Example sentences of "were [being] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 2 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 3 | She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross . |
| 4 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 5 | Christopher Picton , 34 , of Avon Way , Colchester , Essex , became trapped as the reels , weighing two and a half tons , were being loaded on to a lorry . |
| 6 | Two UN doctors who got into the area recently reported that amputations were being carried out with a carpenter 's saw and no anaesthetic or antibiotics . |