Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dietary concentrations of other minerals and of vitamins were according to the AIN-76 recommendations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity . |
| 6 | The Turkish government declared that the security of its diplomats was threatened following the screening in March of a programme on West German television , which claimed that West German security services had uncovered up to 30 Turkish secret police , posing as diplomats , who were spying on the 1,500,000 Turks in West Germany . |
| 7 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 8 | The Fiction adds a little to one 's understanding of what he was becoming in the eighteen months immediately before his courtship of Helen Noble . |
| 9 | He was looking at the two Apaches . |
| 10 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 11 | He wants to appeal to anyone who knows what Mr Garvey was doing over the 4 days to contact the police . |
| 12 | The killers apparently knew this and shot him while he was travelling between the two sites without a police escort . |
| 13 | He was staring at the two men at the nearby table . |
| 14 | It is common ground that there was no ‘ good cause ’ within the meaning of section 34 ; the university was relying on the three months ' notice term contained in the letter of appointment coupled with the provision in section 34(3) that Mr. Page 's tenure was to be subject to the terms of the appointment . |
| 15 | He was screaming at the two men , trying to frighten them . |