Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After seventy years of atheism , religion was re-emerging in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 3 | A pro-Khomeini mutiny began among Air Force technicians ( known as homagars ) and then spread to other ranks ; by 10 February the Air Force was fighting against the Imperial Guard . |
| 4 | Devraux was staring towards the front flaps as she entered and he froze when he saw her . |
| 5 | Marco was stepping over the spasming limb as if the robot was n't there . |
| 6 | At least it showed that the girl 's mind was working in the right direction . |
| 7 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 8 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fleischmann was alluding to the strategic importance of lithium-6 , which is present as 7.5 per cent of all naturally occurring lithium and is an important ingredient in thermonuclear weapons as it can be cleft by neutrons to make tritium , the essential fuel , and can fuse with deuterium to make helium-4 , releasing energy in the form of gamma rays without accompanying neutrons . |
| 11 | ‘ O'Neill and O'Donnell crossed here with cannon and horses on the way to Kinsale in one night , ’ he told her as the car was climbing into the low mountains . |
| 12 | The last of the winter snow was melting off the steep slopes , but the flatter areas and the passes still seemed to be well covered . |
| 13 | But the views in winter are rather more spectacular , and although we were starting to feel that snow was coming on the strengthening wind , we at least enjoyed the open sweeping aspect to the south and east as we walked . |
| 14 | Even though Blanche 's first question was innocent enough , Dexter knew immediately that the superintendent was thinking along the same lines . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 17 | When Mrs Thatcher came to power in May 1979 , union power was at its height and British industry was going through the crippling after effects of the winter of discontent |
| 18 | Last night the motor industry was rejoicing at the unexpected cut . |
| 19 | He looked across the sea : a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky . |
| 20 | The cold bleak light was growing in the cloudless sky . |
| 21 | Violence was erupting outside the Catholic family 's ground-floor flat in a Falls Road tower block . |
| 22 | Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 26 | ‘ All you 'd ‘ ave to do is stand in front of 'em and ‘ ope the wind was blowin' in the right direction . ’ |
| 27 | The wind was cutting across the open space at great speed , so cold it seemed to penetrate his bones . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour . |
| 30 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |