Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 2 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 3 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 4 | On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions . |
| 5 | Referring to the concessions the Danes negotiated in Edinburgh under Britain 's presidency of the European Community , he said : ‘ The Edinburgh concessions were binding in international law , but have no value in Community law , and Community law overrides international law . |
| 6 | Away from the island the wind converted itself into a westerly and we were surfing at ten knots even with two slabs in the main and the genoa furled to almost nothing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ But within half-an-hour we were firing on all cylinders again . ’ |
| 9 | Now the row of islanders , at least two men deep , confronted the stockade where four cannon had been brought to bear on them ; the English forces were firing in furious waves of shot from the top of the stockade . |
| 10 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 11 | Enemy machine guns were firing from all directions . |
| 12 | Guns were firing from both sides across the Harbour and also from ships . |
| 13 | It were raining at five o'clock this morning . |
| 14 | Also , coincidentally , other rebels were gathering in that same year . |
| 15 | Already the national press and media were gathering in this tiny island . |
| 16 | In the academic year 1980–1 , for example , 140,000 students were registered on 1,703 taught CNAA courses and in the same year first degree courses were catering for 123,229 students , representing a rise of 6.2 per cent compared with the previous year . |
| 17 | Hawton and Blackstock ( 1976 ) found that during these visits the doctors had , in most cases , detected symptoms of psychological distress , including anxiety and depression , and were also aware that the patients were contending with social and relationship difficulties . |
| 18 | Later they constructed arches with radiating voussoirs — though they were not the inventors in Europe of this type of construction : the Greeks were building in this way from the fifth century . |
| 19 | It was discovered in the cardiac intensive care unit where 10 children were recovering from open-heart surgery . |
| 20 | We examined the mitotic rate of Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells that were proliferating in low serum under the influence of β -oestradiol-activated c-Myc , with and without Bcl-2 expression . |
| 21 | Set a daunting 248 to win by the tourists , New Zealand were struggling at 94 for four and needing to score at over seven runs an over , but Crowe and a timely 44 not out off 28 balls by teenager Jeff Wilson saw the Kiwis home at 250 for seven . |
| 22 | The saddest story relates to Canoe Store of Emsworth who were struggling like many others . |
| 23 | Because they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they were struggling against tremendous odds , they were struggling against er er all sorts of er er of er of trickery , that er was being conducted by quite a quite a few of the er quite a few of the major powers . |
| 24 | Even in the smaller specific groups , women often felt that they were struggling against thinly-disguised misogyny . |
| 25 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
| 26 | In the event , the general election of 1922 gave the Conservatives an overall majority of 37 , albeit on only 38.2% of the vote , a consequence of the fact that the Conservatives were competing with three other parties-Lloyd George Liberals , independent Liberals , and Labour . |
| 27 | across in swindon yesterday eight hundred of the country 's fittest athletes were competing in one of the summer 's toughest events … the two twenty triathlon … a fifty mile race of endurance |
| 28 | It was a spectacular result for Claire Duffy ( 13 ) , Andrea Murray ( 14 ) , Sioban Simcock ( 13 ) , Lyndsey Green ( 12 ) and Kate Rimmer ( 12 ) who were competing against 17 of the country 's top teams . |
| 29 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 30 | However , the methods that I and other people were using in 1974 were not able to answer questions such as whether singularities would occur in quantum gravity . |