Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three men in black overcoats and dark glasses were fussing around the long cars and a small crowd had gathered to weep and wonder . |
| 2 | More than half of the comprehensive schools in existence by 1968 were of the orthodox 11–18 variety , and most arrangements were crystallizing around the approved versions of 10/65 . |
| 3 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 4 | The curtains were hanging outside the smashed windows , the whole scene one of desolation . |
| 5 | Now they were rattling between the massive oaks of Glenvinean . |
| 6 | Now the Doctor 's companion , the woman and the android were walking through the dark corridors of the castle , trying to find some means of escape . |
| 7 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 8 | All over the camp in wild panic the huts were emptying as the remaining occupants scrambled for the safety of the hills and the Russian frontier beyond . |
| 9 | Because of the shortages of girls for nursing , many ads were appearing in the daily papers . |
| 10 | Dietary concentrations of other minerals and of vitamins were according to the AIN-76 recommendations . |
| 11 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 12 | But Owen 's bowmen were swarming along the higher shoulders of Bryn Glas and shooting down upon them , and upon the struggling men-at-arms ; and they had the advantage of better positions and better sighting , and skill and marksmanship at least equal . |
| 13 | Crowds of men and women were swarming up the front steps to the three revolving doors . |
| 14 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 15 | We were looking for the reflective eyes of a fox . |
| 16 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 17 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 18 | Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families . |
| 19 | Two NCO drivers from the Field Ambulance were passing through the assembled ranks selling chocolates , buns and cold drinks . |
| 20 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 21 | It seemed that the men were welshing on the Equal Opportunities policy so as to make the paper more attractive to investors . |
| 22 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 23 | As the sun set , pools of darkness were growing in the innumerable dips and hollows . |
| 24 | 12 Grace Leybourne buttressed such arguments in Education and the Birth Rate by demonstrating that the middle classes and the intelligent were paying for the high costs of education by family limitation at the dysgenic expense of the national interest . |
| 25 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
| 26 | The next question to be answered is exactly what details subjects were describing in the different conditions and whether certain specific types of information are related to risk , memory , or both . |
| 27 | Now they were racing through the inner-city suburbs on slick rails . |
| 28 | After he left the sisters , Corbett went out to the stable yard where Ranulf and Maltote were waiting with the two retainers from the porter 's lodge . |
| 29 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 30 | Military vehicles were no rarity in the streets , while press and television maintained a steady flow of information on how things were going on the different fronts . |