Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were helping to break down the barriers to access for those companies , such as small scale , under capitalisation , lack of knowledge of quality assurance and shyness in making approaches to the big operators . |
| 2 | People were queueing to get in , but without ration stamps . |
| 3 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 4 | Reports from the Wehrmacht ‘ Armaments Inspectorates ’ claimed that workers on reserved occupations in armaments factories did not want to be left out of the army and were pressing to join up . |
| 5 | Many were seeking to get out while they could , so many indeed that Ramsay feared that they must be seen by the blockading English ships lying off , for the July night was less dark than he could have wished . |
| 6 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 7 | Robert Gray has analysed marriage patterns in late nineteenth-century Edinburgh and concludes that by the end of the period , patterns of segregated intermarriage as between the families of skilled " and " unskilled " workers were tending to break down . |
| 8 | Later in July it was reported that factories in some regions , facing the unaccustomed pressure to make a profit , were refusing to lend out their workers to provide the usual help in bringing in the potato and vegetable harvests . |
| 9 | Seventeen people died in armed clashes in Palestinian-controlled areas east of Sidon on Feb. 15 , when members of Fatah suppressed a rebellion by other Fatah regulars who were refusing to hand over their positions to the Lebanese army . |
| 10 | He claimed British Steel and ICI were refusing to hand over analytical information on their emissions to solicitors acting for 28 local , asthmatic families a refusal he claimed was ‘ a scandal ’ . |
| 11 | We did not get a written reply , however , via our National Secretary we heard our letter had been misconstrued and we were wanting to opt out . |
| 12 | Filmmakers were attempting to link in to contemporary realities . |
| 13 | It arose from a chance encounter at one of the regular community meetings of the YCCC held at a time when they were attempting to reach out to any and all sorts of assistance in solving their pollution problem . |
| 14 | The poverty-stricken Spanish people were attempting to shake off the shackles and feudalism imposed mainly by the Catholic church . |
| 15 | People kept phoning up , after the body had been removed , and Dyson and Bob were rushing to catch up and finish preparing the copy that had to be set overnight . |
| 16 | Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions , when cyclists were waiting to set off or just starting to pedal . |
| 17 | Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions where cyclists were waiting to set off , or just starting to pedal , said Mr Hillcoat . |
| 18 | Almost 9 per cent of the men aged between twenty and sixty-four resident in England and Wales during the 1983 survey reported that they were unemployed , and this total excluded those who were waiting to take up jobs . |
| 19 | Several English clubs were waiting to step in , but Chapman outwitted them all . |
| 20 | There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you were going to call in , ’ he remarked . |
| 22 | The order came at the end of the summer term and , just as the holidays were beginning , the teacher who was going to replace my father arrived to see what kind of strange specimens he was going to land among and what sort of house he and his family were going to live in . |
| 23 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 24 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 25 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 26 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 27 | ‘ I just got the impression you were going to go on arguing all night . ’ |
| 28 | Had you any had you any clue at all that they were going to go back ? |
| 29 | Oh yes , we were going to go out but bother . |
| 30 | I asked how we were going to wake up because I for one did n't have an alarm clock on me , and he said , ‘ Always wake up when I want . |