Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports from the Muslim Refugees ' Relief Organization on Oct. 29 suggested that Moslems in Mannar were being subjected to widespread harassment by Tamil rebels , allegedly for co-operating with the security forces . |
| 2 | The country 's rulers were , after all , running scared : the American colonies had declared their independence in 1776 in dangerously democratic terms ; the writings of Tom Paine were being disseminated far and wide ; and , most threatening of all , there was every chance that the Jacobin ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 might take firm root in English soil . |
| 3 | Beer , brandy , Scotch and Malibu were being drunk out of plastic cups , everybody was in uniform and there were lots of medals and badges in evidence . |
| 4 | Reports issued by human rights organizations claimed that members of the civilian population remaining in Kuwait were being subjected to brutal torture and repression . |
| 5 | The bombers could be brought down or exploded in the air by Surface-to-Air Missiles and SAMS were being turned out like sausages , according to Khrushchev , in order to ring Moscow and other cities . |
| 6 | Two Nintendo Gameboys were being used when a Douglas DC-10 automatic direction finder suffered bearing discrepancies . |
| 7 | When the measures to privatise British Telecom were being debated in the House , Opposition Members said that the public telephone box was threatened with extinction . |
| 8 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 9 | On Nov. 13 , 1989 , External Affairs Minister Omar Sey said that there was incontrovertible evidence that Gambian citizens travelling to and from Senegal were being subjected to harassment . |
| 10 | The Interior Minister Larbi Belkheir said on March 12 that 6,786 people interned in January and February were being held in five camps in the Sahara . |
| 11 | Willie lay in bed that night , tired and aching , but the aches were very pleasant ones and as he slept he dreamt that Adam and Eve were being chased by a large whale and that he stood in the garden of Eden wondering if God was nubbly and ate infinite sauce and sagacity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They now operated in cells , and even if Patrick and Jane were being sheltered , only a very small number of people , perhaps no more than two or three , might be aware of it . |
| 14 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 15 | The funerals of James Kelly and James McKenna were being held in Maghera with Requiem Mass at St Patrick 's Church , Glen . |
| 16 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 17 | Old baby reins and buggies were brought into use and children in the Strand were being pushed around in trolleys . |
| 18 | Old lead mines in the Pennine Hills were being closed . |
| 19 | At Ludwigsburg Leopold suspected that his attempts to gain an audience with Karl Eugen , Duke of Wurtemberg were being thwarted by the intervention of Niccolò Jommelli ( court Kapellmeister at Stuttgart ) who was attempting to prevent Germans from appearing before the Duke . |
| 20 | In the 1730s settlements in the Tobol region to the south-east of the Urals were being attacked . |
| 21 | The Equal Rights faction conveyed a protest to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Helsinki [ see pp. 39030-31 ] that human rights in Latvia were being violated . |
| 22 | He made counter-accusations that 42,000 Bosnian Serbs were being held as detainees , in 21 camps , by the Bosnian Croats and Moslems , and that over 6,000 Bosnian Serb civilians had been killed as detainees . |
| 23 | Unidentified groups of rioters attacked and set on fire the city police headquarters , where it was believed that some of those arrested earlier in University Square were being held . |
| 24 | One advantage Bedfordshire has at this time was that packages such as SIR , EDFAX and COMMUNITEL were being piloted in the country and one librarian was involved in a Prestel project . |
| 25 | PLANS for Britain 's first £300m toll motorway the Birmingham Northern Relief Road were being unveiled . |
| 26 | But he was always prepared to turn off the tape and listen to her ranting on about how she missed Ricky and how bloody the Argentines were being to her and to their horses . |
| 27 | Boro were being pushed back but Stuart Ripley raised hopes with a brilliant run down the middle in which he beat three players . |
| 28 | In 1967–8 the Yukons were being phased out and an aircraft was needed to supplement the Cosmopolitans . |
| 29 | Inquiries to Mr Peterken were being redirected to the board 's press office . |
| 30 | By the beginning of this century Ayrshires were being exported in large numbers to Finland , Sweden and Canada in particular and also to the USA , Australia , New Zealand and Japan . |