Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their origin is thought to be the east Mediterranean and if the majority were being imported into Kent very few were allowed to pass further . |
| 2 | In each place nine clients remained as open cases , but only two in Ipswich and three in Newham were receiving support worker help ( the remainder were being regularly monitored ) . |
| 3 | An election could come at any time , and policies across the board were being honed in readiness . |
| 4 | We were told that the papers in the case were being examined and it was clearly implied that action would be taken . |
| 5 | Other houses , real houses , in the neighbourhood were being touched by what had happened to the Pitt family in No. 22 , Church Row . |
| 6 | As part of a complex programme of development the Foxton scheme only makes sense if other parts of the programme were being tackled ; few of them were started . |
| 7 | Stokesley , who had succeeded Tunstall as Bishop of London , as well as More , had been known to make special enquires about Tyndale 's appearance and movements whenever suspected heretics coming from the Continent were being examined . |
| 8 | In the sick bay the final details of the plan were being drawn up . |
| 9 | The peasantry were being drawn into the money economy , thereby raising consumer demand . |
| 10 | Only now the coherence and the poetry were being deluged by the reality , or hope , of psychedelic drugs . |
| 11 | Thus , some 400 of the 914 residential places available in the community were being substantially supported from such sources by mid-1988 compared with a maximum of forty-seven such places in January 1982 . |
| 12 | Others in the team were being filled with the Spirit and others strengthened for the work of ministry . |
| 13 | But as the results of the inquiry were being made public , Mr Clinton spent two hours holding ‘ terrific ’ talks with the president . |
| 14 | Er it would be some of the bodies I think oh er wait a minute I 'm trying to think what the casting were be used for there were other things besides locks you see I forget what they the , I know they used to do the castings and the brass castings it would be for the locks , for the locks yeah |
| 15 | If the job already exists a job specification should still be drawn up as though the job were being created from scratch . |
| 16 | On one occasion the group were being asked about their thoughts on the question of how pupils who disrupt lessons by walking out should be disciplined . |
| 17 | The use and refinement of existing powers The legal and operational precedents set by the strike were being followed and expanded by the police almost as soon as the dispute was over . |
| 18 | Going back to the your mining background , erm after the Strike were were your father and grandfather members of both the Nottingham Miners Associa Association and the industrial union ? |
| 19 | Seven years later , remedial works were still being carried out ; the raised flood-banks set far too close to the watercourse were being eroded away ; the stability of the downstream bridge was threatened ; and the real cost to the public purse of what was a relatively small scheme originally has yet to be clearly counted . |
| 20 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 21 | The steps of the cathedral were being used as a grandstand by some of the local young people and a few early tourists . |
| 22 | The last pupils of the day were being let in to view the Bookman . |
| 23 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 24 | As The Economist went to press , the terms of the realignment were being discussed in Brussels . |
| 25 | Files on the paper were being opened in cuttings libraries and ( behind the scenes ) on executive computers . |
| 26 | Leaflets with details of the offer were being sent to 18 million households in the UK today and a Share Information Office was set up to handle inquiries from the public on 081 200 3000 . |
| 27 | The first Ordnance Surveys of the island were being undertaken in three sections : Portree/Dunvegan , Staffin/Quiraing , the Cuillins . |
| 28 | The " sectarian mistakes " of the past were being overcome . |
| 29 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 30 | The chimes of bells which stood in every district of the city were being rung as they sat down — both because the ringers had been amply bribed and because they thought it politic to honour Artai and his chief supporter — and a small orchestra of trumpets and tambours had been hired by a steward and was accommodated in the yard , so that Burun 's speech of welcome to his guests , as well as their affable replies , were conducted with much opening and shutting of mouths and a deal of dumb show . |