Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] was be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early sixteenth century the prices of essential goods rose more sharply than those of inessentials , and at the same time wage differentials increased again , so it is likely that by this date population was rising again , and that as real wages declined a higher proportion of them was being spent on essential goods and less on luxuries . |
| 2 | He reports that the harvest had been very abundant but mentions nothing but potatoes , the surplus of which was being sent to the south , the earlies at £5 per ton which after deducting freight etc. leaves the farmer about £4–5–0 ; rocks were £4 per ton . |
| 3 | Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation ( some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot 's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is ‘ asiatic ’ , outside the confines of Europe . |
| 4 | When Coleman looked into this , DIA assets in Lebanon reported that much of it was being printed there , with large numbers of genuine $1 bills being bleached to provide the right paper for phony $100 bills . |
| 5 | By craning his neck he found that the edge of it was being gripped firmly by the Luggage 's lid . |
| 6 | A Western consultancy attempting to track down the money lost in this way said that much of it was being deposited in foreign banks . |
| 7 | Actually the bulk of it was being done in her father 's absence by his accountant , but still there was enough left for Rory occasionally to feel swamped . |
| 8 | It was probably in 1937 that he and Tolkien had a conversation about their distaste for much of what was being published at that time . |
| 9 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 10 | Regardless of the experience of your senior nurse momentary aberrations do occur , particularly under pressure , and he or she may simply not have realised the implications of what was being asked . |
| 11 | She clearly found it hard to sort out the implications of what was being suggested . |
| 12 | Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head . |
| 13 | Analysis has been brought forward to show that what was taken as proof of a lack of logical processes amongst ‘ primitive ’ peoples was often simply misunderstanding by ill-informed European commentators of the meaning of what was being said and done . |
| 14 | Until then I 'd never had any intimation of what was being done nowadays in the field of biblical research , or of the attacks being launched by competent historians . |
| 15 | The amount of syntactic information which is retained also depends on relations between syntactic and semantic form and pragmatic aspects of what was being communicated . |
| 16 | Erm chairman , the erm District Council officer who 's been erm delegated to draw up the scheme for for the parish coun for , for the town did meet erm here , one morning some weeks ago , with myself and Steve , the clerk , and showed us some er a sketch of what was being proposed . |
| 17 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 18 | Governors of individual schools needed to be at the same level of understanding and acceptance of what was being planned . |
| 19 | He was quoted as saying that without more being known about assessment in history it was difficult to register the true significance of what was being proposed . |
| 20 | It meant , through IT , that quickly improved drafts could provide alternative ways to arrive at a near-excellent final version of what was being said . |
| 21 | The early meetings of the Board were preoccupied with the details of visits , attention to the content of courses — including , for example , law , office organization and communication studies — and the balance of what was being proposed . |
| 22 | I remember him saying it was a shame that he had to punish us both when only one of us was being naughty . |
| 23 | Rumours spread amongst the Serbs that a massive punitive expedition against them was being prepared . |
| 24 | I said more like someone was being bloody chased . |
| 25 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 26 | And while to a certain extent the chairman was right that the aesthetic of art was being eroded , nonetheless a whole infrastructure of artists and those who dealt with them was being maintained and subsidized , thus providing creative freedom . |
| 27 | But there is a sense in which he complied with what was being asked of him . |
| 28 | Everybody else round me was being sick . |
| 29 | She imagined the English departments of various American universities converted into huge breakers ' yards in which was being dismantled the edifice of world literature … |
| 30 | He felt the warmth of it flowing up his arm like an injection ; it was as if everything in her was being transmitted through their palms . |