Example sentences of "[that] they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 2 | Soon their captors would be out again , driven into the night by the terror above their heads , but now Allen and Marian by keeping the Tower behind them could be sure that they were moving in the direction of the forest . |
| 3 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 4 | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase , the oldest wood in England . |
| 5 | A fresh squall tore the rainwater off the road surface , cascading it down so that they were riding in the inside of a waterfall as Trent powered onward in the lee of the embankment . |
| 6 | Only 12 per cent of the ‘ No ’ voters — 6 per cent of all voters — admitted that they were voting against the president , and this by no means implies that they would necessarily have otherwise voted ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 7 | The pupils were allowed to think that they were listening to the voices of 12 different speakers , but actually there were only 9 . |
| 8 | If you or any member of your family suffer death , bodily injury or illness arising from negligence of our suppliers ( other than air and sea carriers performing any domestic , internal or international carriage of whatsoever kind for whom we accept no liability ) , their sub=contractors , servants and/or agents , we will accept responsibility provided that they were acting within the scope of or in the course of their employment when the accident occurred . |
| 9 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 10 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 11 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 12 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 13 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 14 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 15 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 16 | of patients surveyed were either satisfied or very satisfied with the service that they were receiving at the Northern General hospital trust — an impressive result . |
| 17 | There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him . |
| 18 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 19 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 20 | It was n't Lloyds fault , it was just that they were complying with the original P E P regulations about reporting and , and er so on , so they had to charge more . |
| 21 | At the height of the romance , the pair were inseparable and it was obvious to family and friends that they were heading for the altar . |
| 22 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 23 | Er and then I heard from Australia that they were going into the engineering exhibition in Melbourne and I offered them er a mobile display and they came back with one or two added ideas and so I changed the specification again . |
| 24 | They were so green that they were going to the CAB to find out about unions . |
| 25 | It was Christmas 1781 when news filtered through that they were celebrating at the Red Lion at Bishopsgate ( an inn later to be made famous by Dickens 's Old Curiosity Shop ) . |
| 26 | They said first they would never race again , then that they were withdrawing for the season , then that it was unpatriotic of the Austrians to run a grand prix while their hero was near to death . |
| 27 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 28 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 29 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 30 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |