Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did notice that the nice little woman had gently squeezed her hand when Dr Neil was being at his most dictatorial over men 's right to beat their wives . |
| 2 | Worse , Dr Neil was being so kind , when reason told her that no one would blame him if he turned her away for what she had done . |
| 3 | Of course Cathy Carne was being difficult , already there had been an outburst over something he had said . |
| 4 | The supreme irony for Hill was being part of the first South West team to win the ADT Divisional Championship two weeks ago . |
| 5 | In the World Cup matches against France and Scotland , Richard Hill was being hounded at the base of the scrum . |
| 6 | Yeltsin said that he had lured the coup leaders out of the Kremlin , where they were protected , by challenging them to go to Foros , the Black Sea resort where Gorbachev was being held , to get a statement from Gorbachev to confirm their claim that he was unable to carry out his duties . |
| 7 | Unsurprisingly , there was talk that Dustin was being considered for the title role of Portnoy 's Complaint , the film version of Philip Roth 's novel of a Jewish mother-dominated boy with masturbation problems . |
| 8 | In the meantime , Dustin was being honoured in other quarters . |
| 9 | His homeward journey took him via Mainz , where he gave a concert before the elector ; Mannheim , where Figaro was being performed ; Augsburg , Munich and Linz . |
| 10 | EVIDENCE of widespread insider dealing ahead of yesterday 's £480million bid for Dixons was being investigated by Stock Exchange officials last night . |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia , however , believing that the IEA was being too pessimistic about future demand , was unofficially estimated to have increased its production by some 150,000 bpd to 8,500,000 bpd ( excluding 150,000 bpd Saudi production from the neutral zone which it shared with Kuwait ) . |
| 12 | DAVID WAS WAS ( NOT WAS ) |
| 13 | One example was when Etty was being bathed at home on a Sunday , at the age of 14 . |
| 14 | It was clear the United States was being left out . |
| 15 | The demonstration came as Préval was being rebuked in parliament for the government 's poor economic performance and for his administrative reform programme , which , his critics claimed , lacked clear objectives or a coherent policy for the dismissal and appointment of state employees . |
| 16 | Independent bodies like Amnesty International began to focus on the conditions in which the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait was being conducted . |
| 17 | Dimly she was aware that de Raimes was being carried by two men , that she was being prodded and pushed down a flight of stairs . |
| 18 | But when he strolled out into the front drive , Mr McWhirter was being decanted from a neighbour 's car at the front gate . |
| 19 | She 'd checked the impulse when she realised that since Travis was being man enough not to ask that of her she really could not interfere , only for Rosemary to reiterate all she had told Travis before . |
| 20 | By October Eva was being farewelled from Australia to " her first appointment on missionary service to the Howard Institute in Southern Rhodesia " ( Australian War Cry November 15th 1952 ) . |
| 21 | The oil supply to the Mazeikiai oil refinery was restored on June 30 , and on July 2 Ryzhkov confirmed that the entire range of economic sanctions against Lithuania was being ended . |
| 22 | Before long , Giles was being employed as a mundane baggage handler , at Heathrow . |
| 23 | In Geneva , a UN spokesman said Washington was being asked to provide heavy helicopters to take in supplies and evacuate wounded people from Srebrenica . |
| 24 | A major development of the area had taken place , the CNAA was being seen to be ‘ fierce ’ in its approach , and institutions were being obliged to be ‘ thorough ’ . |
| 25 | The next moment Ronni was being led inside , into a huge tiled entrance hall with a round central table weighed down by an enormous vase of fresh flowers . |
| 26 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 27 | JM said that a meeting in May was being planned . |
| 28 | He told a conference in Salzburg , Austria , that the NHS was being ‘ penny wise pound foolish ’ in the use of medicines . |
| 29 | The man interviewed in Doncaster was being treated as a witness who may have information about Moira 's disappearance . |
| 30 | Like the time that Clint Eastwood was being interviewed by a researcher in Paris . |