Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 2 | The priest was dying with a last Gloria on his lips , and Harry , carried away upon a tide of hatred for all things Spanish and all things Catholic , had already sunk the blade into the back of the young hidalgo . |
| 3 | Inventories prove , for example , that turnips were a successful field crop long before Viscount Townshend , that the Cheshire cheese industry was flourishing by the seventeenth century , that Lancastrian and Cumbrian farmers were the first to grow potatoes on a significant scale and that many Pennine hill-farmers relied upon the local markets for their bread corn and malt , for they grew no cereals at all . |
| 4 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 5 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 6 | Ray Hankin , who took temporary charge when the team were heading towards the Fourth Division , was the first applicant . |
| 7 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 8 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 9 | The most exciting thing about the day was getting off the 18th green . |
| 10 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
| 11 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 12 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |
| 13 | Trouble , it seemed , was still in bed ; trouble was recuperating for the next engagement . |
| 14 | Trouble was brewing in the 4th ( Senapati ) Division stationed around Surakarta in east Java . |
| 15 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 16 | Above all , the style of government was changing during the sixteenth century , a change that is reflected in the records of state . |
| 17 | This is proving a vintage year for Cumbrian trainer , Gordon Richards , whose Clever Folly was winning for the fourth time . |
| 18 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 19 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
| 20 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 21 | The golf-bag on its wheeled trolley was at an angle of 45 and the open end was pointing towards the 18th green . |
| 22 | In 1990 , Heritage Minister , David Mellor said the press were drinking at the last chance saloon . |
| 23 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 24 | While part of Polly 's brain noted the fresh fragrance of the soap and minty scent of toothpaste , the other part was registering for the first time the significance of plastic-covered grab-rails in the shower cubicle and on the front of the vanity unit . |
| 25 | I accept the term " growth " on the basis of the probability that both population and ( though this is harder to demonstrate ) productivity were rising during the ninth century . |
| 26 | No one this time was talking about the next fight . |
| 27 | Anglo-Norman literature composed in what became an increasingly distinctive Anglo-Norman dialect of French was flourishing by the second half of the twelfth century . |
| 28 | At this stage two men , unknown to any of us , were introduced by the industrious Anne , whose excited curiosity was increasing by the second . |
| 29 | KF 's core business , however , has always been retailing , although its rank in the market was slipping in the last ten years . |
| 30 | By 1934 the Labour Party was Preparing for the next election and the delegates at Southport resisted the attempts of the Socialist League to change the programme For Socialism and Peace into a radical appeal for a rapid transformation to socialism . |