Example sentences of "were [adv] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hopes and expectations of the Popular Front experiences of France and Spain in 1936 were slowly being transformed into the despair and disillusionment of the non-interventionist policies of France and Great Britain in 1937 . |
| 2 | Patients with active disease were mostly being treated with oral corticosteroids and sulphasalazine , whereas those in remission were receiving sulphasalazine alone . |
| 3 | Now , as well as the fortifications , I think one wants to erm very much keep in mind that the citizens of St Aldate 's were constantly being asked for money . |
| 4 | If units of good were constantly being cancelled by units of evil , ultimately mankind could be reverted to any point in time past , even to as far back as the beginning of life . |
| 5 | Petty-bourgeois and peasant elements were constantly being drawn into the proletariat , bringing with them innumerable illusions . |
| 6 | Professor Glennerster said that it was clear that the benefits won by GP fund holders were swiftly being transferred to the patients of other GPs , which is what we said would happen . |
| 7 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 8 | His talents were obviously being wasted in business . |
| 9 | Even so , they were generally being sustained at home at a cost below that of institutional care . |
| 10 | Freed from duty in Croatia by the peace of January 1992 , federal troops were soon being redeployed in Bosnia as part of the Serb forces there , under General Radko Mladic . |
| 11 | Villages and refugee camps were thus being developed into ‘ liberated ’ or ‘ independent ’ areas , if not militarily , then at least psychologically , politically and infrastructurally . |
| 12 | The foundations were thus being laid for the massive expansion of government involvement in the environmental sciences in the later decades of the century . |
| 13 | She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows . |
| 14 | Planning permission was sought and granted at breakneck speed and the foundations were already being excavated for twenty-four executive-type four to five bedroom ‘ dwelling units ’ with two garages apiece but no gardens . |
| 15 | But the 2-1 favourite was under pressure almost from the outset and betting slips were already being crumpled before the second circuit . |
| 16 | Doubts of the sincerity of her much-advertised desire for reform were already being voiced in the early years of her reign . |
| 17 | The troops of the former USSR Interior Ministry were already being withdrawn from the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorny Karabakh in Azerbaijan [ see also p. 38582 ] . |
| 18 | Unknown to her , requests were already being made for a transfer . |
| 19 | After all , in the real world , compositors " wages were already being threatened by cheap male labour — that of apprentices and non-union men for instance . |
| 20 | Cameras were already being mounted on cars for action scenes and cameras were mounted on cars again in the 1960s onwards , sometimes even for dialogue scenes ( they could be rerecorded later , if necessary ) . |
| 21 | These last questions were already being raised in the heyday of Liberal Theology itself , as we shall find later in this chapter , and with devastating effect . |
| 22 | The excavation of Upper Palaeolithic burials has shown that they were already being sewn onto clothing in positions which suggest that their role was symbolic as well as decorative . |
| 23 | However , the first working-class terraced houses were already being built on Everton Road , a street that was to be described in 1875 as ‘ a dense thoroughfare of a somewhat shabby and second rate character ’ . |
| 24 | They worked out that the dots and dashes of the Morse code ( which were already being used in the telegraph system ) could be used by flashing lights at night and waving flags or arms during the day . |
| 25 | Of his forty seven recommendations for action at Wymott , thirty five were already being put into effect . |
| 26 | Of course it was not possible to devise a service that would be all things to all people : some of the needs would be inconsistent with others , some were already being addressed in other projects , some were less crucial . |
| 27 | Although other idealistic communities were already being established in America at that period , few who saw the Pantisocratic scheme in its early growth were ever convinced that it could succeed . |
| 28 | ‘ And when we used to live in a hole , nomes were always being squashed by cars . ’ |
| 29 | They played on the concourse , and er were always being shouted at by residents who did n't want them er playing just in front of their places . |
| 30 | Press calls to the Middlesbrough office of Sure Style were yesterday being diverted to the company 's HQ in Bury , Lancashire . |