Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 32 | This was still overmanning to a considerable degree by world standards . |
| 33 | In fact he was still working on a first version of the fourth act ( which eventually became Act III ) when he sailed for New York on 24 September . |
| 34 | At first Peter 's parents thought he was still suffering from a recent bout of whooping cough , but when he started a second bottle of C-vit they noticed the drink had fermented , turning some of the juice into alcohol . |
| 35 | Kursell v. Timber Operators ( 1927 C.A ) concerned the sale of timber which at the time the contract was made was still growing in a Latvian forest . |
| 36 | Perhaps he was still groping towards a fully-formed constitutional blueprint . |
| 37 | Also , the demographic structure was gradually shifting towards a higher representation of older age-groups ( 12 per cent aged 65 years or over in 1951 , compared with 3.5 per cent in 1901 ) , and changes in household composition produced increasing numbers of elderly people living alone ( Wall 1982 ) . |
| 38 | The two continental blocks of the North Atlantic and Eurasian cratons were on opposite sides of the Iapetus Ocean , which was gradually closing in a complex way with subduction on both sides . |
| 39 | The survival I had in mind was more huddling with a broken leg under a rock in the snow , trying hard not to die of exposure until some pals bring the Mountain Rescue team . |
| 40 | In front of him , Branson was earnestly shuffling through a detailed prospectus . |
| 41 | The process of drainage and enclosure was probably occurring in a piecemeal fashion all through the late Saxon period . |
| 42 | This emerged as the consensus view on the juvenile ‘ crime wave ’ of the 1930s , and The Times was also speaking for a wide consensus when it suggested in a lead article that , ‘ It is a good and wise rule that , as far as possible , delinquent children ought to be left at home . ’ |
| 43 | By 1942 the Labour Party Conference was also calling for a comprehensive scheme of social security , adequate cash payments to provide security whatever the contingency , a scheme of family allowances , and a national health service . |
| 44 | One of the attractions of NoS was that , in breaking away from the Fleet Street mould , it was also looking for a different sort of employee . |
| 45 | But he was also responding to a mounting chorus of complaint about the system of ‘ feeding ’ , which was disastrous for the local population . |
| 46 | Britain 's growing dependence on American economic aid in the form of Lend-Lease was also leading to a disturbing degree of American control over British gold and dollar reserves . |
| 47 | She was waiting to commence training as a nurse so her life was also heading in a new direction , but she was ill prepared for the grief she was to experience at the loss of the sister who had been so close and influential in her own life . |
| 48 | As well as his teaching , and a planned series of concerts in the autumn , Mozart was also working on a new opera . |
| 49 | His right arm was also lying at a funny angle and was probably dislocated or fractured . |
| 50 | The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee . |
| 51 | To see her at work during the day , with her hair pulled straight back and no makeup on , and to hear her ticking off her girls if they were slacking , you would n't dream it was the same girl who was out dancing with a different partner every night . |
| 52 | She was out cruising for a bruising from morning till night , and when she was apprehended soliciting for trade up the high street and gated for the evening , she spent it flat up against the back room window , flashing her underparts at any passing Harry , Dick or certainly Tom , and making the most loud and ear-curdling noises by way of enticement . |
| 53 | Ginny was now living on a part-time basis with David , Leo 's son by his first marriage ; Leo hoped that Ginny and David would marry and produce a host of little Quests for him to dote on in his old age . |
| 54 | The outcome was that John moved in with his father , who was now living in a pleasant flat at Houghton Heights , Johannesburg . |
| 55 | Tweed was now speaking in a normal detached tone . |
| 56 | His voice was now re-forming into a pleasant tenor and his clamp of a memory could breeze him through Welsh songs and hymns , music-hall ditties and comic specialities half the night . |
| 57 | But I do n't expect you to believe I was simply looking for a good time . |
| 58 | TWO-YEAR-OLD Nicola Brady was today recovering from a serious attack by a stray dog near her home town of Monaghan . |
| 59 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 60 | Theodora realised this was rather a lame attempt on her part to steer clear of what was increasingly looking like a nasty piece of wreckage . |