Sentence examples for were being preserved from inspiring English sources
The museum did not say what had become of Knut's flesh but said his bones were being preserved separately.
This allowed euro-enthusiasts to claim they were making another step towards federal Europe and euro-sceptics to insist that national interests were being preserved.
And the rapprochement between father and son is staged in a cramped space that is framed in the wall like a fish tank, as though the action were being preserved in a vitrine.
He said that a small number were being preserved in cases where there were questions about the outcome of races, and that they were being hidden to keep them out of the hands of government officials.
The upshot was, while the Greek works in particular were disappearing in Europe, they were being preserved in Arabic to be retranslated later into Latin for a rebirth of "lost" knowledge.
Their bodies were being preserved in cold storage, said an activist in the Syrian capital, Damascus, who had been in touch with activists in Baba Amr and would give his name only as Mohammed.
"The land is being preserved," he said.
Old town houses, once derelict, are being preserved.
And 150 years later all their efforts are being preserved and being used now".
It wasn't clear if the tree was being preserved or had been marked for death.
