Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right at the beginning someone said they were enjoying life at the moment because they were able to do what they wanted to do in Scotland . |
| 2 | As though they were seeing actors on a stage , Seb and Melody watched as one of the two riders suddenly kneed his horse forward . |
| 3 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 4 | As early as 1963 Cubans were helping Algeria in a border conflict with Morocco . |
| 5 | There were cooking facilities on the boat ? |
| 6 | The Congress of People 's Deputies voted overwhelmingly in favour of renaming the Russian Federation ‘ Russia ’ , but within minutes members from the republics which make up the huge state were demanding restoration of the word ‘ federation ’ . |
| 7 | However , there was substantial US Congressional opposition to a free trade pact with Mexico ; the US unions and the citrus and textile industries were drawing attention to the job losses which such an agreement could entail for the USA , while environmental groups lobbied to warn of the implications of Mexico 's less stringent controls on industry . |
| 8 | By 5pm , the bridal pair were speeding south to the Princess 's Gatcombe Park estate in the Cotswolds . |
| 9 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 10 | But another quite plausible explanation presents itself : here was a lady whose role in life was changing , whose function as a mother and whose status — if we may call it that — as a widow were becoming things of the past . |
| 11 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 12 | Nearly 40 years ago these two were trading bullets over the river Potong-Gang , and sometimes it is not far short of hostilities when they trade shots on the pitch . |
| 13 | Under s393(9) , excess charges on income arising in the final accounting period of a vendor company can be deducted as if they were trading losses for the purpose of carry-back or carry-across of losses , whereas charges on income can usually be deducted only in the accounting period in which they are paid ( though excess charges on income can be group relieved where the vendor is a member of a group of companies within s402 TA 1988 ) . |
| 14 | Civil engineers were checking damage at the site yesterday . |
| 15 | I thought , well , they were trumpeting Ade for the gold medal . |
| 16 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 17 | They were disputing strategies for the resistance and drinking red wine from France — sour claret , which had proved hard to sell . |
| 18 | ‘ There are no allegations that any of these were selling information or that there was any fraud involved but they were causing chaos on a scale that could n't be imagined , ’ Mr Richardson said earlier . |
| 19 | Such divisions of opinion were causing difficulties in the functioning of local medical committees . |
| 20 | They were causing distress to the firm 's staff and amounted to a nuisance . |
| 21 | The birds had fallen silent , but every now and then there were rustling noises in the undergrowth as creatures , disturbed by their passing , scrambled to cover . |
| 22 | The trees were rustling silver in the moonlight and the garden , as always , waved its grass nonchalantly , trying to suggest that nothing was going on . |
| 23 | in spite of continuing claims of IT skill shortages in 1984 , one-third of students completing IT Advanced Courses did not have a job to go to and were seeking employment at the end of their courses ; |
| 24 | Five or six stones had toppled from the pile and were lying half-buried in the snow , and some red and white cloth streamers that had been tied to a branch of the tree fluttered slightly in the breeze , torn and faded from the wind and rain . |
| 25 | Based on information from some source within the government , both ABC and NBC were researching stories on the DEA connection [ Coleman remembers ] . |
| 26 | They were compiling information for a guide to the Great British pub-goer . |
| 27 | But he warned that poorly constructed facilities were presenting problems for the industry in the future . |
| 28 | Well , next morning we were cleaning silver in the butler 's pantry and the bell rang calling us to breakfast and this is where the fun began . |
| 29 | The Daughters would n't have enough water with them to waste on her , but the children were shovelling sand at the woman , trying to smother the flames . |
| 30 | A little further on they had to skirt an area where a gang of workmen were shovelling rubble onto a lorry . |