Example sentences of "[conj] were [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 2 | Seb 's statement brought a chorus of derision from a couple of navvies who had entered the tent behind him and were listening to the conversation . |
| 3 | : A bunch of us whose ages ranged from 151/2 to 17 were in our billet waiting to go to on parade and were listening to the billet radio system . |
| 4 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 5 | He could not see , nor think what that link might have been , beyond what was an evident fact to him : that they were mythagos created by Tallis , and were responding to the mind which had engendered them . |