Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah 's sister Mary was to remain the spinster of the family , but seems to have been equally comfortably-off ; when times were hard and shops were perpetually falling vacant through lack of trade in the 1820s , Mary dodged around from one location to another like an enterprising little businesswoman . |
| 2 | It appeared that when this alliance of powerful forces realized that some legalistic gloss over their environmental vandalism was necessary or desirable , not because they wanted it but because the public were increasingly becoming aware of pollution , they actively encouraged the legislature to formulate a bill which created the illusion of controlling corporations . |
| 3 | He was already feeling ill by Christmas , but nevertheless he was writing extraordinarily rapidly and by 1 January 1941 he sent a first draft of the poem , tentatively entitled " Dry Salvages " , to John Hayward . |
| 4 | For example one client lived in ‘ appalling , dirty conditions ’ , in a house which was rapidly becoming unfit for habitation , and with a companion who was becoming ‘ more frequently drunk and incontinent ’ . |
| 5 | She was still feeling pleased with life when they crossed the bridge over the river Windrush and entered Swinbrook village . |
| 6 | The computer screen was still going crazy in front of them , but after a while it slowed down . |
| 7 | In Britain , Huxley introduced this kind of physiology from France and Germany from the 1850s ; and in the last quarter of the century his pupils ( trained in South Kensington , in what became Imperial College ) filled chairs in British universities , where the field was now becoming separated from medicine . |