Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun pl] were be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 11th February , in the second week of the new session of Parliament , Tite asked Hall what steps were being taken about new Government Offices . |
| 2 | From the second half of the 1960s the CNAA was increasingly involved in the award of degrees for students on courses which it had approved , in a sector of education whose boundaries were being drawn from elsewhere . |
| 3 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 4 | A man whose parents were being held captive had been forced to drive into a border checkpoint in a van containing the bomb , which had failed to explode . |
| 5 | and it was because the generation whose sons were being sent to be slaughtered |
| 6 | By this time their personalities were being deliberately shaped by their parents . |