Example sentences of "was be [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brophy said that he was being questioned about leaks , and that rumours and false information were circulating . |
| 2 | The evening newspapers , however , noted that a suspect was being questioned about the current crime , so there was no further speculation about possible links between the various attacks . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 4 | Police chief Calvin Ross said a person was being questioned about the killing of Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand , the eighth foreign tourist and the fourth German killed in Florida in the past year . |
| 5 | He was being questioned about Glasgow 's declining health standards by worried councillors . |
| 6 | Some decided that they would not pay the poll tax , but the people about whom I worry are those such as the elderly lady suffering from a form of senile dementia who came to me because she was being harassed about the poll tax . |
| 7 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology described the ozone losses shown by these measurements as " not very much less that in the Antarctic spring " although " the effects were less dramatic because the polar ozone was being resupplied about as fast as it was being destroyed " . |
| 8 | The word Freedom was being bandied about a lot at the time and meant many different things . |
| 9 | Jerry Bailey typically articulate was being asked about his success on Ah Kong He described how he had moved alongside a European ridden horse . |
| 10 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 11 | Diana took the criticism to heart , avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent . |
| 12 | She realised that what was being said about Michael must be true . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard currently looks by far the best placed of the biggest manufacturers to come out as the winner in the 1990s — but then three or four years ago , that was being said about DEC . |
| 14 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 15 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 16 | Councillor Willie McCafferty said that a lot of hot air was being blown about the issue , and that they should n't hold a seminar until they were actually sure mining would go ahead , adding , ‘ A lot of people here will have their pockets well lined and I make no apologies for that ’ . |
| 17 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the problems ’ , said Nigel Howkins of the JMT , ‘ has been that while our initiative was underway , people felt that something was being done about Mar Lodge ’ . |
| 19 | information on absentees and what was being done about them to be regularly fed back to appropriate staff |
| 20 | The din became even louder as we turned into Trinity where a gang of felons was being driven about London in a cart wearing a scrawled notice around their neck listing their offence . |
| 21 | But if Urquhart were speaking the truth at last — and she wondered whether yet another web of deception was being woven about her — he had forged her into an unwitting tool of the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | Says Reagan : ‘ The speaker that followed me spoke in Spanish and he was being applauded about every paragraph . |
| 23 | This time last year we were very apprehensive about entering a year when so much doom and gloom was being talked about . |
| 24 | The case , reported in local newspapers and on the radio , was being talked about , and Wycliffe was aware of other diners watching him . |
| 25 | David Garrington , 26 , of Wynyard Road , Hartlepool , punched another man because he was being taunted about his stammer and blindness in one eye , the town 's magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 26 | I do n't know if I was thinking about Another Woman but if George was being blackmailed about something like … and he 'd taken you along because you were tough and … you see the silly fantasies I get into when I 'm alone ? ’ |