Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These analyses were done using several variables , including age ( young or old ) , height , weight , lean body mass , fat free body weight , blood type , H pylori status , and presence of atrophy to determine the relationship of each to subgroups of subjects , serum gastrin concentrations , and acid secretion . |
| 2 | The complete retail sales force attended the conference where presentations were made covering all aspects of selling . |
| 3 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 4 | Around him , knowing people , people who were born eating this stuff , are conversing in that world-weary but photogenic way . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , one would not generally fear someone with diabetes , nor be unduly concerned to employ someone who has diabetes or be worried if one 's daughter were to consider marrying such a person . |
| 6 | In all , a total of 170 identity codes were generated using this method . |
| 7 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 8 | They were standing facing each other in an empty attic room , bare walls squared with the pale imprints of discarded pictures , floorboards harsh to the feet , two naked strangers in a void , herself trying to reach out her hands to touch Stella 's fingers , but unable to lift the heavy monstrous bolsters of flesh that had become her arms . |
| 9 | Pre-dating the National Health Service by over thirty years , in 1916 the Venereal Disease Regulations were passed instructing all local health authorities to provide clinics for the diagnosis and treatment of the venereal diseases . |
| 10 | Ian and Janette Knapman had been advised to take time to say goodbye to their four month old son , but were left cradling another couple 's baby . |
| 11 | Tasks for 18 stations were devised covering some geometrical concepts ( symmetry , constructing three-dimensional shapes ) ; measuring ( length , capacity , mass ) ; money ( change ) ; reading and interpreting a map ; reading tabular data . |
| 12 | If she were to cease believing that … |
| 13 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |
| 14 | The best results were obtained using both methods with absolute methanol fixation at +4°C for 18–24 hours . |
| 15 | To compete for the award a partnership was formed representing all sectors in the town : Private sector : Teesside and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Teesside Tomorrow . |
| 16 | The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England ( Wilson 1976a ) was the first major attempt at synthesis since Leeds in 1913 , but its range was limited ignoring most of the early evidence , and there was very little discussion of method . |
| 17 | During these seven years profit amounting to £3,691 was realised allowing many of the old debts to be cleared . |
| 18 | And Derek was sat waiting all that time , but they must have panicked then so they erm we 'll have to wait and see . |
| 19 | ‘ She was seen walking this way , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In the House of Spring Gardens case , the English proceedings simply lay dormant ; no order was made staying those proceedings on the ground of lis alibi pendens . |
| 21 | An introductory program was written containing these routines , so that the subjects were able to attempt shape input and adjustment , before using the programs illustrating the CAD techniques . |
| 22 | More than £2,000 worth of vandalism was caused to the hall but no evidence was produced connecting this with Oddy . |
| 23 | As a result , another DC was raised describing those modifications . |
| 24 | The only problem was to keep remembering that . |
| 25 | Dave Peacock of Rondar Boats reckons that £250,000 was spent getting all the boats to Dover . |
| 26 | Much of 1990-91 was spent implementing this package . |
| 27 | The second and wider intention was to start investigating some of the basic research issues . |
| 28 | Well I think she felt , as they went I was sitting reading all about horoscopes but they did win . |
| 29 | An 18-foot putt on the 26th by the American meant that Dale Hayes , beaten 11 and 9 by Tom Watson in 1978 , was left holding that particular nettle . |
| 30 | In 1919 a single warrant was signed alleging such an emergency ( the excuse being the threat of Bolshevism ) and interceptions have continued on this basis , with the exception of wartime censorship from 1939–45 , to this day without debate or approval by Parliament . |