Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason , however , was the reallocation of oil supplies for use in the Soviet Union ( where fuel shortages were currently causing serious harvesting problems ) or for export for much-needed hard currency . |
| 2 | At that time both parties were clearly giving top priority to defence . |
| 3 | On subsequent nights it became more difficult to prevent REM sleep , especially in the early hours , and the number of wakenings necessary increased night by night until by the fifth and sixth nights subjects were hardly getting any sleep at all . |
| 4 | Since the onset of the debt crisis in the early 1980s more than 70 countries were currently having serious debt problems . |
| 5 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 6 | Those simian , orange-furred Jokaero were forever improvising ingenious equipment , not necessarily in the same way twice , though with an accent on miniaturization . |
| 7 | It reverted to being a draught animal in many places , losing its beef productivity , though in some areas its old milking abilities were encouraged and in due course the dairies of Cheshire came to rely on Longhorn milk for cheese-making ; from 1839 onwards Longhorns were frequently winning major beef prizes too , right through to the 1880s . |
| 8 | [ The hospital ancillary workers were also taking industrial action against Callaghan 's 5 per cent pay norm . ] |
| 9 | Mrs Parfitt , 47 , and Helen were still cuddling each other in the back seat . |
| 10 | In the second half of the year the major Japanese banks were already concentrating more effort in Singapore following a downturn in lending to China and a simultaneous rise in business with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 11 | Liz and Owen were clearly making good progress , and , apart from a few tearful moments , the twins had happily settled down , regarding their trips to the hospital as part of their daily routine . |
| 12 | Thereafter , though things were still churning round midfield , there were a few more moves and shots on goal worth shouting about . |
| 13 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 14 | ( The Lo Lifes ' neighbouring gang the Deceptions were meanwhile terrorising entire subway cars with hammers . ) |
| 15 | people were still using these sort of light fittings ? |
| 16 | Elsewhere , lawyers were already doing good business . |
| 17 | But that the the leader of the house effectively made a statement in Prime Minister 's questions on the same issue , misleading the house into believing that the government were actually applying this money to patient care rather than to meeting their own political incompetence . |
| 18 | When , as here , figures are standardized between different countries , the UK exhibited the worst overall unemployment rates in 1982 , but France and Italy were latterly suffering worse unemployment . |
| 19 | As late as the 1950s bicycles were still providing Ministerial transport on the Circuit . |
| 20 | But Faraday 's puritanism , and his skills acquired in his father 's smithy and his own bookbinding apprenticeship , were not typical ; and entrepreneurs like Frederick Accum were already selling ready-made apparatus to those who preferred to buy it . |
| 21 | By 1940 at least sixty-eight local authorities were already using some sort of intelligence test ; about half these also used standardised attainment tests . |
| 22 | The lamps were still burning either side of the front vestibule . |
| 23 | Its report published in July last year , The Cost of Care in Hostels , concluded : ‘ Even hostels offering relatively low care were still offering some care , and had to spend more than could be explained simply in terms of the costs of accommodation . ’ |
| 24 | On the continent men were soon killing each other . |
| 25 | Of course there were the usual fights , but one regiment soon found that its men were generally taking more punishment than they were giving out . |
| 26 | Yeo rubbed the back of his neck irritably , and reached for his coffee , downing two cups while McLeish and Catherine Crane were still passing each other milk and sugar . |
| 27 | All 50 assembly points were reportedly experiencing acute food shortages . |
| 28 | International links were also receiving more attention , Courtney told an Anglo-Indian conference of science policy-makers in Manchester . |
| 29 | In construing the Act without reference to the Parliamentary proceedings , he treats it as decisive that in this case the taxpayers ' children were only occupying surplus accommodation and that it lay in the discretion of the school whether to grant such benefit to the taxpayers . |
| 30 | Both children were always asking each other : Shall I tell you ? |