Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main substance to their complaints was that at £26 a ticket they were not receiving value for money . |
| 2 | It had to succeed in selling , against Japanese competition , the product left to it by a conventionally organised British motor cycle industry which had already admitted defeat ; and sales were not keeping pace with production . |
| 3 | Out in the kitchen preparations were already taking place in readiness for the lunch-time trade . |
| 4 | Firstly , the team had become increasingly aware of the need to evaluate its work since external researchers were already conducting research into child sexual abuse investigations and case conferences . |
| 5 | Below , in the mathematician 's trench , they were already fighting hand to hand . |
| 6 | As discussions were held on the formation of a government , deliberations were also taking place within Congress ( I ) on the issue of the next Prime Minister . |
| 7 | I mean , how do we know you were n't playing Stairway To Heaven , Smoke On The Water or Eruption ? |
| 8 | In any case , Twoflower was delightedly taking picture after picture of people engaged in what he described as typical activities , and since a quarter-rhinu would subsequently change hands ‘ for their trouble ’ a tail of bemused and happy nouveaux-riches was soon following him in case this madman exploded in a shower of gold . |
| 9 | Although he was on Oxfords , or even Ansons , he was nevertheless getting experience at night and this was important if he wanted to become a Mosquito Pathfinder . |
| 10 | They had been accepted for admission before the onset of dementia ( most sheltered housing associations would not accept a new tenant who was already showing evidence of dementia ) , but with increasing age in the sheltered housing population cases are likely to occur more frequently . |
| 11 | What was different in October 1962 — and accounted for the drop in the " yes " vote and the bitterness of the debate — was that this time the referendum was not taking place in wartime . |
| 12 | Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance . |
| 13 | The Herbarium photocopier was still giving cause for concern in respect of a lack of information and instruction on its use . |
| 14 | The plight of some 600 detainees acknowledged by the authorities was also giving cause for concern . |
| 15 | The state of the earth 's physical resources was also giving cause for concern . |
| 16 | Dieter Kaufmann , 37 , a drug addict with a prison record who was reportedly undergoing treatment for schizophrenia , was arrested at the scene although two others ran away . |
| 17 | Hennessy moved in closer now that he knew that he was n't placing communication at risk . |
| 18 | By 1987 the condition of the church was again giving cause for concern . |
| 19 | On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department . |
| 20 | On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department . |