Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 2 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 3 | Stock was changing hands for as little as 14½p before the company put out a statement saying it knew of no reason , ‘ other than the general economic climate ’ , for the fall . |
| 4 | He used five female volunteers who knew the experiment was taking place . |
| 5 | In reply , Robert Dahl had no difficulty making it seem that Walker was pinning arguments to him and to others in an arbitrary manner , but in the process some of Walker 's stronger points were diminished — in particular the argument that ‘ political scientists … have overlooked the importance of broadly-based social movements , arising from the public at large , as powerful agents of innovation and change ’ . |
| 6 | There is a possibility , therefore , that Ealhfrith lost his life in a rebellion against his father while Wilfrid was receiving consecration in Gaul . |
| 7 | There were complaints from Lazenby that Diana Rigg was eating garlic before their big love scene . |
| 8 | We discuss subliminal manipulation , such as the allegation that , when that now-discredited US President was making campaign speeches in the early '70s , clandestine projectors would flash rapid slide images of John F Kennedy , Franklin D Roosevelt , Abraham Lincoln and George Washington behind him , sending out the subliminal message that Nixon was a great President . |
| 9 | We discuss subliminal manipulation , such as the allegation that , when that now-discredited US President was making campaign speeches in the early '70s , clandestine projectors would flash rapid slide images of John F Kennedy , Franklin D Roosevelt , Abraham Lincoln and George Washington behind him , sending out the subliminal message that Nixon was a great President . |
| 10 | I 'll find time this morning , ’ Lucy promised , sensing that Jean was seeking approval of the manner in which she kept the chalets . |
| 11 | At the same time , it was becoming obvious that between his two drivers , Dennis was favouring Prost . |
| 12 | Niki still thought Ron Dennis was giving Prost the better service . |
| 13 | Zelah was telling Helen the plot of her next novel . |
| 14 | Charles I 's commission on exacted fees and innovated offices was investigating Mynne and the Hanaper ( in effect the treasury of the Great Seal ) in 1630 ; he got off then but was finally brought to trial for extortion in 1634 . |
| 15 | The net result was rising crime and falling detection rates — an astonishing pattern in our sensible and law-abiding community . |
| 16 | People whove seen the previous few matches all seemed to agree Rocky faded badly and as a result was exposing Kelly a little too much . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the station confirmed that the 27-year-old Anfieldborn DJ was meeting City FM chiefs . |
| 18 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 19 | Despite his frequent boasts about the progress made under his rule , Ceauşescu was turning Romania into a steadily ‘ under-developing nation ’ ( to use Alec Douglas-Home 's felicitous phrase ) and taking it backwards . |
| 20 | Killion stood and let the cold air chill him , as a kind of left-handed penance for not being at the Front where all that pounding and pulverizing of flesh and bone and blood with steel and explosive was taking place . |
| 21 | The continued belief in the ‘ untainted Führer ’ alongside the castigations of Party corruption blinded people now as earlier to the fateful path of destruction along which the institutionalized undermining of constitutional and legal norms in the ‘ Hitler State ’ and the fanatical pursuit of the Führer 's ‘ selfless ’ goals was taking Germany . |
| 22 | But now 20 years old , the Club was experiencing changes of a sadder kind . |
| 23 | Rosenberg was filming Flesh And Bone , in Stanton , Texas , for Warner Brothers with Spring Creek Productions , a company he started with his wife Paula Weinstein . |
| 24 | By 1973 , Roche was running Heidrick and Struggles ' entire East Coast operation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , as clearly as he could , he wrote down what he had observed — that a large French force of infantry , cavalry and artillery was marching north out of Charleroi on the Brussels road . |
| 27 | ‘ I came over there fifteen minutes ago and they had two of the buggers up again , and the Boche artillery was pounding shit out of our lines . ’ |
| 28 | It is undeniable that artillery was making progress , and that its development was one of the major changes associated with the conduct of war at this time . |
| 29 | A triangular pond was taking shape and trees , shrubs , seats and market barrow style stalls are planned for the aisles . |
| 30 | ‘ You did n't know that while you were having a good Christmas , Hester was making arrangements to send him away ? ’ |