Example sentences of "were being [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another at the 15th , a hole where so many second shots were being tossed by the angry wind over the clifftop . |
| 2 | At about the same time , far away in Rome , Christians were being persecuted by the Emperor Nero . |
| 3 | The Wollo Muslims , who were being persecuted by the Shoan army , had attacked Dessie and , though defeated , were still raiding at large . |
| 4 | She told him that she and some others were being escorted by the household guard on an expedition to the country that day . |
| 5 | Last night Mr and Mrs Robinson — described by police as ‘ loving and caring ’ — were being questioned by a team of detectives along with present and former tenants . |
| 6 | Some 150 northern businessmen were being questioned by the police , having come forward to volunteer information about bribes they had paid . |
| 7 | Philip 's misgivings , his hurt over Jim , were being assuaged by the Congress , and the happy atmosphere that was leading up to it . |
| 8 | All this time the bodies found , one after the other , in Mouncy Street , were being examined by the pathologists . |
| 9 | Given the turbulent nature of the city 's politics , even in good times , its well-being and contentment needed to be given careful attention and the city 's problems were being exacerbated by the continual and rapid growth of its population . |
| 10 | Only now the coherence and the poetry were being deluged by the reality , or hope , of psychedelic drugs . |
| 11 | They were being instructed by the fourth , who was treated in hospital for shock . |
| 12 | He asserted that rising crime , lawlessness in the economic sphere , and a general " legal nihilism in society " were being compounded by the authorities ' failure to act decisively . |
| 13 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 14 | Willie lay in bed that night , tired and aching , but the aches were very pleasant ones and as he slept he dreamt that Adam and Eve were being chased by a large whale and that he stood in the garden of Eden wondering if God was nubbly and ate infinite sauce and sagacity . |
| 15 | Most of them were small colour-coated beakers with barbotine decoration , typical of the Nene Valley ; on one animals were being chased by a dog . |
| 16 | The build-up of the Binbrook Canberra Wing in 1951 meant that Bomber Command had entered the jet age ; the Lincolns and Washingtons were being replaced by an aircraft of very different character and performance . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's as if they were being rammed by an invisible man , ’ he said . |
| 18 | A fall in the price of land and in the value of rents meant that the reigns of William and Anne were difficult times for the landed classes , and their plight was exacerbated by the fact that they were being hit by a tax on land of four shillings in the pound to finance the wars against France . |
| 19 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 20 | Within days of the outbreak of war , prominent Arab-Americans were being visited by the FBI and asked about their knowledge of international terrorism . |
| 21 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 22 | The ban was imposed on the grounds that dolphins were being killed by the tuna fleet . |
| 23 | On Nov. 15 Wijeratne announced that Mannar had been " cleared of terrorists " and that 500 Moslem homeguards were being trained by the security forces to protect Moslem villages . |
| 24 | Trainees were being sought by a confusing mixture of providers competing with each other but unable to get them jobs in the end . |
| 25 | The resignation in March of two senior economic ministers [ see p. 37316 ] following a visit by the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , lent credence to reports that almost US$500,000,000 in credits were being withheld by the Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) because of dissatisfaction with the government 's short-term economic policies . |
| 26 | The fisherman on the bank could be the first person to notice that fish were dying or other water creatures were being affected by the pollutant that had suddenly appeared . |
| 27 | If the decisions were being made by a planning inquiry and we were the planning inspectors , would we give permission for the spending of someone else 's money on such as project ? |
| 28 | Within a few months , similar statements were being made by the king , Stanley Baldwin , Ramsay MacDonald , Ernest Bevin , and a whole host of trade unionists . |
| 29 | Jade axes were being made by the Maoris in New Zealand , almost within living memory . |
| 30 | Finally it must be remembered that , at this stage , the majority of the Cossacks still had no inkling of the preparations that were being made by the British to hand them back . |