Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and the others — when they let their capes fall open-were wearing one-piece outfits of a lighter and duller blue than their capes , with black boots and belts . |
| 2 | Most of the Jokaero spy-flies were transmitting tiny facets of war 's aftermath within the city , a grim mosaic . |
| 3 | Detectives were manning special hotline phones after a tape was broadcast on BBC 1 's Crimewatch UK in the hope that someone may recognise Britain 's most wanted man . |
| 4 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 5 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 6 | A quiet that was close to let-down replaced the wild bustle of the preparation but they were enjoying each other 's company , the animal comfort of other presences , banishment of loneliness . |
| 7 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 8 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 9 | Meanwhile less than 20 miles away , St Johnstone , a team with a less prestigious history were enjoying increased attendances , a newly won Premier status , record profits and were warmly ensconced in a purpose built all-seater stadium . |
| 10 | Four years ago Pepsi and Shirlie were enjoying considerable chart success and media attention . |
| 11 | ‘ It is an open secret that they were seeing each other regularly until all hell broke loose back in the summer , ’ said a source close to Camilla last night . |
| 12 | and I ca n't remember what , the last time we were seeing each other it |
| 13 | Nonetheless he believed that they were seeing genuine effects that were inexplicable unless fusion were taking place . |
| 14 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 15 | The conclusions were challenged by Mr Joe Rich , chairman of the British Dental Association 's General Dental Services Committee , who said it was ‘ probably true ’ that more teeth were being extracted because dentists were seeing more patients . |
| 16 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 17 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 18 | BY last night two teachers were outstripping all others in the race to be Teacher of the Year . |
| 19 | The official statistics revealed that even legal abortions were outstripping live births in the 1980s . |
| 20 | Both factions were firing anti-aircraft guns and large-calibre machine guns indiscriminately at civilian housing . |
| 21 | Tracer laid stitches across the sky : the bombers still in formation were firing long shots at him . |
| 22 | Whilst dealers were firing difficult questions at the representative of an CTC traded company on the floor of one licensed dealer a couple of light fingered dealers were at work , helping themselves to their colleagues leads . |
| 23 | Also , from his many comments about violent reactions to remedies , the sensitive patients he saw , were producing undesirable aggravations which he constantly sought to escape from . |
| 24 | W. B. Glover maintains in his valuable study of Nonconformist reaction to ‘ higher criticism ’ that ‘ by 1900 the Nonconformists were producing biblical scholars with international reputations ’ . |
| 25 | Routine patrols were producing regular revenue seizures , mostly of tobacco goods and spirits as a result of interceptions of yachts , fishing vessels and rummages of merchant ships within the various ports visited . |
| 26 | This meant that wages fell sharply in the coal exporting districts of South Wales and the North East but remained the same in the new and expanding south Yorkshire coalfield , where new and deeper mines were producing high quality coal for the home market . |
| 27 | The colonists had enough newspapers to take any visiting Englishman aback , and were developing industries fast enough to disturb the balance of the integrated commercial system : in 1699 Americans were forbidden to spin woollens for export , even to another colony ; in 1732 a similar limitation was placed on the manufacture of hats and caps ; and in 1750 the Iron Act allowed them to smelt iron ore into pig iron but forbade them to go any further in processing it , though in the event the American colonies were producing more iron and steel than Britain by 1775 . |
| 28 | The men were paid a rate depending upon the nature of the ground and were producing 2½ tons a week , giving a yield of 2–3 cwt. of metal in the ton but none more than 3 . |
| 29 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 30 | The weaver bird study suggested that the motivational systems of individual members of different species were producing contrasting strategies of dispersion and pair formation neatly graded to suit environmental conditions . |