Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were using a nearby generator to provide lighting and music . |
| 2 | At the corner of the Privy Garden some gas engineers were returning a repaired main to service , flaring the gas to make sure no air had entered it during the work . |
| 3 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 4 | Of course all this change , verve and audacity was enough to give traditional Christians apoplexy , but too many people were having a good time to worry about the consequences of all these changes . |
| 5 | ‘ Sit down , Mr O'Malley , ’ he said in a slow ponderous voice , as though he were inviting a weary traveller to take his ease . |
| 6 | It added that Serb sources said their opponents were making a major effort to capture Mount Caus , which dominates the area , but the Serbs were holding firm . |
| 7 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 8 | Many authorities were making a conscious effort to expand the social group from which their secondary pupils were drawn . |
| 9 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 10 | That means that Woolwich were asserting a legal right to recover the payments in the event of the relevant Regulations being held to be ultra vires , and stating that the payments were made without prejudice to such right . |
| 11 | Well , as Hereford United were battling against on the pitch , behind the scenes West Mercia Police were mounting a major operation to control the crowd and prevent battles off the pitch between rival fans . |
| 12 | Warning was given that the ‘ Reds ’ were planning a violent demonstration to disrupt the proceedings . |
| 13 | This is not proof , of course , that there was no reasonable expectation of trouble ; the late announcement of the ban , however , gave credence to the assumption that it had only been prompted by the Apprentice Boys march , and that the Government , as in Dungannon , was allowing a loyalist organisation to manipulate the situation so that an opposition demonstration would be banned . |
| 14 | Finally , while pancake racers everywhere were rubbing their bruises , a parish church was reviving a centuries-old tradition to mark Shrove Tuesday . |
| 15 | He alleged that Gamsakhurdia was behind the raid on the camp , and announced that he was forming a political party to combat the " fascism " of Gamsakhurdia 's Georgia government . |
| 16 | It was also reported that the US attorney for the District of Columbia was conducting a preliminary inquiry to determine whether transactions at the bank had involved criminal wrongdoing . |
| 17 | Mr Recorder Paul Worsley QC said he was considering a custodial sentence to deter other young drivers from driving recklessly . |
| 18 | I was doing a three-point-turn manoeuvre to get us back onto the road when he woke up , lifted his hat and mumbled : ‘ Where are we ? ’ |
| 19 | While one in ten agreed ICI was doing a fair share to reduce its impact and using its scientific skills to develop ‘ greener ’ products , the environment journalists still rated the company among the worst polluters — alongside British Coal , Fisons , British Nuclear Fuels and Powergen . |
| 20 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 21 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 22 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 23 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 24 | His twisted left leg was bent at the knee , and though the Polynesians are a stoic race , he was fighting a losing battle to stem the tears . |
| 25 | He was making a tremendous effort to appear calm , if possible to be calm . |
| 26 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 27 | At the time my feeling was that David was making a conscious decision to become big .. |
| 28 | When their advance guard was making a hazardous push to secure a new stronghold , the Persian warriors went forward carrying live cats in their arms . |
| 29 | By scorning concert-hall constants , Karajan was making a realistic attempt to put music on film . |
| 30 | When it was learned that Stratford was convening a provincial council to oppose or denounce this annulment , he and other bishops received writs of prohibition forbidding them to do so . |