Example sentences of "and were [being] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 Wessex entertained the suspicion that they had been and were being swindled by Abbey and in particular by Mr. Tully and certain employees of Wessex and Abbey and others . |
| 2 | This quartet , clothed in black from head to foot in commando style woollen caps , roll-neck sweaters , trousers and combat boots , had their hands cuffed behind their backs , and were being escorted at gun point . |
| 3 | He said all patients seen by Dr Almahawi at the infirmary had been identified and were being contacted . |
| 4 | Westminster Hospital confirmed to-day that three casualties had been admitted and were being treated . |
| 5 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 6 | A US armed forces spokesman , Lt-Col Greg Smith , said many of the 527 migrants were ill and were being examined by doctors after disembarking over the weekend . |
| 7 | They were loaded on to two trucks at the airport , and were being moved across the tarmac when one of the bodies exploded . |
| 8 | Both men were arrested and were being questioned at Northwich police station last night . |
| 9 | It is possible , however , that Christianity 's greatest early influence was on those of the Jewish faith who were already questioning the manner in which the scriptures were being used to justify the establishment of secular privileges , and were being cited in support of other controversial practices such as the use of the Temple for financial purposes . |
| 10 | It was only then I began to grasp that several of these old dears , whose daily habit to foregather here it clearly was , were as drunk as lords and were being helped not because of their age , but because otherwise they would fall down . |
| 11 | Council spokesman Doug Allan said the leaflets cost no more than £200 and were being distributed free by supporters . |
| 12 | Green 's research reported in Swann ( 1985 ) demonstrated that intolerant teachers gave least time and attention to Afro-Caribbean boys and Asian girls , while a major investigation , Education for Some , documented that academically able Afro-Caribbean pupils were finding themselves relegated to lower bands and were being entered for examinations below their abilities , with teachers perceptions playing an important part in the discriminatory misallocation ( Eggleston et al . , |
| 13 | They had been loaded on at Perm and were being shipped for slaughter and wool to Irkutsk , the great Cossack camp in eastern Siberia . |
| 14 | However , Soviet forces were still impressive and were being modernized across the whole spectrum . |
| 15 | On the same day Baasam Abu Sharif , senior adviser to Arafat , claimed that 210 Palestinians had died in Kuwait under torture , and by shooting and hanging , and that hundreds of Palestinians were being held in police stations and were being tortured " in indescribable ways " . |
| 16 | The London buses by this time had taken on the look of the more modern style and were being driven by diesel engines , also they were capable of carrying as many as fifty-six passengers . |
| 17 | This was the time when Lucien Freud and the ‘ School of London ’ were being proclaimed as the lost leaders of British art — even of western painting — and were being bought by the Americans . |
| 18 | In the Operations Room , some of the female part-time watchkeepers were just coming on duty and were being briefed on the operations that were planned for the day and those that were already taking place . |
| 19 | These items had been acquired by the Quaker group and were being sold to Sir William . |
| 20 | Fears about the Securitate police surfaced with persistent rumours that their members were still in powerful positions and were being protected by the government . |
| 21 | The remainder were asymptomatic and were being investigated for abnormal liver function tests . |