Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Twoflower was delightedly taking picture after picture of people engaged in what he described as typical activities , and since a quarter-rhinu would subsequently change hands ‘ for their trouble ’ a tail of bemused and happy nouveaux-riches was soon following him in case this madman exploded in a shower of gold . |
| 2 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 3 | Although he was on Oxfords , or even Ansons , he was nevertheless getting experience at night and this was important if he wanted to become a Mosquito Pathfinder . |
| 4 | The progressive realisation of the single market was already bringing benefits to industry and commerce in the EC , and industrial leaders began to share the conviction of the Commission and the Parliament that , without eventual EMU , the full benefits of the single market could not be garnered . |
| 5 | They had been accepted for admission before the onset of dementia ( most sheltered housing associations would not accept a new tenant who was already showing evidence of dementia ) , but with increasing age in the sheltered housing population cases are likely to occur more frequently . |
| 6 | Down three times in the first , his eyes fused and shiney , he was already showing signs of wear and tear . |
| 7 | It was n't Rory Adam had set his sights on , it was the nightclub , and it seemed now that his first devious move was already paying dividends in loss of business for Rory . |
| 8 | Ajax was not dragging Cassandra from sanctuary but standing trial before his peers for that impious act ; yet she was still seated on the ground clasping the image fallen from its pedestal . |
| 9 | What was different in October 1962 — and accounted for the drop in the " yes " vote and the bitterness of the debate — was that this time the referendum was not taking place in wartime . |
| 10 | More importantly , he was a little wary of her father and not at all sure that Burkett was not using Sylvia as bait for a cast of his own . |
| 11 | Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance . |
| 12 | The reductionist approach was not providing results in cancer research and I thought that something other than the presently known properties of carcinogens had to be involved as a activator . ’ |
| 13 | Early in the present century S. Le Gall was still translating ch'i by matière . |
| 14 | The Herbarium photocopier was still giving cause for concern in respect of a lack of information and instruction on its use . |
| 15 | Picking himself up , he threw his arms around the yeoman who was still plucking shreds of apple off his jerkin . |
| 16 | Carol White was still having problems with sequencing at three-and-a-half-years : ‘ Again and again , there are … indications of how slight is the small child 's sense of continuity ’ ( White , 1954 , p.56 ) . |
| 17 | Lord St Aldwyn , the Opposition Chief Whip in the Lords , was also taking soundings among Conservative peers-he consulted sixty-five of them . |
| 18 | The plight of some 600 detainees acknowledged by the authorities was also giving cause for concern . |
| 19 | The state of the earth 's physical resources was also giving cause for concern . |
| 20 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 21 | ‘ Survivors , but embattled , ’ said Theodora to Cranmer who had got his head down and was experimentally working tufts of bracken into either side of his bit . |
| 22 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 23 | In another instance one major enterprise , previously run by the wife , was now suffering losses of stock . |
| 24 | Dieter Kaufmann , 37 , a drug addict with a prison record who was reportedly undergoing treatment for schizophrenia , was arrested at the scene although two others ran away . |
| 25 | After all , he was n't packing suitcases for fun . |
| 26 | But when he was n't conducting affairs of state , there 's nothing he enjoyed more for getting away from it all , than fly fishing . |
| 27 | Hennessy moved in closer now that he knew that he was n't placing communication at risk . |
| 28 | But then he was n't carrying tons of lead on a keel that had to be dragged through the water . |
| 29 | By 1987 the condition of the church was again giving cause for concern . |
| 30 | On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department . |