Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 2 | Yet to do this was proving increasingly expensive , for articles of luxury were fast rising in price . |
| 3 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 4 | By the third week around 17 per cent thought Labour and the Alliance were also concentrating on defence . |
| 5 | The report added that almost half of the total number of people infected with the AIDS virus were also suffering from tuberculosis and that the time taken for an HIV carrier to develop AIDS appeared to be " dramatically " shorter among people also infected with tuberculosis . |
| 6 | German formations from the north were now marching into position on either side of 20th Corps , but those assigned to the left wing — called by the Germans the ‘ Eastern Group ’ — might have to face about if Rennenkampf marched south . |