Example sentences of "the [noun] were [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients who had repeated 24 hours pH monitoring at the second stage of the study were still taking omeprazole 40 mg/day but all other drugs were withheld for at least 48 hours beforehand . |
| 2 | Hunter headed clear to deny Norris his hat-trick and by the end the Dragons were hardly breathing fire . |
| 3 | The watchers were now bellowing encouragement to each of the players in a game which had taken a new turn . |
| 4 | On May 13 it was reported that Taylor 's forces had received a cargo of military equipment from Libya through the port of Buchanan , and that the rebels were freely using supply routes through Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 5 | It should be noted that at the second stage of the study ( after the healing of oesophagitis ) the patients were still taking omeprazole . |
| 6 | The youths were neither causing damage nor harm . |
| 7 | Some of the colleges were now providing training in the marketing of these assets . |
| 8 | However , even the ten-year-olds were still having difficulty in responding to the linguistic cues to the deductive mode , as was shown by the deductive/empirical experiment . |