Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His passionate desire to serve his people was being held back , he felt , by the cautious machinery of old-fashioned church ways . |
| 2 | Collecting all the raw material to create the final page or document is only the beginning of the desktop publishing process and is something that would have to have been done whatever system was being used . |
| 3 | Despite the freebie fiascos , Mr Major still reckoned his pal was being ‘ pilloried ’ . |
| 4 | Thus the farmer on whose land the first find was made discovered his land was being prospected only when he found the prospectors sampling streams on his land . |
| 5 | ‘ We were asking them to play the main role in caring for their children , but they felt their authority was being undermined by the assessments . |
| 6 | They felt their power was being undermined … |
| 7 | He thought his mother was being unreasonable in complaining about it . |
| 8 | At Charles s shoulder , the Sergeant visibly moved , took a pace forward and would have taken over the interview , but Charles felt his authority was being diminished rapidly enough . |
| 9 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 10 | It is startling to read that his father paid him a visit in hospital , though presumably without knowing his son was being treated for gonorrhoea . |
| 11 | The learned physician , as if he knew his name was being mentioned , turned and gave a gap-toothed grin , waving at them to follow a little faster . |
| 12 | And all medical staff at each site knew what data was being collected before the audit started . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought your mother was being discharged today ? ’ |
| 14 | Yet long before Richard 's formal education had even started his future was being discussed . |
| 15 | Periodically Mary Wilson would poke her head round the door to see what progress was being made towards going to bed . |
| 16 | Jezrael wondered whose memory was being replayed inside her mind to guide her through this metal rat-run . |