Example sentences of "[adj] were [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight per cent of women aged 18 — 49 were cohabiting in 1988 , and over 20 per cent of those had never been married ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 2 | The reparations on this were going to be cosmic . |
| 3 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 4 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 5 | The studio was full ; most of the students were painting from the model , a few were drawing from still life . |
| 6 | On 11 December the rumour spread that the French were landing in Pevensey Bay , like William the Conqueror 700 years earlier . |
| 7 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 8 | Before then , in June 1340 , Lewis of Bavaria deserted him and made peace with Philip ; in June 1341 David II returned to Scotland and renewed border raids ; James van Arteveldt began to alienate his Flemish allies ; and the French were advancing in Gascony . |
| 9 | The turning point for me came when the French were coming at us , guns blazing and big Marc Cecillon was roaring towards our our line with the ball in his hands . |
| 10 | Some were converting from the heavies such as the Lincoln and Washington , others from the recce and light bomber Mosquito squadrons . |
| 11 | Some were hanging near the surface , while others lay on their sides on the bottom motionless , looking quite dead . |
| 12 | Some were screaming with terror . |
| 13 | Most either thought it did n't matter as long as they got relief for their tension and frustration and saw it as a way of keeping the peace , but some were trying through women 's groups or assertion therapy to express themselves more honestly . |
| 14 | The Panel Chairman told the parents that their children were well , settling down in their foster homes , and that some were going to school . |
| 15 | Some were dancing to the beat . |
| 16 | Some were suffering from post-parturition melancholy , some from the effects of withdrawal from Valium ; many were single mothers and many the victims of spouse or ‘ partner ’ abuse . |
| 17 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 18 | Some were lying on charpoys , snoozing away the last minutes before their first meal for thirteen hours . |
| 19 | It just took 'em up like that , and took 'em across : some were lying in the ditch , some in the hedge . |
| 20 | Several strange-looking animals were lying in a field , and some were sitting in a tree . |
| 21 | Some were waiting for spare parts from Cairo , some were waiting on instructions from their owners , some were going downriver . |
| 22 | Some were waiting for spare parts from Cairo , some were waiting on instructions from their owners , some were going downriver . |
| 23 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 24 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |
| 25 | For example , Levin et al , 1983 concluded , from their 1980 survey of 150 elderly confused people , that about half were suffering from ‘ physical illnesses which were grave enough to impede the performance of daily living activities ’ , many involving such problems as incontinence , failing , unsteadiness or pain . |
| 26 | A survey of 124 homeless men using a Salvation Army hostel found that over half were suffering from mental disorders but only seven had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year . |
| 27 | Of the estimated 1,500 journeymen and 1,200 apprentices working as printers ( pressmen and compositors combined ) in Scotland in the 1850s , rather more than half were working in the book and jobbing section of the trade , the rest in newspaper offices . " |
| 28 | Those who did go before 1560 were writing about a country which the English wanted to conquer . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the British were looking towards the war 's end and the possible shape of civil aviation even before the United States entered the conflict . |
| 30 | In negotiating with Jinnah and Nehru the British were dealing with leaders they had to recognise as their political and also social equals . |