Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun] were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 21 the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation confirmed that 8,000,000 litres of petroleum products were being imported daily . |
| 2 | The most interesting of these cases is Short v. Treasury Commissioners where the whole of the shares of Short Bros. were being acquired by the Treasury under a Defence Regulation which provided for payment of their value ‘ as between a willing buyer and a willing seller . ’ |
| 3 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 4 | Complaint was made in 1383 that persons accused of Forest offences were being imprisoned without indictment in due legal form , and detained by the Forest officers until they paid fines for their release . |
| 5 | The country 's rulers were , after all , running scared : the American colonies had declared their independence in 1776 in dangerously democratic terms ; the writings of Tom Paine were being disseminated far and wide ; and , most threatening of all , there was every chance that the Jacobin ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 might take firm root in English soil . |
| 6 | On another Parliamentary occasion , when it was alleged that cases of motor banditry were being grossly exaggerated in the press , reference was made to ‘ such trivial acts as the pulling down of shutters of an empty kiosk and stealing cigarettes and sweets ’ which were contrasted with what was called ‘ real crime ’ . |
| 7 | Foaming bamboos of rice wine were being copiously consumed by every level of society , and the two litters were furiously bounced up and down along their journey . |
| 8 | Additional ancillary services such as data interpretation , preparation of customised products , and materials handling for logging and treatment of borehole core were being sought as a spin-off from regular project work . |
| 9 | Although the TUC also , and somewhat contradictorily , endorsed a twelve-month gap in pay settlement , the banks of wage agreements were being burst again . |
| 10 | On the same day it was reported that efforts to impose the state of emergency regulations were being hampered by mass civil disobedience , with demonstrations and road blocks slowing the movement of the newly arrived military units from airfields at Yevlakh and Gendzhe ( Azerbaijan 's second largest city , formerly Kirovabad ; it had been given back its pre-Soviet name on Dec. 30 ) . |
| 11 | Huge jugs of fruit juice were being pressed on guests , rather than booze . |
| 12 | ANGRY crowds gathered outside a police station in Bootle on Merseyside last night where protesters believed the three youths arrested in connection with the murder of James Bulger were being questioned . |
| 13 | Even before the defeat of Japan , the fears of Dexter White were being confirmed as the most ardent American multilateralists lost ground , both to their more cautious and nationalistic supporters and still more so to those who were determined to protect home markets and reduce taxes . |