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The phrase "were being enlisted" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is a verb phrase in the past continuous tense, which is used to describe an action that was ongoing in the past. Some examples of when you can use this phrase are: - "During the war, many young men were being enlisted in the army." - "The company's recruitment drive was successful, and new employees were being enlisted every day." - "The volunteers were being enlisted to help with the disaster relief efforts." - "The students were being enlisted to participate in the school's annual charity event." - "The soldiers were being enlisted for a top-secret mission."
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He complained that military guards were being enlisted to hide the prisoners from the Red Cross.
At the arena, though, the trappings of stadium rock, albeit in a minor key, were being enlisted to make tennis appear hip and groovy – by corporate types, one assumes, who think it is hip and groovy to use terms such as "hip and groovy".
In October 1944, children as young as fourteen were being enlisted.
The Council of Clerics in the south, a body of the most important religious figures, recently issued a religious edict saying that women had the right to vote, and some mullahs in the districts were being enlisted to help with registration, she said.
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Electronic prescription monitoring systems are being enlisted.
I'm afraid you are being enlisted on the side of the forces of darkness.
Now, in tandem with that, supercomputers are being enlisted to predict their spread.
But critics say it is being enlisted in the government's biggest assault on freedom of speech in decades.
Indeed, increasingly, designers are being enlisted in the service of their country (or other countries for that matter).
Badgers and skunks are being enlisted in the state's fight against pelicans that are eating too many sport fish and hurting delicate populations of Yellowstone cutthroat trout.
The contest — at www.wheredoyouwhiten.com — will be judged by the singer Jennifer Nettles of the band Sugarland, who is being enlisted as a spokeswoman.
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