Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down on the beach , the Big Wheel was still going round , its elegant shape picked out against the blackness of sea and sky by coloured lights , fixed at intervals , along its slender struts . |
| 2 | He looked over his shoulder , to where the youthful shepherd was fretfully hustling his flock from the forum into the skeleton entrance of the baths . |
| 3 | But the shepherd was still trying to scent where the danger lay . |
| 4 | Similarly , in Engineers ' and Managers ' Association v. ACAS ( 1980 ) the House of Lords by a majority held that ACAS had not acted unreasonably in postponing its statutory enquiries for the time being because another union was also seeking recognition and the plaintiff Association was also suing the Trades Union Congress . |
| 5 | Mr Empson said the association was also campaigning to reduce the burden of VAT on its 1,400 members , 300 of them in Scotland . |
| 6 | Malpass was still clutching his leg , using his hands as a tourniquet . |
| 7 | Daffodil was playfully patting Filmer 's hand . |
| 8 | This … this man , this total stranger was actually daring to sit in judgement ! |
| 9 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 10 | Amos 's great experiment was still going on . |
| 11 | The occasional jeep was still passing by with its dead or wounded aboard , raising a cloud of dust as it turned out of the village and sped down the slight hill toward the Orne bridges . |
| 12 | Half way across the field to the ditch where a jeep was now straining at a rope attached to the emerging car , the Substitute lit on a possible solution . |
| 13 | It was an irritant , no more — especially as Mary of Guise was now moving towards the culmination of her policy , the French marriage . |
| 14 | The electorate was steadily expanding during the course of the Stuart century , so that by Anne 's reign perhaps as many as one in four adult males had the right to vote , whilst the passage of the Triennial Act in 1694 meant that those who were enfranchised had the opportunity to make their voice known in frequently contested elections . |
| 15 | Demographic decentralization may well have preceded the movement of jobs out of the cities but , by the mid-1970s , a self-sustaining centrifugal force was clearly draining the cities of both people and jobs . |
| 16 | He also announced that the British Royal Air Force was currently training a number of Indonesian Air Force personnel . |
| 17 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 18 | Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies . |
| 19 | Maxie was still staring at a half cup of coffee . |
| 20 | One small hand emerged from beneath the sheet to probe the area where a large bruise was already forming . |
| 21 | The outgoing Lord Mayor , Ulster Unionist Herbert Ditty was today fighting for his political survival in the Court area where counting was still under way . |
| 22 | Reports that the President was increasingly taking the part of some sections of the armed forces led to speculation that a military take-over was imminent . |
| 23 | Another possible way of resolving the difficulty where the sole evidence is that the defendant was actually fighting is to say that , in the course of the fight , there is a series of threatening gestures , each one of which constitutes a fresh offence . |
| 24 | The plain truth is that in such a situation , when the defendant was actually walking away from the scene , no further breaches of the peace were likely to be occasioned by him . |
| 25 | This test was considered in Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co Ltd v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1308 where Lord Reid , by way of answer to the argument that a standard form of publishing agreement which had stood the test of time was the very same agreement about which the defendant was then complaining , said that this test could only be satisfied when the contracts were " made freely by parties bargaining on equal terms " or " moulded under the pressures of negotiation , competition and public opinion " . |
| 26 | The itinerary was ridiculously demanding . |
| 27 | He has been given time to develop and in a recent interview on TV the trainer was even talking in terms of a possible Grand National victory . |
| 28 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 29 | The idea of staying in a near empty compound in midsummer was scarcely inviting . |
| 30 | At the time of his appointment to PFF , the Command was just getting used to GEE , thought originally to be a bombing aid but really at best an aid to navigation . |