Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVEN Newcastle United fans were still recovering in hospital last night after a double fatal accident on the A66 trans-Pennine road . |
| 2 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 3 | His mouth was wet and his eyes were still flicking from side to side . |
| 4 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 5 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 7 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 8 | Yet to do this was proving increasingly expensive , for articles of luxury were fast rising in price . |
| 9 | The Last Movie was finally going into production . |
| 10 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 11 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 12 | Israeli politicians and officials claimed that the PLF attack proved that the PLO was still engaging in terrorist activities despite Arafat 's December 1987 statement renouncing all forms of terrorism [ see p. 36438 ] . |
| 13 | The significant features of Arazi 's victory over Supermec and River Majesty were that the knee operation carried out last November appeared to have no effects and , this time , the colt was not racing on medication , as he had been when winning the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile . |
| 14 | He said the dead woman 's car was not indicating to turn right but Miss Gynn said she was certain Tracey was . |
| 15 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 16 | Its effect was particularly damaging in relation to the recurrent tragedies of death in childhood , which are examined in the next chapter . |
| 17 | Edward was still living at home , preparing without a coach for the Civil Service examination . |
| 18 | Wilson 's decision to found his new union on his own north-east coast was not lacking in rationality . |
| 19 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 20 | Gurder was still arguing with Topknot when they got back . |
| 21 | The rift was now growing between Parliament , which favoured the establishment of Presbyterianism , and the army , which proposed that all forms of Christian worship except Roman Catholicism should be tolerated . |
| 22 | He glanced down the slope wishing he had brought boots ; his shoes were already letting in mud . |
| 23 | Cameron and Menzies found themselves moving out of the door in a file of soldiers whose feet were already walking in step . |
| 24 | This wreck was the Small Gains , which had gone down more than twenty-live years before , when hundreds of barges were still working under sail . |
| 25 | As they climbed over the hedge , he was struck by the beauty of the day ; the hedgerows were just coming into leaf and the meadow was dotted with buttercups and daisies . |
| 26 | Mr Cook added that Canada and other countries were rapidly moving toward merger agreements and that DRT would boast a fee income in excess of $3.3bn in the current year . |
| 27 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 28 | I strongly disagree with the letter from Stephen Loveridge ( HAS March 23 ) who claimed that MPs voting for the recent Bill to outlaw fox hunting were not voting against cruelty . |
| 29 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 30 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |