Example sentences of "of [noun] [was/were] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Economy Minister revealed that ‘ further good news ’ was in the pipeline , and hinted that a couple of projects were being negotiated . |
| 2 | He said that in spite of gloom and doom in some quarters about falling markets for offshore structures , a healthy number of projects were being proposed for approval and exploration success rates in the North Sea remained high . |
| 3 | The former , according to Dr Oliver Rackham , indicates that areas of woodland were being carefully managed as coppices with standards in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to produce the poles for rails and hurdles and the timber for the heavier tracks . |
| 4 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 5 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 6 | In Georgia , which had declared independence on April 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38159 ] , the Supreme Soviet banned the CP on Aug. 27 , and it was reported on Aug. 28 that a Georgian ministry of defence was being created . |
| 7 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |
| 8 | National Trust regional director , Merlin Waterson , said ‘ protected ’ species of birds were being shot by trespassers and the shingle banks were being used by off-road vehicle enthusiasts . |
| 9 | Um , usually these kinds of writings were written by y'know kind of upper class white heterosexual men erm so er you can see where that kind of prospective was coming from , but er nevertheless these kinds of views were being expressed around about that time . |
| 10 | According to Lord Elphinstone , the candidacy of Buchanan of Aucheneen was being pressed by Dundas of Lethem , one of Montrose 's friends , a gentleman who does not seem to have hesitated to make use of the duke 's name in the course of his canvass for Aucheneen . |
| 11 | His choice of vegetables was being dictated to him over a portable telephone . |
| 12 | Similar gestures of sympathy were being made in Cork and Galway , where newspapers also opened support funds for the bombing victims . |
| 13 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
| 14 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 15 | And the year when the industrial base of Germany was being systematically dismantled and shipped to the victors . |
| 16 | The Senate votes of confidence were boycotted by the opposition on the grounds that the legislative role of parliament was being restricted . |
| 17 | Hall 's positive views about the timing of the judges ' appointments probably originated as early as 1835 , when the plans for the new Houses of Parliament were being considered . |
| 18 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 19 | The arts generally continued to thrive through public subsidy , to orchestral music above all , and new forms of partnership were being developed between the Arts Council and local authorities and industry and finance . |
| 20 | Bull sources nevertheless told Reuter some kind of partnership was being sought for Zenith.Bull is included on the list of state-controlled companies France wants to privatise . |
| 21 | Now their Cult of Pleasure was being persecuted by the agents of the distant Phoenix King . |
| 22 | In the hope that deteriorating wartime conditions in Vietnam would spark insurrection , a liberation army of sorts was being formed on the border ; but when the attack went off at half-cock ( leaders executed or arrested and followers dispersed ) another threat to the French position was removed and it must have become clear that the only credible threat to French power lay in France itself , at least until the forces of nationalism were able to attract some effective outside sponsorship or else embed themselves in the people to the point where they became an organized national resistance . |
| 23 | The building , about 1440 , at the Mont-Saint-Michel , of a form of bastion not dissimilar to that to be developed in Italy , underlines how this matter of overcoming the defensive problems created by the development of artillery was being dealt with . |
| 24 | Independent bodies like Amnesty International began to focus on the conditions in which the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait was being conducted . |
| 25 | A ratio significantly larger than one would imply that an excess amount of neutrons was being detected when the cells were being operated , and hence be evidence for fusion taking place . |
| 26 | Drums of architecture were being beaten till they burst . |
| 27 | While the textile industry was growing , the port of Chester was being blocked by river mud . |
| 28 | At first their meeting places were simple , box-like structures but by the middle years of Victoria 's reign pompous new buildings in the Gothic style favoured by the Church of England were being built instead . |
| 29 | In addition to these structural changes — and they were to continue in the 1970s and 1980s with Channel Four and TV-am , to say nothing of cable systems and satellite broadcasting — the underlying philosophy of broadcasting was being increasingly and powerfully challenged . |
| 30 | A very early type of chainsaw was being used , and the slaves were being cruelly treated . |