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"were being applied" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used when talking about an action taking place in the past, and the action was still continuing at the time. For example, "The new regulations were being applied when the incident occurred."
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But he also questioned whether the housing ordinances were being applied evenly across ethnic groups.
While the plasters were being applied, Breivik wondered why he was bleeding.
It admitted "there was justifiable concern [last year]... that superinjunctions were being applied for and granted far too readily".
Dana observed that different standards were being applied to male and female lawyers, but her colleagues dismissed her "liberal" concerns.
At the end of October, finishing touches were being applied to Walter's (No. 166, also out of Williamsburg), a brasserie.
Construction had come to a halt, thrifts were being liquidated, and stricter lending standards were being applied.
But at the weekend some of his colleagues, notably Alan Johnson, suggested the rules were being applied in a problematic way.
It's as if brakes were being applied to the music, or as if a gravitational body were exerting force from the outside.
"I always thought he was being treated as a scapegoat, that the rules were being applied to him in retrospect," he said.
Mr. Comey and others at the Justice Department believed that the agency might be violating laws against torture because of how the techniques were being applied.
This was especially true in the decade after 1910, when the principles of scientific management were being applied wholesale in the United States.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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