Example sentences of "[was/were] being [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These moves were condemned on the grounds that backward conditions in hospital were being exchanged for backward conditions in the community . |
| 2 | Will the Minister assure us that information on someone 's behaviour as a prostitute would be accessed only if they were being charged for similar offences ? |
| 3 | He and his friends had collaborated with the Japs , but had quickly seen that the independence granted to Burma was fictitious and that the Burmese people were being exploited for Japanese imperialism . |
| 4 | By early February there were reports of large numbers of dead shellfish on beaches , an increasing number of seals were being treated for internal problems caused by oil poisoning , and a quarter of the economically important salmon-farming industry appeared to be affected by the spill . |
| 5 | Nearly half those who killed themselves were suffering from mental illness , most of those were being treated for those problems when they died . |
| 6 | They were being overcharged for third-rate beer , much of it brewed from cheap and inferior ingredients . |
| 7 | The fire claimed hundreds of parachutes which were being prepared for military exercises . |
| 8 | Computed tomography of the gall bladder was initially done on all patients but latterly , only patients who were being considered for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy ( patients with one to three gall stones which were less than 3 cm in diameter ) were scanned to determine stone density ( calcification ) . |
| 9 | Bosses at Woburn said they had no idea the monkeys were being used for medical research . |
| 10 | But Linfield had no idea that Dinamo were being investigated for suspected bribery . |
| 11 | But Linfield had no idea that Dinamo were being investigated for suspected bribery . |
| 12 | The remainder were asymptomatic and were being investigated for abnormal liver function tests . |
| 13 | Early in January 1758 , however , Lieutenant Home 's brother , David Home of Wedderburn , complained that the promise had not been kept and that the lieutenant had been ordered to join a fireship at Spithead which was being prepared for foreign service . |
| 14 | The third was that when Mrs Thatcher concluded that the way was being prepared for full membership of the EMS , she was able to destroy the shadowing strategy by loudly denying its existence . |
| 15 | It was announced on June 8 that the parliamentary term due to end on June 9 was being extended for 12 months in view of the " war situation " . |
| 16 | He felt that he was being earmarked for special attention from the Dale 's big central defenders in a rough and tumble encounter that saw McDonough being given his marching orders in the 66th minute for an alleged use of the elbow . |
| 17 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |
| 18 | This man , he was a criminal , he was one of the worst , he had broken the laws of the land and he was being crucified for that reason but the measure of his sin , the gravity of his sin , did not alter his chance of sa being saved . |
| 19 | The Bolshevik revolution lent new urgency to Russian demands for general peace negotiations , and , in December , the new regime 's publication of secret treaties between the Allies laying down agreed post-war spheres of influence in Turkey and the Middle East , appeared to lend force to claims that the war was being fought for imperial gain . |
| 20 | He described as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ suggestions that local government was being reformed for political reasons and in order to remove the big Labour battalions of Strathclyde and Lothian . |
| 21 | Blyth Valley objected to this , not on the grounds that industrial land was being used for non-manufacturing purposes , but because it wanted the site retained as a green belt . |
| 22 | If motorists could see that the tax was being used for that purpose , they would be much happier about paying it |