Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After seventy years of atheism , religion was re-emerging in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | At least it showed that the girl 's mind was working in the right direction . |
| 3 | Wang Sau-leyan was sitting in the far corner of the room , turning the gift the Ping Tiao had given him in his hands , studying it . |
| 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 | He looked across the sea : a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky . |
| 6 | The cold bleak light was growing in the cloudless sky . |
| 7 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 8 | She liked the nights in the country better ; the mixed smells of the town contained more human corruption : the health of animal dung 's pungency was missing in the ammoniac whiffs from the town culvert , and the touch of the air was never quite as lively as in the yard . |
| 9 | ‘ All you 'd ‘ ave to do is stand in front of 'em and ‘ ope the wind was blowin' in the right direction . ’ |
| 10 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 11 | When the Motor City 's techno scene was dying in the early ‘ 90s , they took hold of the tattered flag and now it stands proud and menacing . |
| 12 | But , as David Beattie , Grampian 's assistant chief constable was speaking in the primary school at New Deer , Aberdeenshire , thieves were proceeding in a westerly direction towards the locus of Newlands Garage , just 300 yards away . |
| 13 | Then , running her eyes along the row of plane trees , she suddenly noticed , for the first time , that a medium-sized dragon was sitting in the upper branches of a particularly fine plane tree and munching a green leaf . |
| 14 | In practice , that would have to be about the level at which sterling was trading in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 15 | Something like a collective opinion was growing in the individual section under the influence of the Left . |
| 16 | She did n't want to feel this way , did n't want to feel as though her body was burning in the hot fires of hell while her soul was dancing in heaven , but she was powerless to resist the erotic magic of the kiss . |
| 17 | The director had told her most of the cast and crew were staying in the same hotel , and a room had been reserved for her there , too . |
| 18 | By the 1870s and 1880s , however , the pendulum was swinging in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | His breath steamed , as though his anger were condensing in the frigid air . |
| 20 | The timing seemed fortuitous , for they expanded just as demand was booming in the Middle East . |
| 21 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
| 22 | Nobody laughed , and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels ' sandals . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The train was running in the open now , the blackness beyond its windows relieved by distant amber lights which seemed to track their progress like the eyes of forest-dwelling creatures fixed on a lonely wayfarer . |
| 25 | Certainly the slave trade was expanding in the early eighteenth century ; more slaves were being bought in Africa than before , and the wars among Africans to provide captives to sell had more of a disturbing effect on the states of West Africa . |
| 26 | Trouble was brewing in the 4th ( Senapati ) Division stationed around Surakarta in east Java . |
| 27 | With most of 1962 and 1963 taken up with stage , television and film work , Crawford could reflect that his career was moving in the right direction . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The firm was investing in the whole insurance industry . |
| 30 | The 22-year old Larne man was devastating in the Baltic country ; indeed , most of his performances on the continent have been top notch . |