Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] setting [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going . |
| 2 | Today the organisers were setting up . |
| 3 | The swimmers and sunbathers had all gone , getting ready for dinner , and the groundsmen were setting up the tables and lighting the barbecue . |
| 4 | Statement of objectives : clear statements of what departments were setting out to do were required . |
| 5 | While the mechanics were setting up the cars , she thought she 'd go outside into one of the empty stands to try to find a breath of wind , anything rather than standing in the back of the pits in the high humidity which made her skin glow . |
| 6 | When we heard on the grapevine that one of our four-legged friends was setting up her own fan club , it certainly gave us paws for thought . |
| 7 | One of his innovations was setting up a group which meets on Wednesdays for a five-hour session of yoga , baby massage , lunch and discussion — attended by an assortment of pregnant women , new mothers , midwives and obstetricians . |
| 8 | At around the same time the police were setting out to interview Pascoe again . |
| 9 | They finished and we were backstage and our guys were setting up our stuff and all these bikers in the audience started to chant , ‘ Poofter , poofter , ’ which was aimed at me , and we were thinking , ‘ Oh know , this is ugly . ’ |
| 10 | Into this I placed little ‘ oily ’ pools where cancer cells were setting up their colonies and I imagined the cells themselves as amoeba or tadpole like creatures , smooth , slippery and with large eyes . |