Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVEN Newcastle United fans were still recovering in hospital last night after a double fatal accident on the A66 trans-Pennine road . |
| 2 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 3 | His mouth was wet and his eyes were still flicking from side to side . |
| 4 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 5 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 6 | He glanced down the slope wishing he had brought boots ; his shoes were already letting in mud . |
| 7 | Cameron and Menzies found themselves moving out of the door in a file of soldiers whose feet were already walking in step . |
| 8 | This wreck was the Small Gains , which had gone down more than twenty-live years before , when hundreds of barges were still working under sail . |
| 9 | As they climbed over the hedge , he was struck by the beauty of the day ; the hedgerows were just coming into leaf and the meadow was dotted with buttercups and daisies . |
| 10 | Mr Cook added that Canada and other countries were rapidly moving toward merger agreements and that DRT would boast a fee income in excess of $3.3bn in the current year . |
| 11 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 12 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 13 | As regards these latter matters , it will be assumed for the remainder of the chapter , unless the contrary is stated , that a company has capacity to grant the security and that the directors were not acting in breach of their duty to the company or exceeding their authority . |
| 14 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 15 | But he is afraid he have to correct Mr Browne on a matter of geography : the British troops were not waiting for war in the Kuwaiti desert ; that was the Iraqi troops . |
| 16 | Whether the graptolites were not living near shore , or whether the conditions were not right for their preservation , are questions that have excited some argument . |
| 17 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 18 | His snowdrops were already wilting like wax candles in the warmth of his hand , and as he copied the mourners ahead of him and stood up , one flower slipped between his fingers on to the rust-coloured floor . |
| 19 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 20 | Many potential customers might feel more comfortable where agencies were not aiming at supervision of their minds . |
| 21 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 22 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 23 | Since those relations were daily growing in importance with the increase in trade , it was becoming more and more essential that all should try and give life to that necessary fiction of government that every man knew the laws of his country . |
| 24 | He pointed out that large groups such as Hilton and Holiday Inns were already investing in fire protection beyond the minimum requirements . |
| 25 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 26 | The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength , and noting that they listened to ‘ hearty , racy , cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten . ’ |
| 27 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 28 | The governors were still waiting for action one year later . |
| 29 | Izetbegovic at a press conference said that Croatia was " so far " not considered an aggressor in Bosnia-Hercegovina , although Croatian forces were reportedly fighting for control of the Bosnian town of Mostar , near the Croatian coast . |
| 30 | Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users . |