Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bell Aircraft was located in close proximity to the GE facility and while Bell was producing P–39s at an heroic rate , its design engineers were already looking beyond the end of the production contact to new , future fighters . |
| 32 | In this context , I would argue that while the unleashing of widespread revolutionary activity in Latin America in the 1960s must obviously be attributed to the impact of the 1959 Cuban revolution , this event was essentially a catalyst , which supplied a model and a source of inspiration to a radicalised generation who were already looking for an alternative to the Soviet theory of ‘ revolution in stages ’ . |
| 33 | The German brigade officers were already spurring down the road towards Sharpe . |
| 34 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 35 | The king and his judges were already acting on the assumption that all ecclesiastical endowments within the realm were originally held by and from the crown , to which they should therefore revert if and when a church failed of its purpose . |
| 36 | She tried to keep her attention on the lines , but they were already swimming off the page . |
| 37 | The train crew were already collecting in the locker room when I made my way there and introduced myself as Tommy , the actor . |
| 38 | By then , though , the television cameras were in place for the wedding , the cake had been baked , the crowds were already gathering on the pavement and the sense of happy anticipation was almost palpable . |
| 39 | We had rehearsals in the morning , and by lunch-time people were already coming across the river to get their places for the play . |
| 40 | The widespread implications of the Famine were already coming to the surface . |
| 41 | The shape was roughly indented in the mud , but little runnels of water were already seeping into the indentation , for the tide had turned . |
| 42 | On that hole Stein and Otaki were already playing into the arena of grandstands . |
| 43 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 44 | The Marmite and plum jam sandwiches were already curling on the trestle table under the walnut tree . |
| 45 | His mother and the governor of Cochin-China were already waiting by the entrance with the Resident Superior of Annam and his official suite of guests . |
| 46 | Her cheeks were already burning from the heat . |
| 47 | Congressional threats to resist the dissolution of the Congress , however , were not expected to materialize and the major parties were already preparing for the election campaign . |
| 48 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 49 | People were always coming into the shop looking for things to copy . |
| 50 | Barriers and handicaps were always contributing to the alienation he bemoaned and yet instinctively courted . |
| 51 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 52 | At one point in my innings I thought that a number of England fielders were deliberately walking on the pitch and scuffing it up with their spikes . |
| 53 | The second will consider the work being done to mobilize the concern and commitment of individuals working in all aspects of health care to ensure that they were genuinely working for the health of the people . |
| 54 | Most people , I noticed , even experienced naturalists , were forever striding through the undergrowth , striking out across the fields , and searching , searching for something new . |
| 55 | But in the aftermath of the bid , while suggestions that TI paid too much for Dowty were still flying around the City , the group won praise and respect from many analysts when it released a detailed account of the provisions it would be making in connection with the takeover — £87.1m in all , of which £41m represents asset write-offs and £46.1m additional expenditure that TI will have to incur . |
| 56 | Yesterday Frank and Dorothy Lewis were still seething following the court case , which arose from an incident at Ilkeston , in Derbyshire . |
| 57 | His ears were still ringing from the gunshot . |
| 58 | The cookhouse was only fifty yards away and was open from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm ; at 1.15 pm we were still hobbling round the block in an abdominal crouch with our hands behind our heads . |
| 59 | Chief Supt David Foster said there was no indication of a sexual attack and police were still searching for a murder weapon . |
| 60 | They were still thinking of the kingdom in materialistic terms . |