Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun prp] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the old London was being destroyed around him , and on 29 December 1940 , incendiary bombs set the City ablaze : life was peculiar now , he told Mary Hutchinson five days later , and in the preface to an anthology published in the following year , he discussed the problems of a " changing and bewildered world " . |
| 2 | The Gaelic Knight was being followed by another yacht , Tuhula , when it was swamped by the heavy seas and torrential rain . |
| 3 | Aid agencies are warning that relief work in the former Yugoslavia is being jeopardised by volunteers taking emergency supplies into war zones without proper guidance . |
| 4 | : Mmd An exhibition to let people see what could be the new Henley is being held at the town hall . |
| 5 | The opening sentence of the Sun report — under the headline Girl , 6 , raped by ‘ New Fox' — has the echo of the earlier report reproduced above — ‘ A savage sex fiend dubbed The New Fox was being hunted by police last night … . ’ |
| 6 | The competitive Morris was being unduly hard on himself , though there was no getting away from the fact that a missed kick by him to touch in the final second against Wasps at Sudbury had spelt defeat . |
| 7 | In the late fifteenth century the new centre of power and culture in a unified Russia was being established in Moscow . |
| 8 | Concessions would only be required once a united Ireland was being negotiated ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii . |
| 9 | A specially-built Ferrari is being entered privately for the gruelling Le Mans ( 24 ) Twenty Four hour race by an engineering team … not from Italy … but from the Forest of Dean . |
| 10 | A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time . |
| 11 | A new HNC is being developed to meet the need for technician engineers with skills in electronics , computing and mechanical engineering , in other words , in the new interdisciplinary approach to engineering called mechatronics . |