Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as doubts were beginning to be felt about Britain 's economic vulnerability , the working people were increasingly organizing in trade unions to try to secure , or guarantee , their share of the progress . |
| 2 | When people were already living in towns and storing grain from year to year , the crops hit upon a new strategy for propagating their own kind . |
| 3 | She had a strongly defined concept of what was Real and what was not , did William 's nan , and some people were just playing at life . |
| 4 | As of late February Monrovia was said to be calm , with emergency food and other supplies flowing in , and some shops reopening , although relief agencies emphasised that people were still dying from starvation . |
| 5 | According to a WHO report published on Oct. 16 , almost 3,000,000 people were still dying from tuberculosis every year . |
| 6 | According to the Professor , people were virtually living on mountains of asbestos and despite this ‘ gross exposure ’ there was no evidence of people who had contracted mesothelioma , a form of cancer related to asbestos ’ , the Cork Examiner reported . |
| 7 | And so if people had less money in their pockets and they were losing their jobs , what factors can explain why more and more people were actually going on holiday abroad ? |
| 8 | ‘ It was n't funny at the time , of course , because young people were really getting into trouble for being too westernised ’ , she told me . |
| 9 | Everyone in the developed countries around 1970 or so knew that there was both a baby bust and an education explosion going on ; half or more of the young people were now staying in school beyond high school . |
| 10 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |