Example sentences of "was [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought someone was bein' murdered . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't fink she was bein' 'ard pressed . ’ |
| 3 | She reckoned I was bein' a bit forward . |
| 4 | The police had been asked by the organizers of the vigil to provide protection after an incident earlier in the evening when about 200 suspicious-looking men appeared outside the house where the vigil was being held . |
| 5 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 6 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 7 | When asked if they would like subventions from the state to aid their stipends and church buildings , a move which was being seriously considered by the British government at the time , priests and bishops were united in rejecting the idea on the grounds that it would drive a wedge between clergy and people , identifying clergy with the principal enemies of the people . |
| 8 | Concessions would only be required once a united Ireland was being negotiated ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii . |
| 9 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 10 | They declared , rightly , that the very power of the clergy in education was being attacked , and , probably wrongly , that the reform of the faults of the present system was only the apparent reason . |
| 11 | He was being much more friendly than Father who had n't spoken a word to me all evening . |
| 12 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 13 | He led Bill firmly to the baize door and down the stairs , never once looking back to see if he was being followed . |
| 14 | The man on the Belgium desk at the Foreign Office was being driven to despair by what was coming out of Brussels at the moment but Henry saw no reason to say so . |
| 15 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 16 | In those days , spinsterhood was seen as a mark of personal inadequacy , and I , as they probably all realized , was being left on the shelf . |
| 17 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 18 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
| 19 | In one accident I witnessed , the take off was being made towards the glare of the sun . |
| 20 | The creation of this order at the time a new Official Secrets Bill was being pushed through Parliament by an increasingly interventionist government is significant , and the idea of a senior officer 's having ‘ first read ’ of any essay to maintain the integrity of the institution manifests the importance of the legalized surveillance of allegedly dangerous material and enhances the separation of the world of control from that academic enquiry ; although its implementation is only randomly applied . |
| 21 | In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there . |
| 22 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 23 | The first time a boy kissed her , she thought he was being charitable and told him he did n't have to . |
| 24 | He was being cheated . |
| 25 | In poetry it found its perfect fulfilment ; already , his vocation was being felt . |
| 26 | What was true on the wider front was also true at a personal level : Layton was about to go into his most prolific period of writing , and the whole literary scene was being galvanised into a productivity never before realised in Canada . |
| 27 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 28 | I was being followed by a crowd . |
| 29 | The landlady repeated that she was being very lenient with him but generosity on her part was not without limits , my girl . |
| 30 | The Statue of Liberty had just arrived from Paris and was being assembled so it was not in New York harbour when they arrived . |