Example sentences of "was [being] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No 4468 Mallard was being prepared for a return to steam for the 50th anniversary of its 1938 world record speed run . |
| 2 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 3 | Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’ |
| 4 | The Keraing , however , had put the wheels in motion , and while Sinar Surya was being prepared for the sea , and the pirates were still arguing about where she might go , and with whom , Lorne and I spent the following weeks suppressing our impatience by exploring our surroundings . |
| 5 | We submitted a detailed response to the NRA 's proposed scheme of water quality improvement targets which was being prepared for the Secretary of State 's approval . |
| 6 | A report was being prepared for the June 1992 European Council summit in Lisbon on the institutional changes which would be needed if the EC were to expand its membership significantly . |
| 7 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 8 | A file was being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 9 | Police said yesterday a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 10 | Police confirmed yesterday a man has been arrested in connection with the killing and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 11 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 12 | Comedian Les Dawson ( above ) is recovering at home after being discharged from hospital in Preston where he was being treated for a blood infection after a prostate operation . |
| 13 | Lexie McConnell was being treated for an eye complaint . |
| 14 | Lexie McConnell was being treated for an eye compalint but the steroids she took hampered her bodies natural defences . |
| 15 | The reaction shown in Scheme 2 was first observed when a sample of , in an ampoule under nitrogen , was being tested for a pinhole using a Tesla discharge ; the surface of the sample turned from black to brown . |
| 16 | The conference was being arranged for the Founders and regional activists to meet the newly arriving senior staff . |
| 17 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 18 | It was like some ghoulish rerun of Sunday afternoon , as if the same sequence in a film was being shot for a second time under a different director . |
| 19 | Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority . |
| 20 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |
| 21 | Television cameras all over the place recorded everything both for news items that evening and for the two-hour Support Canadian Racing programme which posters everywhere announced was being made for a gala showing coast to coast after the triple had been completed in Vancouver . |
| 22 | The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself . |
| 23 | Yes , as if I was being assessed for a place , a level , a grading here . |
| 24 | Mr Leslie Draper , her solicitor , said : ‘ She was appalled at the hardship following atrocities in Northern Ireland and was not convinced enough was being done for the people left behind . |
| 25 | We were told that this money was being collected for the families and we gave this money through the official trade union for that purpose . |
| 26 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 27 | She dies in 1963 , years before the critically acclaimed work was being adapted for the silver screen . |
| 28 | Mr Preece said the Four Seasons , in Saltburn , was a top quality home which has boosted interest in the sale but he would not discuss how much was being offered for the different homes . |
| 29 | The dominant message that was being provided for the public was that the law reform being proposed was essentially ‘ permissive ’ in character . |
| 30 | Three days later Haslam was being interviewed for a job at ICI and he was offered the chance to become a technical services engineer in the Nobel Division , an offer he snapped up immediately . |