Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty of the 50 garages checked were giving sub-standard tests , using poor equipment , lax testing procedures or passing cars in a dangerous condition . |
| 2 | It became obvious as the system model was expanded to activity and then information level that the volume of data produced was becoming impossible to handle and comprehend using manual methods only . |
| 3 | The family was at one in its grief , and grief shared was suffering alleviated . |
| 4 | ‘ The variety of entries received was staggering , ’ he said . |
| 5 | One Street development Sue loved was working in Alf 's grocery shop with her long-term adversary , The Street 's pint-sized puritan Ivy Brennan , played by Sue 's great pal Lynne Perrie . |
| 6 | There are other omissions , too , which Purcell did not make good , quite apart from the dances which Shedlock noted were missing — the overture , for one . |
| 7 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 8 | A survey by Roberts and Bull of postgraduate library students ' first posts showed that book selection and acquisition was a prominent duty for many of them ; the first four duties reported were cataloguing and classification ( 94% of the sample of students ) , reference and readers ' advisory work ( 76% ) , selection and acquisition ( 67% ) and management ( 38% ) . |
| 9 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
| 10 | Within the narrative of Greenblatt 's book — opening with him considering the ‘ magic ’ of Shakespeare revivifying the dead in Greenblatt 's own voice , concluding with Greenblatt considering Shakespeare as substitute fetish for the book which the natives believed was stealing their life — this latter story also stands as a type of anecdote or fable about part of New Historicism 's critical enterprise . |
| 11 | I thought every breath that cat took was going to be her last . ’ |
| 12 | Loggers argued passionately for allowing cutting to continue on economic grounds , but were opposed by fishing industry representatives , who claimed that the populations of salmon on which their work depended were plummeting as a result of their breeding streams becoming silted up due to logging . |
| 13 | He added that two of the Mayo family which his team found were wearing ‘ bendy boots ’ and there was only one ice axe between them , even though they had strayed on to a climbing route . |
| 14 | The ban aimed at eliminating the ivory market , which many conservationists believed was fuelling widespread poaching which reduced Africa 's elephant population from an estimated 1.2 million to 609,000 in the last decade . |
| 15 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
| 16 | In spite of all her problems Rose was keeping to schedule . |
| 17 | Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced . |
| 18 | At the County Ground this morning John Gorman took over the crown as Swindon Town manager … down in London at Stamford Bridge Glenn Hoddle … the man whod abdicated was taking charge of his new kingdom Chelsea … |
| 19 | A senior police officer , DN Biswas , quoted eyewitnesses as saying the person killed was carrying a suitcase which exploded . |
| 20 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 21 | These benefits were not , of course , costless , and there were aspects of the reorganisation which some managers felt were decreasing their efficiency . |
| 22 | Those would assess if they would be among the winners and losers from the reform of a tax system which Mr Lamont said was starting to appear increasingly anachronistic . |
| 23 | Drivers from the taxi firm WTN used were arriving all the time with equipment , food and people . |
| 24 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 25 | That 's what Mrs Hollidaye said was happening . |
| 26 | One might suggest then that the ‘ major project ’ Holdaway recognized was missing from the college inventory is still to come ! |
| 27 | Less generous names suggested were Wiping the Slate Clean , and We 're Only Making Holds for Nigel . |
| 28 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 29 | In focusing on that sphere of life which provides the greatest potential for the expression of individual autonomy , urban sociology is uniquely equipped to chart a path out of the ‘ iron cage ’ which Weber believed was encompassing the whole of modern society . |
| 30 | Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game . |