoubtedly attracting rats and mice in large numbers . |
| 20 | White nephrite rings were already being distributed , presumably from this source , as far west as Seima near Gorki at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga at a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty . |
| 21 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Of his forty seven recommendations for action at Wymott , thirty five were already being put into effect . |
| 24 | It appeared that lessons were already being learned . |
| 25 | Of course it was not possible to devise a service that would be all things to all people : some of the needs would be inconsistent with others , some were already being addressed in other projects , some were less crucial . |
| 26 | Although other idealistic communities were already being established in America at that period , few who saw the Pantisocratic scheme in its early growth were ever convinced that it could succeed . |
| 27 | Most of these were already being worked on , but three chief officers , together with the director of purchasing and three unit general managers decided to form The X Factor Group . |