Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the five painters who had signed the manifesto only Severini , who had been in Paris since 1905 , had any claim to be considered avant-garde , whereas the others were mostly working in a debased divisionist technique and relied for novelty on the rather obvious imagery of their subject-matter . |
| 2 | 212 ) , and submitted that when High Court judges sit as visitors to the Inns of Court on disciplinary appeals they were merely acting as the final tier in the same disciplinary process . |
| 3 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 4 | On the contrary , it is an extremely common condition in post-war English primary education , and the agents of PNP policy in Leeds were merely conforming to the general tendency . |
| 5 | I did n't say much at those early stewards ' meetings , but realised very quickly that many of the very excellent people present were somewhat lacking in the ordinary muscle a steward requires to carry out his job quietly and efficiently . |
| 6 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 7 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 8 | He felt detached , as if he was floating high up above them and the executioners were only playing with the useless bundle of flesh that had once been his body . |
| 9 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 10 | And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture . |
| 11 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 12 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
| 13 | He said that if the Tories had policies that were not working for the Scottish economy then the silence of the SNP since last year 's general election told the real story of what independence for Scotland would really mean . |
| 14 | Reports of original work , headed often by the names of many joint authors , became too full of jargon to be understood even by trained scientists who were not working in the particular field . |
| 15 | We were just looking for a suitable warren to send our ferrets down to flush out the occupants . |
| 16 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
| 17 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
| 18 | We did n't have the finances to run a proper test programme and we were just falling behind the other teams . |
| 19 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 20 | But er if they were just working for a single day , it was long day up till ten o'clock at night in a harvest you know . |
| 21 | Erm you know when you 're th we were just talking about the upper room , and erm and the great wind that was noise that was felt . |
| 22 | By the 1780s , when the population of Manchester township was about 40,000 , observers were already commenting upon the growing gulf between a small group of self-made , wealthy factory owners and the mass of the labouring poor . |
| 23 | Suggesting to some , they were already acting like a married couple . |
| 24 | Reading between the lines , it was evident that de Gaulle was seeking to encourage those individuals in the political establishment — such as President Coty and the deputy prime minister , Guy Mollet — who were already moving towards a Gaullist solution , but that he was not yet willing to negotiate with the collective leadership of the Republic . |
| 25 | ( Cassettes of the album were already filtering into the higher regions of the music press ) . |
| 26 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 27 | As they headed off on their Whitsun holiday , backbenchers were already muttering about the next shake-up . |
| 28 | There were more wreaths than she would have expected and the flowers were already wilting in the merciless sun . |
| 29 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 30 | Both population and employment were already falling in the former London County Council area between 1951 and 1961 , and the process intensified in all cities after 1966 . |