Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gradually demonstrated more and more evidence of a defocusing of attention as the task went on , consistent with the view that although performance was not disrupted by lapses , habituation was leading to a marked drop in arousal level in these subjects . |
| 2 | Meanwhile in 1558 he wrote the Appellation to the Nobility and Estates of Scotland , a work which , taken in conjunction with his Letter addressed to the Commonalty of Scotland , shows how far his mind was moving towards a positive theory of the rights of resistance in God 's cause . |
| 3 | Yet , while one part of my mind was reaching this decision , while horror and moral indignation were mounting within me , another part of my mind was working in an opposite direction . |
| 4 | Creggan was staring in a hostile way at this invasion of his territory but feeling too lazy to bother much about it when to his astonishment he heard a familiar and unpleasant voice say something unfamiliar and very strange indeed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He realized he was wasting time ; the past could wait , the future was running on a short time-fuse . |
| 7 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 8 | This denial was particularly important , since at the time the Thatcher administration was going through a bad period in terms of popular opinion on issues such as unemployment , social services , and housing . |
| 9 | I was told that the wind was blowing in a different direction that day and that this smog ( caused by the local power station ) always occurred when this happened . |
| 10 | Nothing serious yet , although she sensed their friendship was changing in a subtle sort of way . |
| 11 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 12 | The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars . |
| 13 | The sun was sinking in a red glow , the lights were coming out in Eldercombe Village . |
| 14 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 15 | It appeared to be an old two-dimensional film presentation ; an old fashioned oil-driven military vehicle was speeding across a verdant green field . |
| 16 | Although the classics were still important , their grip was slackening in a competitive and utilitarian age . |
| 17 | Heath was calling for a decisive mandate to put the unions in their place , but the most striking feature of the results is that they offered no party any decisive mandate whatever . |
| 18 | Whichever bell was tolling , the question-and-answer on the specific issue of the FBR revealed that the committee was dealing with a legendary creature indifferent to the usual processes of judgement , time and fate . |
| 19 | If my understanding is correct , the boy was looking for a missing goat on the edge of the thicket when he was charged by a cow elephant and killed . |
| 20 | It so happened that on this same 7th of September the inner circle of the royal council was meeting in a small room in Westminster to hear the report of the treasurer , the king 's old and loyal servant Henry Bowet , now bishop of Bath and Wells . |
| 21 | In the corner of the room a hen was squawking in a wooden cage . |
| 22 | The Judge was sitting in a great , high-backed oak chair , on the right-hand side of a great stone fireplace . |
| 23 | A girl was sunbathing on a lounger in the courtyard outside Culley 's window . |
| 24 | If the cut is very dirty , your child was playing in a dirty area ( like a muddy garden ) , or the wound was caused by something dirty like a rusty nail or tin . |
| 25 | While these arrangements were being formulated , the developer was looking for a suitable building . |
| 26 | The Hospitality Inn was looking for a worthy home for unwanted furniture and bedding after refurbishment . |
| 27 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 28 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 29 | The whole machine was acting like a live electric wire . |
| 30 | Joseph grinned ruefully back at him for a moment , then sensing the senator was warming to a familiar theme , he picked up a history of French Indochina that lay open on the table before him and sank down in his chair behind it . |