Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murder victims Julie Godwin , mother of a young child , and Elizabeth Over , both 30 , were holidaying at a remote bush camp close to the Mozambique border in Zululand . |
| 2 | ‘ Their letter relates to an earlier position when we were looking at a phased opening because we had not identified full resources , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 4 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 5 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 6 | Israeli police have shot dead twenty one Arabs in Jerusalem , and injured one hundred others who were protesting at a planned march by hard line Jews . |
| 7 | Two chambermaids were standing at a respectful distance , watching his efforts in some awe . |
| 8 | They were standing at a collapsible map table Schellenberg had erected , the plans of St Mary 's Priory spread before them . |
| 9 | They were sitting at a round table . |
| 10 | IXI describes the software as a virtual workspace — the product enables users to operate and work in a windowing environment that extends well beyond the physical space constraint of their monitor , as if they were sitting at a huge screen . |
| 11 | And we were living in very a abnormal times , and women were snatching at a little bit of happiness they could get , you know this is what it was . |
| 12 | They were dining at a common table , and a man sitting opposite to them begged to differ . |
| 13 | Her head , which was rotating at a different speed and a contrary motion to her brushing arm , reminded him of a duck in a shooting gallery . |
| 14 | And sometimes — ’ She looked away from Ben towards the corner of the room where a picture was hanging at a slight angle , and her head moved to one side as if to see it better . |
| 15 | Although I was walking at a normal pace the impact stunned me . |
| 16 | A faint smile crossed Lancaster 's face , as though he was laughing at a cruel joke in dubious taste . |
| 17 | Having released Gary , Nails was swimming at a phenomenal speed after another victim . |
| 18 | She was picking at a loose cotton in the hem of her smock . |
| 19 | Woolley was looking at a large-scale map , and drinking Guinness . |
| 20 | He was looking at a beautiful textbook about racehorses that Arthur had laid out on the floor . |
| 21 | ‘ In 1346 the population of Europe comprised eighty million people , and was growing at a rapid rate . |
| 22 | Half a mile , and he was right up my arse and I was going at a far pace |
| 23 | She was pointing at a massive crane inching its way down Heymouth Brae . |
| 24 | Mr Soames said that whatever the state of liberalisation elsewhere in Europe , the French market was moving at a pheneomenal rate . |
| 25 | On 29 July , while I was teaching at a secondary school near London , I got married to . |
| 26 | After all , he was teaching at a Christian school . ’ |
| 27 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 28 | During April the movement of magma within the volcano was indicated by a bulge which began to develop on its northeastern flank ; by 23 April this had grown to 100 m and was expanding at a daily rate of 1.5 m . |
| 29 | Consistently the view was presented that one had to feel that the job which one was doing at a particular time could be related to some end product . |
| 30 | It says if it was travelling at a constant speed of fifty miles an hour . |