Example sentences of "of [noun sg] were be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Similar gestures of sympathy were being made in Cork and Galway , where newspapers also opened support funds for the bombing victims . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Drums of architecture were being beaten till they burst . |
| 7 | In Anglo-Irish. erm ‘ There was a small tap on the pane , as though something had struck it , followed by a light , though abundant falling , as though grains of sand were being dropped from a window above , and then a more intense and regular sound , which took on a rhythm and became fluid , resonant , musical , infinite , universal . |
| 8 | All of this meant that Paisley 's criticisms of apostasy were being uttered in a considerably more apostate era than the times in which Hunter and Grier had failed to promote their schism . |
| 9 | But rumours of war were being sounded by 1539 and in 1542 there began almost a decade of fighting . |
| 10 | Around 428 million tonnes of waste were being generated annually . |
| 11 | By the late 1960s a number of lines of evidence were being brought together into a new , radical model of global tectonics . |
| 12 | And at a time of frequent harvest failures and recurrent food shortage , exports of grain were being ruthlessly forced upwards . |
| 13 | Soon pieces of meat were being roasted right around the fire , and the air was thick with the smell of charred flesh and singeing fur . |
| 14 | The smaller landlords who could not find cash or credit to equip themselves as sugar planters quickly sold out ; land prices in the 1640s rose to heights which showed that the profits of sugar were being anticipated and capitalized generously . |
| 15 | While the tank was being prepared and the water standing , six large pieces of bogwood were being soaked in a dustbin to allow the tannic acid to leach out of the wood to a limited extent , as I intended that the wood would still leach out the acid and brown coloration into the aquarium water providing the fish with darkened water to swim around in . |
| 16 | In May , following these forays , Hitler had his first top-level meeting to discuss the western defences with the Todt Organisation , and plans were begun for the so-called Atlantic Wall , although there already existed a series of defended ports and the original defence arrangements set up when fleets of craft were being assembled for an invasion of England . |
| 17 | The city was envisaged , then , as a social cauldron ; one in which the struggles between the old and new ways of life were being actively conducted . |
| 18 | The it was halted there , and er all the barrels of ale were were were were rolled off , we were rolled off the vehicle . |
| 19 | Around four million barrels ( 660,000 tonnes ) of oil were being burned each day in March 1991 , nearly three times the pre-war Kuwait output and almost 10 per cent of the world 's daily ration . |
| 20 | In one case it was able to show that tracks of information were being written too closely together , thus partially erasing each other . |
| 21 | Husks of rye and scraps of straw were being splintered aside by the charging horse . |
| 22 | Three species of lacewing were being studied . |
| 23 | Broadly speaking then , at this time , two versions of mathematics were being taught to two different categories of pupil , largely in different types of school , by teachers who , again broadly speaking , had been educated in two different types of post-school institution : the university and the teacher training college . |
| 24 | In the countryside beyond Adelaide , tiny villages were just beginning to emerge , and acres of land were being cultivated for garden plots . |
| 25 | Before long what has been described aptly by one penologist as a malfunction began to appear as it became evident that suspended sentences of imprisonment were being used in place of non-custodial penalties , especially probation orders and fines . |
| 26 | In the early 1970s more and more allegations of cohabitation were being investigated , and more women were being deprived of benefit on these grounds . |
| 27 | Deforestation was the chief cause of floods and landslides which killed several hundred people each year ; 15,000 million tonnes of earth were being washed into Asian rivers each year and villages were lacking clean drinking water . |
| 28 | In April the government had stated that more than 600 people suspected of collaboration were being detained [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 29 | In Russia , too , the abstract possibilities of Cubism were being explored and developed . |