Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were very alive to the fact that the Howie review was raising issues of integration and articulation that Further Education could n't afford to ignore . |
| 2 | On July 30 Georgian President Givi Gumbaridze warned that the action was threatening Georgia with anarchy and " armed conflict " , but with some 25,000 travellers and 500,000 tons of cargo stranded on trains the authorities capitulated on July 31 after negotiations with opposition leaders . |
| 3 | We were dismayed to learn that the new editor was making decisions without access to the full file on our paper . |
| 4 | By December 1989 evidence was mounting that consumption was giving way to investment as the main engine of growth . |
| 5 | If the Council was getting loads of growth in its budget it might not need to increase its charges . |
| 6 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |
| 7 | Mrs Wallace Reid , however , told the press the truth — that her husband was having treatment for morphine addiction . |
| 8 | By the time the new committee got its name , Ashley had left the court , and the court was losing touch with part of the merchant interest . |
| 9 | Dusk was giving way to night and the fires outside the gate burned brightly . |
| 10 | The most important part of the day was identifying priorities for action and agreeing how they would be handled . |
| 11 | Its full title was Preparing Police to Deal with a Multicultured Society , and it was on the subject of policing black communities — still the most vexatious and controversial for both police and their critics — that Sir Peter made his thoughts most plain . |
| 12 | By the second half of the 1950s , thanks to foreign loans , the economy was showing signs of recovery , and Spain had been admitted as a member of the United Nations , in December 1955 . |
| 13 | On Friday , however , back at his natural weight , he looked sharp and crisp , and after forcing Rowe into a standing count was landing punches at will before the referee mercifully stopped the bout . |
| 14 | Already the grass was becoming crisp with frost . |
| 15 | The ZETA team detected these neutrons using scintillation counters and boron counters , and by activating silver ( neutrons have a large ‘ cross-section ’ — propensity to interact — with boron and silver , hence the use of these elements to detect them ) and showed that fusion was taking place in ZETA on a substantial scale . |
| 16 | The old man was taking refuge in confusion . |
| 17 | At a time when a deranged man was holding hostages at gunpoint , the newspaper splashed on its front page : |
| 18 | Several guerrillas , wreathed in cartridge bandoliers , were reading comics near an empty café where an old man was picking crumbs of bread off a table . |
| 19 | During the entire day he felt a violent , dissatisfied feeling that his whole life was taking place in front of his eyes without anything at all taking place . |
| 20 | Many of us at that time welcomed the fact that the government was taking stock of public opinion , and was t making the effort to review the , the , the N H S. |
| 21 | Fears that the Government was putting constraints on research it commissions were fuelled when , last year , the then DHSS inserted a new clause in its contract with outside researchers . |
| 22 | ‘ When I bullied you into accepting my terms to get you out of gaol , my only concern was reaching Athens in time for my meeting . ’ |
| 23 | Kiku was wearing cloth of gold . |
| 24 | During the 1950s the public image of science was altogether more positive ; science was providing solutions to society 's greatest needs . |
| 25 | A slim youth with curly hair pushed his way round , collecting used glasses , and a young girl with a notebook was taking orders for food at the bar . |
| 26 | It was just after Nixon fired Dick Helms and was dumping all over the Company to get us to take the rap for Watergate and Congress was hearing words like assassination and setting up committees and … like everybody was pissing into our bathtub and hoping to stir up a U-boat . |
| 27 | Just one of the students sponsored by their employer was seeking employment on completion — not surprisingly , the rest had jobs . |
| 28 | A director filming on location in a stadium was spending £20,000 per hour . |
| 29 | That stroking thumb was sending shafts of heat straight up her arm with every heartbeat . |
| 30 | ‘ Our oil-fired central heating system was showing signs of age , so the National Trust 's adviser on Conservation Heating looked for a new system which would be efficient , cost effective and environmentally sound . |