Example sentences of "was [adv] happening [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It ’ was all happening at sea . |
| 2 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 3 | It was not necessary to break up large collective and state farms ( as was already happening in parts of Georgia and the Ukraine ) to give peasants more incentive ; they could form associations or joint-stock companies or leaseholders . |
| 4 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 5 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 6 | Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ . |
| 7 | The following two pieces illustrate the way in which European involvement in the Stop The Clause campaign was necessitated both by horror of what appeared to be happening in Britain , and by a concern about what was also happening in Europe . |
| 8 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 9 | Charlie was n't frightened of any Germans , but he still hoped that the war might come to an end quickly and that his father would return to Whitechapel and his routine of working at the docks during the day and drinking in the Black Bull at night But with no letters and only restricted news in the papers even Mr Salmon could n't tell him what was really happening at the front . |
| 10 | Yet we are still left with the impression that these two Greeks never quite understood what was really happening in the social organism which had become the guarantee of their own survival . |
| 11 | But the peaceful feeling which accompanies hypnosis and the constant reminders that she was relaxed and comfortable and everything was simply happening in her imagination had served to prevent any fear and anxiety at all . |
| 12 | Fleischmann discussed radiation with them , aware that if fusion was indeed happening in the cell there could be significant health risks although he did seem to be feeling all right . |
| 13 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 14 | A fresh look at the whole process was needed , and it was felt that this could be achieved by taking a systems view , unbiased by what was then happening in practice , ie before the Act took effect . |
| 15 | The next step was to relate this model to what was then happening in practice , ie before the Act took effect . |
| 16 | Well t I mean to the extent that that is happening , that there is a development of trade on the sort of , you know , with the periphery of the empire and with erm areas outside the empire , and that was certainly happening in this period , I do n't see why it should have a significant impact on the peasant population because there is n't really any evidence that it 's , in a sense , trickling down and enriching the peasantry . |
| 17 | They could n't believe it was all real — that the nightmare was actually happening to them . |
| 18 | She still could n't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her . |
| 19 | The conceptual line between the systems world and the real world was crossed at a later stage when the information model was used to explore what was actually happening in practice . |
| 20 | The next step was to compare the conceptual model with what was actually happening in practice , a process similar to that described in Chapter 9 , where the existing situation is considered in light of a proposed new system . |
| 21 | One has to read all this special pleading against the light so to speak to see what was actually happening in day-to-day practice . |
| 22 | the discrepancy between what was set out in his syllabus and what was actually happening in the classrooms , particularly with regard to three dimensional work ; |
| 23 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 24 | What was therefore happening during the period reviewed by Bacon and Eltis was that British capital was being invested either abroad , where profit returns were higher and easier to achieve , or in finance companies in this country where again profitability was higher than in industry . |