Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 2 | Thus Communist parties were functioning in the major Latin American countries by 1923 , and had been set up in most others by the end of the decade . |
| 3 | The next question to be answered is exactly what details subjects were describing in the different conditions and whether certain specific types of information are related to risk , memory , or both . |
| 4 | Interestingly , in a large-scale study of search behaviour just completed ( Hey , 1992/3 ) we found a conclusion remarkably similar to that found in this study : subjects were responding in the wrong direction ( but significantly ) to changes in the riskiness parameter σ . |
| 5 | In the meantime , the Dragoons were floundering in the boggy ground , easy targets for the riflemen while finding it impossible to fire with any reasonable accuracy themselves . |
| 6 | A number of common guillemots were feeding in the tidal streams which run strongly here . |
| 7 | They skirted an indoor pool , empty as yet , though a few early arrivals were sitting in the comfortable chairs , enjoying afternoon tea . |
| 8 | The score was unchanged and the Yankees were batting in the ninth , and last , inning . |
| 9 | Their guests were assembling in the open-air piazza below . |
| 10 | However traffic conditions were changing in the Fifties as car ownership increased , both reducing passengers and increasing road traffic at the same time . |
| 11 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 12 | Because of the shortages of girls for nursing , many ads were appearing in the daily papers . |
| 13 | But he added that , with three-quarters of the company 's business now overseas , foreign exchange rates were moving in the right direction . |
| 14 | But he added that , with three-quarters of the company 's business now overseas , foreign exchange rates were moving in the right direction . |
| 15 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 16 | The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky . |
| 17 | The tree-tops were bowing in the rising wind , and it sounded as though they , too , were sighing . |
| 18 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 19 | Two years to the day after the killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's massage parlour . |
| 20 | Two years to the day after the brutal killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's Massage parlour . |
| 21 | Just as England 's hopes were dying in the third and final Test against India in Bombay , Hick revived his side with a magnificent innings of 99 not out . |
| 22 | Huge log fires were burning in the open fireplaces in both the Long Hall , and the Big Drawing Room . |
| 23 | The room was largely uninhabited : a group of women in jeans were laughing in the opposite corner , and two girls were in earnest conversation by the window , pink spiky heads leaning together . |