Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The shares were divided among three groups of managers — the 50 most senior , some 250 middle managers and the remaining 700 who were running large contracts , or a group of units . |
| 2 | In 1981-82 , 3,800 tonnes were imported , and by 1987-88 we were importing 80,000 tonnes , thereby almost becoming one of the major toxic dustbins of the world . |
| 3 | I had n't realized how much I was missing female friendship . |
| 4 | By late 1874 it was producing various types of coloured printing papers , as well as newsprint , on a 54-inch machine . |
| 5 | At Canton his early success , as commercial agent for opium merchants in India , led to his association with Magniac & Company , and by 1826 he was controlling that firm 's Canton operations . |
| 6 | But by 1979 he was selling enough stock from his Mum 's garden shed to move into the Wanneroo premises . |
| 7 | He admired the stonework of the school , the windows and even pointed out how quaint it was having two handles on each side of the door . |
| 8 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 9 | The older man pointed to the younger who was loading tangled nets into the small , brightly painted fishing boat , Island Spirit . |
| 10 | By September 1940 he was taking British survival for granted and predicting American intervention . |
| 11 | From 1969 it was awarding honorary degrees . |
| 12 | The city 's Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität was founded only after Baron von Stein 's reforms in 1810 , yet by 1870 it was setting international standards in history , classics , physics , chemistry , and medicine . |
| 13 | Her care of the pups was so haphazard that Buddie often fed them milk from a baby 's bottle to make sure they were getting enough nourishment . |
| 14 | By July 1909 he was making successful flights of several miles , and in August was awarded the Aeronautical Society 's silver medal . |
| 15 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 16 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 17 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 18 | In one year alone she was overseeing twelve undergraduates , of whom eleven emerged with first-class degrees . |
| 19 | Berserk he was playing last night . |
| 20 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 21 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 22 | The US balance of payments capital account deficit in the early 1960s which was undermining foreign confidence in the dollar , encouraged the US authorities to restrict overseas lending by resident US banks and the domestic financing of direct investment ( multinational plants ) abroad . |
| 23 | 17032 married white women aged 25–39 years at entry during 1968–74 who were taking oral contraceptives or using an intrauterine device or diaphragm . |
| 24 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 25 | ‘ Quit using those big words to impress people , ’ when she had n't been aware she was using big words . |
| 26 | Cowley 's meeting with the Commissioner had been successful : CI5 were fully invested with the authority to both guard Stone 's family , and seek out the nature of the person or persons unknown who were harassing that family . |
| 27 | By the 1980s they were achieving 400-day weights of more than 500kg with bulls , 375kg with steers and 320kg with heifers and the Lincoln Red is now Britain 's largest traditional beef breed with a capacity for rapid live-weight gains and early maturity . |
| 28 | By 1915 he was advising one commentator ‘ to treat my verse … as my essential writings , & my prose as my accidental ’ . |
| 29 | Inside he felt a warm glow , relieved that at last he was getting some answers . |
| 30 | Beginning with 8 apprentice girls and three journeymen tutors , by 1863 it was employing 14 women . |