Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 2 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |
| 3 | But I knew this was wishing for the impossible . |
| 4 | Déjà vu was one thing , she thought irritably , but this was bordering on the ridiculous ! |
| 5 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 6 | All of this was happening alongside the steady decline of the Luftwaffe which did not enjoy our operational tour scheme and rest periods . |
| 7 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |
| 8 | Although this feat was probably know to McBride , he most likely was responding to the increasing image control evident in a painting like ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ as a radical departure from the work he had encountered when he first began to review her exhibitions in 1923 . |
| 9 | Buttercups , daisies , cranesbill , the red purple of clover , all were pushing through the new grass of the meadows . |
| 10 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 11 | At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more were missing in the Romanian town of Focsani , 160 km north-east of Bucharest , after an earthquake struck on May 30 . |
| 12 | It was a key period , when the classical was moving towards the romantic . |
| 13 | At any one time five were working in the Criminal Division and in the Queen 's Bench Divisional Court . |
| 14 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 15 | While Jube stood guard over Grant and the two youngsters , the other two truckers spent a fruitless few minutes checking to see whether the dangerous oriental was lurking in the immediate vicinity . |
| 16 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 17 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 18 | One was in the cockpit , at the controls ; the other two were standing on the rear platform , firing blasters at random towards the clifftop and overseeing the automatic fire of the hoverspeeder 's cannon . |
| 19 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 20 | As Martin Walker says : ‘ The Oxford of the late Sixties was going through the heady delights of the sexual revolution . |
| 21 | Clearly something strange was happening to the Edwardian Conservative party : but does one need to label it as a flirtation with ‘ proto-Fascism ’ ? |
| 22 | The driver of the 10pm LMS passenger and mail train seemingly overran a home signal at danger and plunged into the rear of the 9.15pm Oxley sidings to Bristol GWR fitted goods before finally colliding with another freight , the 4.45 Westerleigh to Gloucester empties , that was passing on the opposite line . |
| 23 | Neither was listening to the other talk and I thought it would be a good moment to fetch the rhubarb tart . |
| 24 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |
| 25 | 12 Grace Leybourne buttressed such arguments in Education and the Birth Rate by demonstrating that the middle classes and the intelligent were paying for the high costs of education by family limitation at the dysgenic expense of the national interest . |
| 26 | Work on this project is well in hand and diesel mechanical shunter 03.062 was operating with the permanent staff . |
| 27 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 28 | Not these Tiller girls of course , although the most senior was performing in the forties . |