Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 2 | Sun said it was bringing action over the alleged theft to keep the playing field level , claiming Axil 's illegal head start cut potential investment in the Sparc architecture . |
| 3 | Sun said it was bringing action over the alleged theft to keep the playing field level , claiming Axil 's illegal headstart decreased potential investment in the Sparc architecture . |
| 4 | Their roots lay in another relatively new corporate phenomenon , that of management consultancy , which was gaining credence at the same time . |
| 5 | Bob Elphinston , general manager of the Sydney bid , said the Manchester bid was gaining support among the 91 International Olympic Committee members . |
| 6 | Poland was doing so in protest at the Soviet Union 's refusal withdraw all its 50,000 Polish-based troops by early 1992 , while Czechoslovakia was denying access to the Soviet convoys after the failure of talks on a cash payment for the proposed transit . |
| 7 | Death en masse was becoming part of the natural order of things . |
| 8 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 9 | Clearly Clovis was currying favour with the catholic clergy at the start of the Visigothic war ; that is not to say that the war was a crusade , nor is it to say that the king had already been baptized . |
| 10 | In Riba , the law was keeping pace with the increasing size and gradually growing prosperity-of the town . |
| 11 | who was keeping shtum in the Scottish Borders . |
| 12 | Less than ten minutes later , Ellwood was driving west on the elevated section , carving a path through the laggards and deadheads . |
| 13 | Neither side of industry was seeking confrontation after the General Strike , and even Baldwin 's government was reluctant to pursue the draconian legislation advocated by some Conservative extremists in the autumn of 1926 . |
| 14 | Query : The teacher of first-year humanities was seeking information on the Australian aborigines . |
| 15 | Intel Corp president Andy Grove told the annual meeting that the company 's chip business remains strong and that it is ready to fight new competitors in the market place , Reuter reports : ‘ Our response to all these competitors has been to concentrate on getting better and faster products into the hands of our customers , ’ Grove said , adding that Intel was meeting demand for the 80486 but dealer and customer inventories were tight ; capital spending this year is now likely to hit $1,800m , up from the previously planned $1,600m ; executive vice-president Craig Barrett said the next generation P6 microprocessor will probably be unveiled in late 1995 or early 1996 ; Intel holders also approved a two for one share split to take effect in June . |
| 16 | There were three Commandos in the latrine , one was addressing Scouse with the usual , ‘ Come on , Scouse , when are we going home ? ’ |
| 17 | At fifteen he was writing poetry under the avant-garde influence of Robert Graves , T. S. Eliot , and particularly W. H. Auden [ qq.v. ] , from whom he solicited a letter of encouragement . |
| 18 | She became one of the vice-presidents of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage and was acting editor of the Common Cause in 1913 . |
| 19 | In 1794 he was acting captain of the Adamant ( 50 guns ) and then captain of the Isis , also of 50 guns . |
| 20 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 21 | Seb was riding Grye beside the light wagon , discussing with Carrie the next race in which he intended running the horse . |
| 22 | Saturday was polling day in the urban centres . |
| 23 | He was losing patience with the slow progress . |
| 24 | The owners want a pay structure for baseball similar to the one introduced into professional basketball when it was losing money in the early 1980s , and which professional football is copying . |
| 25 | He appealed to William who was cutting leather at the other end of the bench . |
| 26 | It was approaching midnight in the little southern Spanish town , and it was Saturday night on the moonlit Mediterranean . |
| 27 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 28 | Even in the army , the old stranglehold of reactionary officers was giving way to the increasing professionalism of soldiers drawn from varied social backgrounds . |
| 29 | The disappearance of the rhynchosaurs , like the decline of the synapsid dicynodonts before them , seems to be associated with a decline of their food-plant ; this time , of the seed fern Dicroidium , which was giving way to the worldwide spread of the conifers . |
| 30 | But even The Times was giving space to the possible consequences of a royal divorce . |