Example sentences of "were [being] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be that as it may , the work on the buildings , which it has been claimed were being constructed for a newly-constituted civitas capital , was at some time in the later second century violently interrupted and , with one exception , not resumed until the Severan period . |
| 2 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 3 | reported that quotations were being sought for the 1993 ‘ Embalmer ’ magazines . |
| 4 | Police officers opened boxes and bags in the attics where furnishings were being stored for a new extension , and they went through the rest of the house just as painstakingly . |
| 5 | A plans were being made for a meeting of Allied socialists in February to endorse Labour 's War Aims . |
| 6 | What was new after 1933 in respect of these films was that they were being made for a nation that was experiencing a new politicization and by a Hollywood that was equally trying to redefine its role within the culture . |
| 7 | On the stand of Rolls-Royce and Bentley , however , no excuses were being made for the reawakening of one of Britain 's best known and loved marques from 40 years of savage badge engineering . |
| 8 | Here in May 1942 — before the raid on Dieppe that August — plans were being made for the landings in North Africa that would put an American Task Force ashore on the Atlantic coast near Casablanca , a second force ashore at Oran in the Mediterranean , and a third further east at Algiers . |
| 9 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |
| 10 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 11 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 12 | By the beginning of 1986 , when alternative facilities were being planned for the combined residual population of both St Wulstan 's and Powick , it had been recognized that |
| 13 | The guardian ad litem prepared a report in which she recommended that the children live with their father and , in the body of the report , stated that for the local authority to carry out an assessment of the father at the same time as the children were being prepared for a long-term placement did not ‘ enable an open and honest working relationship . ’ |
| 14 | Two small tank locomotives were being prepared for the weekend 's work amidst a scene of almost dereliction . |
| 15 | What harm would come if she were being fooled for a change ? |
| 16 | In most homes in the area , prayers were being said for the deliverance of a husband , father , son or brother , and several families had more than one man involved . |
| 17 | By the rime Ho had been released by the Chinese in September 1943 the US was beginning to make its major contribution to the war against Japan and various strategies were being considered for a drive on Canton or Hanoi . |
| 18 | Dell Computer Corp international president Andrew Harris resigned and the company promoted Joel Kocher to president of all sales , marketing and service operations worldwide ; he had been president of Dell USA ; Dell said that both men were being considered for the post and after Kocher got the job , a disappointed Harris decided to resign . |
| 19 | Several bypasses were being considered for the road , he added . |
| 20 | You should therefore make as much effort as you would if you were being interviewed for a particular job . |
| 21 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 22 | In many ports , joint meetings of shipowners and men were being held for the discussion of grievances . |
| 23 | Others speculated that the foundations were being laid for a pan-European unity which might stretch from the Urals to the Atlantic . |
| 24 | Within months royal licences were being issued for the alienation of property to the church despite the statute . |
| 25 | The drinking public was now aware they were being taken for a ride by the brewing barons . |
| 26 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 27 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 28 | In May , following these forays , Hitler had his first top-level meeting to discuss the western defences with the Todt Organisation , and plans were begun for the so-called Atlantic Wall , although there already existed a series of defended ports and the original defence arrangements set up when fleets of craft were being assembled for an invasion of England . |
| 29 | The winds that were being reported for the hurricane did not include the ground speed that the storm was tracking . |