Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he showed them his real find , the Rivera murals , the white-clothed indigenos who were being liberated , the obese bosses with their cigars tumbling , the beautiful Mayan prostitute cheeking the bourgeois couple in Almeida Park . |
| 2 | A senior female officer explained to an assembly of policewomen who were being trained in how to operate a casualty bureau that they were better suited to operating the telephones because of their ‘ good manners and compassionate nature ’ ( FN 29/5/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 3 | The less fortunate were the severely wounded who were being placed on the grass with two medics to attend to their wounds . |
| 4 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |
| 5 | The Bishop of Durham , the Right Rev David Jenkins , asked why good , caring and conscientious priests opposed to ordination of women should trouble collective consciences more than the women excluded from the ministry , who were being treated ‘ more and more as pawns in a political game ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ These were people who were being sent back against their will to a country they had sought to leave and it is inevitable that they should not be joyful , but there was no resistance . ’ |
| 7 | The earlier prints on the film were of men who were being rolled across canvases covered in paint . |
| 8 | Councillors received many heart-rending pleas from families who were being forced into emigration as the only alternative to their miserable and expensive accommodation ; complaints about rat infestation were not infrequent . |
| 9 | Eventually the crowd dispersed down John Street ; any enthusiasm for the original route was dampened by the presence of a large crowd of loyalists who were being restrained by the police behind the barriers . |
| 10 | Inside the shrine wall-paintings showed the young king of Meroë with his feet resting on lines of bound prisoners ( one of them possibly a Roman legionary ) who were being subjected to the same indignity . |
| 11 | This new freedom to travel safely far and wide had a profound effect not only on men 's lives but also on their thoughts and beliefs ; these men who were being uprooted provided ‘ the background to the anxious thoughts of the religious leaders of the late second century ’ . |
| 12 | I was sent hither and thither on messages , and sometimes went in the car with a billeting officer to help him or her with young children who were being placed in homes . |
| 13 | The students , who were being trained by Kalb and others in the US , allege that the other expeditions had stolen fossils from Ethiopia , had failed to provide training or facilities for Ethiopians , and had made light of Ethiopian culture and customs . |
| 14 | She 'd done the photo session of couture gowns as well , of course , clicking away dutifully with those other photographers who were being dictated to by their fashion editors . |
| 15 | We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) . |
| 16 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 17 | Paul the missionary , that master of cross-cultural communication , admitted that the message about Christ 's death on the cross was nonsense to those who were being lost ( 1 Cor. |
| 18 | The fight was between five men who were being watched by a screaming crowd of about 60 onlookers . |
| 19 | The two men , who were being questioned at the high-security Paddington Green police station in central London under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , will appear at Arbour Square Magistrates ' Court this morning . |
| 20 | There were rumours of anger among the grain farmers , who were being given IOUs instead of cash for their crops . |
| 21 | This view was expressed forcibly but politely to students who were being prepared to teach in state schools . |
| 22 | The most important overt reason was this ‘ discovery ’ of a large group of people who were being effectively denied legal representation . |
| 23 | It was not only the female compositors who were being asked for support . |
| 24 | Exemptions from selective service were far more easily gained by the wealthy and influential than by working-class families , and as the casualty lists grew , it was the latter who were being most affected . |
| 25 | Next day , when I arrived to take my seat on the coach to our town , I discovered I was sitting in front of two convicts , who were being taken to the prison-ships by their guard . |
| 26 | Witnesses er who 've who 've been on to us have described seeing five people dead , and at least three wounded who were being rushed to hospital . |
| 27 | Erm , only three scholarship , but then of course , you got the er governors free places , which were nearly the same , and then the number who were being paid for . |
| 28 | And er so I think the kind of people who were being housed . |
| 29 | Agitation may have been couched in a vocabulary which spoke of national morality , but it was clear who were being singled out as the recipients of purity action . |
| 30 | It was rather a horrid mist ; you felt as if it might be concealing peering , grinning creatures who were being very careful to stay just out of sight , but who were creeping after you as you rode along , or who were tiptoeing on ahead of you , rubbing their hands together , waiting until you reached them … |