Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workforce in many work units was being trimmed in order to improve efficiency and save money . |
| 2 | The FMLN also claimed that aid from international organizations was being prevented from reaching them and that captured FMLN members were now being held as political prisoners . |
| 3 | CSTK had reported on Sept. 24 that the number of Slovak ministries was being reduced from 17 to 13 . |
| 4 | Yet the NFA was slow to report Stotler Funds ' inadequacies , including the fact that money from the mutual funds was being used to buy the commercial paper of the failing parent firm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , it was not only on the Left that the search for radical solutions was being pursued . |
| 7 | The perceived prime advantage of residential homes was being well cared for and companionship ; the costs and loss of independence were perceived as the main disadvantages . |
| 8 | In Green v Burnett [ 1954 ] 3 All ER 273 it was held that an employer was guilty of ‘ using ’ , as a vehicle with defective brakes was being used on his business . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries . |
| 11 | A girl , aged two , who was locked in her home for nearly 24 hours with the bodies of her dead parents was being looked after by relatives yesterday . |
| 12 | The young princes had already been warned that an announcement concerning their parents was being made . |
| 13 | By mid-century , responsibility for burial in urban areas was being progressively removed from the vestry and parish into the hands of representatives of the ratepayers . |
| 14 | When the exam was introduced there was outcry as people realised English in some areas was being marked on 100 per cent course work with no final examination . |
| 15 | The Welsh were not suffering alone : A stockpile of sandbags was being prepared in north Devon last night after it was badly hit by flash floods . |
| 16 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 17 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 18 | The European of Sept. 10 , 1990 , reported on a European Parliament paper which found that EC aid to developing countries was being spent on projects which directly destroyed the forests of Asia , Africa and South America . |
| 19 | After all in Scotland , by contrast , the building of new asylums was being considered . |
| 20 | However , we did see sets of study skills booklets acquired through the project ( in one case being used in library lessons ) , and in another school project work originating in tutorial periods was being developed in study skills lessons with a view to using specific project purchases . |
| 21 | In 1947 he was staying with his ‘ father ’ when , by chance , a new play by P. H. Burton called The Rescuers was being produced . |
| 22 | The working party 's report on political offences was being considered in late May . |
| 23 | By the time of Edward I the major part of the Forest revenues was being raised and accounted for by the sheriffs . |
| 24 | The first wave of British bands was being supplanted by the new Californian sound . |
| 25 | My memory of those days was being tired all the time , waking up tired , going through the day tired , going to bed tired . |
| 26 | Before you end , a few minutes , er , Mr President , I wonder if I can just say , er , that you may remember , this really is a matter arising , but you may remember that , at the last meeting , of , of , the Annual General Meeting of N C V O , er , my organisation , the National Federation of Community Organisations was was bold enough to propose a resolution other than , than those required , and it is in your Minutes , if you have them . |
| 27 | The idea arose from fears expressed in western industrialized countries that the free market of ideas was being threatened by the fact that the prohibitive costs of entry into media ownership prevented the involvement of anyone other than rich individuals or large corporations . |
| 28 | Remember the Philippine jailer , he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was , er in jail there with Silas they , they 'd been that tremendous earthquake , and they were released , all their fetters was was were broken , and the prisoners were all , could all have escaped ! |
| 29 | It may be noted that although throughout the preceding period the vast proportion of the nation 's building costs was being spent on war damage repairs and reinstatement , an activity in which building and quantity surveyors provided invaluable service , the building surveyor made no impact within the Institution at this time . |
| 30 | The lovely smell of beer and tobacco smoke built up over almost a hundred years was being driven out by other smells : fresh paint , newly-glued-together plastic and fried food . |