Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concurrent with these military developments the British aircraft industry was waging a losing battle with the Americans for a large share of the civilian passenger and freight markets . |
| 2 | At his feet their five-year-old , Wu , was waging a ferocious battle between two armies of miniature dragons , their tiny power packs making them seem almost alive . |
| 3 | It was clear she was waging an internal battle with herself , but finally the actress in her won out , and she tossed her luxuriant hair back contemptuously . |
| 4 | Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others . |
| 5 | It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon ! |
| 6 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 7 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 8 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 9 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 10 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 11 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 12 | His lawyer said the unnamed woman was demanding a great deal of money . |
| 13 | I was demanding a big rise in salary , just to prove my worth ; and Andrew was refusing to give it to me , as a matter of principle . |
| 14 | I went in the belief that I was encouraging a modern renaissance of the Egyptian theatre . |
| 15 | The business became well established and , by the early 19th century , was producing a wide range of blotting papers . |
| 16 | The moralization of public life , under pressure from evangelicals , was producing a new language of politics and an insistence that men holding public office should outwardly subscribe to respectable standards of personal conduct . |
| 17 | The Spanish Civil War was producing a stronger antagonism to Fascism and the National Government than had previously existed in the Opposition . |
| 18 | Within two years of the investment the company , realizing that it could now offer customers more custom-built specifications , was producing a considerable range of products from the new machines . |
| 19 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 20 | He was using a modern style of movement therefore the rise and fall of his design had far greater dimensions and therefore greater emotional content , His dancers had to parallel the sonorities of Fauré 's solemn ritual of mourning . |
| 21 | She worked that one out using the combined thought that J. Arthur had to mean the movie mogul J. Arthur Rank and that what her brother really was doing was using a convenient form of rhyming slang . |
| 22 | The 30-year-old victim was using a public lavatory in Leyton , east London , shortly before 6am when the two men struck , pushing him into a cubicle and subjecting him to what Scotland Yard called a ‘ serious sexual assault ’ . |
| 23 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 24 | By 1850 the company had seventy employees and was using an early form of mail order to sell seeds in Britain and overseas , as postal and railway services helped to expand its activities . |
| 25 | The masks eyes hid my own eye 's movement , just as a filter over the mouth would alter my voice when I spoke , in case anyone was using an audio pick-up with instant voice-print comparison . |
| 26 | I 'm not ashamed to admit that I was encountering the vast majority of the fish on show for the first time . |
| 27 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 28 | The devil likewise found work for idle hands while the entire staff of Harvard Securities were gathered to gawp at Leslie Grantham , alias " Dirty Den " the pub owner in the TV soap opera Eastenders , who was accepting a large cheque on behalf of the Spastics Society . |
| 29 | Now it was accepting the democratic method to the extent of reaching agreement with the Liberals or even Conservatives . |
| 30 | We were over the lagoon now , racing towards the northern strands of the Devil 's Necklace , but low enough so that the wash of our twin propellers was whipping the blue water into a wake of white-hazed foam . |