Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skraggin' o' the city was goin' good , from his point-a-view . |
| 2 | In the 1680s , when Colbert de Croissy was preaching honourable behaviour to his son , the theft or attempted theft of despatches was still a commonplace of diplomacy . |
| 3 | He was seeing small things with such clarity now . |
| 4 | Against that there 'll be seventeen percent of this population was seeing home-helps , five percent was seeing social workers . |
| 5 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 6 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 7 | Liartes , by far the most cautious of the two brothers , was circling high above them . |
| 8 | German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the context of meetings both of NATO and of the EC , was demanding swift recognition to avoid the creation of " uncertainties " . |
| 9 | I turned my head and , partially blinded by my chaos of hair , saw Leon was kneeling naked at my back . |
| 10 | ‘ Like the good doctor Scawsby , I was completing certain errands — Scawsby was buying medicines for the Queen , ’ he yawned , ‘ I , of course , for the Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 11 | National Office was producing new packs as soon as possible and these would be distributed free to tutors . |
| 12 | I then asked John whether in recent years America was producing good literature , and what he thought of popular authors such as James Michener . |
| 13 | By late 1874 it was producing various types of coloured printing papers , as well as newsprint , on a 54-inch machine . |
| 14 | Word spread that he was producing custom-build detectors able to meet the most demanding requirements , and the foundations of the Garrett legend had been laid . |
| 15 | Recognizing that selecting the fabric according to the house was producing outstanding results , Laura encouraged Jane Clifford to oversee the decoration of both a four-storey Victorian London house and a Cotswold stone farmhouse . |
| 16 | In the period when these first marine invertebrates were evolving , between 600 and 1000 million years ago , erosion of the continents was producing great expanses of mud and sand on the sea bed around the continental margins . |
| 17 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 18 | Carol said the centre and its staff could monitor if a particular department was producing repeated cases of a particular injury or illness , and make recommendations about how the problem could be solved . |
| 19 | He was using scented woods : white cedar , resinous palm . |
| 20 | I could also see the colour of paint I was using due to the pearly-white bristles . |
| 21 | He was using standard medical terms . |
| 22 | I was using regular for about two years after that until I was sent down . |
| 23 | It was also suggested that he was using Interior Ministry files to discredit political opponents , and thereby promote the Czechoslovakian People 's Party to which he belonged , in the lead-up to the June elections . |
| 24 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 25 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 26 | Next , but to a much lower degree , was using personal abilities to the full " . |
| 27 | A man who was using private land as an unofficial scrap-yard and heavy goods vehicle base has been asked to get the site cleared up . |
| 28 | In DPP v K , above , the accused , a 15-year-old schoolboy , was using sulphuric acid in an experiment at school . |
| 29 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 30 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |