Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 212 ) , and submitted that when High Court judges sit as visitors to the Inns of Court on disciplinary appeals they were merely acting as the final tier in the same disciplinary process . |
| 2 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 3 | On the contrary , it is an extremely common condition in post-war English primary education , and the agents of PNP policy in Leeds were merely conforming to the general tendency . |
| 4 | I did n't say much at those early stewards ' meetings , but realised very quickly that many of the very excellent people present were somewhat lacking in the ordinary muscle a steward requires to carry out his job quietly and efficiently . |
| 5 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 6 | He felt detached , as if he was floating high up above them and the executioners were only playing with the useless bundle of flesh that had once been his body . |
| 7 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
| 8 | We did n't have the finances to run a proper test programme and we were just falling behind the other teams . |
| 9 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 10 | Erm you know when you 're th we were just talking about the upper room , and erm and the great wind that was noise that was felt . |
| 11 | By the 1780s , when the population of Manchester township was about 40,000 , observers were already commenting upon the growing gulf between a small group of self-made , wealthy factory owners and the mass of the labouring poor . |
| 12 | ( Cassettes of the album were already filtering into the higher regions of the music press ) . |
| 13 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 14 | As they headed off on their Whitsun holiday , backbenchers were already muttering about the next shake-up . |
| 15 | There were more wreaths than she would have expected and the flowers were already wilting in the merciless sun . |
| 16 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 17 | Both population and employment were already falling in the former London County Council area between 1951 and 1961 , and the process intensified in all cities after 1966 . |
| 18 | Companies were asked whether or not they were already selling to the Japanese market . |
| 19 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 20 | By then , warnings were already blowing in the post-imperial winds of change that the all-regular Army might soon be overstretched trying to maintain stability in the final stages of Britain 's withdrawal from Empire . |
| 21 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 22 | Some bees were already crawling on the early clover . |
| 23 | Iceland is one of the youngest islands in the world : when the first primates were already clambering through the African jungles , a cataclysmic volcanic eruption of part of the mid-Atlantic fault line brought a whole new land-mass into being . |
| 24 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 25 | But reforming ideas were already circulating from the early 1520s . |
| 26 | The Scots were meanwhile retreating along the same route by which they had advanced , but to a very different reception . |
| 27 | I wore my dark glasses even for these few moments , as my blue eyes were always straining in the brilliant light . |
| 28 | Author Penny Junor — widely regarded as the royal writer closest to the prince — said the latest allegations were deliberately damaging to the Royal Family . |
| 29 | So we were forever heading for the rocky interior of continents , to regions of crags and barrenness . |
| 30 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |