Example sentences of "[was/were] [being] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are told that , having lost an empire , we can have a new role in a European superstate , as if we were being asked to be its leader — which we are not . |
| 2 | Two British men were being questioned after being arrested when the tablets were found on Saturday concealed in holdalls in a Peugeot estate that had arrived in Dover by ferry from Calais . |
| 3 | Two British men were being questioned after being arrested when the tablets were found on Saturday concealed in holdalls in a Peugeot estate that had arrived in Dover by ferry from Calais . |
| 4 | and it was because the generation whose sons were being sent to be slaughtered |
| 5 | Was the regional office conscious in making that , I 'm sorry that was not that pause intentional , was the regional office conscious in making that suggestion that B eight uses were being advocated to be included and therefore the conflict potentially was a policy which was not before it ? |
| 6 | The seals , one 1,000-years-old and the other 300-years-old , were stolen from a car parked in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , in August 1989 as they were being taken to be valued . |
| 7 | The fact that real issues were being talked about was often sufficient to cure the problem . |
| 8 | Hours later , the child 's mother was being questioned after being arrested near Heathrow Airport . |
| 9 | Messam , a machine operator , of Edmonton , north London , was being sentenced after being found guilty yesterday of four charges of rape involving three women , and one of indecent assault on a fourth . |
| 10 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 11 | But I think I knew unconsciously that the supposed crime was twofold : I was being punished for being female and for having grown up . |
| 12 | The £4 ft by 8ft plastic pond was taken from the yard of Overdale Primary School in Eastfield where it was being stored before being sunk into the ground as part of a nature garden . |
| 13 | A major development of the area had taken place , the CNAA was being seen to be ‘ fierce ’ in its approach , and institutions were being obliged to be ‘ thorough ’ . |
| 14 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 15 | Suddenly , she was being accused of being a double agent ! |
| 16 | At one time , it had been rumoured that he was being groomed to be the next Commissioner . |
| 17 | What was being dealt with was the significance of space in relation to social action . |
| 18 | The man was being held after being charged with a drink driving offence at Darlington Magistrates Court . |