Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I did n't know better , I 'd say Bolan and Starr were obviously partaking a bit too copiously at this time . |
| 2 | Actually , the Blox were furtively retrieving a windsurfer sail they had tied to the anchor chain with an injudiciously big bowline , allowing the sail to sink into some 40 feet of water . |
| 3 | The first true Ferrari was seen at Piacenza in 1947 and by the time the World Championship was introduced in 1950 , Ferraris were soon gaining a reputation for being a reliable car . |
| 4 | The brothers were now offering an annuity for life of £150 , ‘ no condition whatsoever being annexed to it ’ . |
| 5 | The cheapest rate I came across was right down at the southern tip of the country where Invercargill 's Southland Aero Club were virtually giving a Tomahawk away for NZ$80 per hour solo ( £24.25 ) . |
| 6 | But since response from ministers by the 1840s was extremely circumspect the reformers were probably making a virtue of necessity . |
| 7 | The parents were therefore giving a reward contingent upon Joanne 's production of the undesirable behaviours . |
| 8 | Even as American investment slumped from £100 million annually at its peak to around £30 million at the beginning or the 1970s , the US companies were still doing a lot more for the British film industry than the British seemed able to do for themselves . |
| 9 | But if rising construction and running costs were already casting a shadow over the economics of the British PWR programme , then a parallel process had significantly benefited the comparative advantage of coal-fired generation . |
| 10 | The circumstances that led to Britain 's growing intervention were also provoking a response among Egyptians . |
| 11 | In the top of a drainpipe next to our sitting-room , two sparrows were frantically building a nest . |
| 12 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 13 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 14 | When the committee system of the ASEA is considered as a whole , it is apparent that members were consciously operating an employment policy based upon casework , the practice most conspicuously associated with the COS , which , given the origins of the Association , is by no means unexpected . |
| 15 | The Germans were certainly getting a pasting . |
| 16 | DETECTIVES were yesterday investigating a blaze which caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a building firm 's storage base . |
| 17 | Detectives were yesterday examining a tape of the anonymous caller and letters claiming responsibility for the arson attack on the two buildings , which housed more than 40 Turkish workers . |
| 18 | In obtaining their most precious substances from remote environments the Danubian peasants were only following a pattern set long previously by Upper Palaeolithic man . |
| 19 | The despair in the air was particularly dense at the present time , though its monetarist perpetrators were now fighting a rearguard action against the rest of Europe . |
| 20 | What was most important , though , was that these socially more distinguished patrons were indeed creating a fashion ; they were sanctioning movie-going not only for other less bold middle-class families but also for all that vast number of people caught in the twilight zone between middle-class comfort and the lumpenproletariat . |
| 21 | Ace and Johannsen were clearly taking a toll : the enemy 's fire was beginning to lessen . |
| 22 | Last night police were also investigating a letter bomb delivered to the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness and rendered safe by a bomb disposal team . |
| 23 | Many of the ‘ underground ’ at this period in social history were consciously making a journey towards a new spiritual growth ; and this , as Furlong ( 1973 : 106 ) suggests , |
| 24 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 25 | The rumours about Swift were already reaching a crescendo on every stockmarket in the world . |
| 26 | Even allowing for the fact that Orphism , as the most recent artistic novelty , was attracting the attention of a press and public made restless and sensation-hungry by the numerous artistic upheavals which the twentieth century had already witnessed , the fact is that by 1914 the abstract tendencies in European painting were already assuming an importance second only to that of Cubism from which they had largely sprung . |
| 27 | She pushed her way through the crowds to the back of the cab , where another group of nomes were already nomehandling a plank into position , and scrambled up to where Dorcas was trying to make himself heard in the middle of an excited crowd . |
| 28 | There were to be brief respites from the prolonged drought , one of which Gould was to be most fortunate to encounter , but the settlers were still facing a period of unparalleled hardship . |
| 29 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 30 | It was as if those brawnier possessors of more organs were impatiently awaiting a signal , a pheromone in the air … |