Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
| 2 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 3 | Equally , some heads were struggling to deal with colleagues who were challenging by any standards — individuals who were combative , touchy , recalcitrant , bitter , lazy or in any of a variety of other ways uncooperative . |
| 4 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 5 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 6 | transition , erm clearly , er it would be a nonsense if we were making people redundant here ing if er either London or Coventry were struggling to cope with their |
| 7 | Officially , the force was supposed to go in by invitation only ; avoid looking like the heavy mob ; and not humiliate authorities which felt they were hounded because they were struggling to cope on their own . |
| 8 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 9 | These three teachers were struggling to survive in an inner-city school and could not give the evaluation project the kind of commitment it really deserved . |
| 10 | While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease . |
| 11 | Mother Francis had told her that the bold Eve had n't written or telephoned , and that all the Sisters were dying to hear from her . |
| 12 | Some people were having holiday romances : they radiated an air of barefaced sin and were itching to talk about it . |
| 13 | " We 'd easily get the half-five bus , " Timothy said , offering his gums again , blocking their passage and the passage of two elderly women who were endeavouring to pass into the foyer . |
| 14 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 15 | Further on were those who were compelling to listen to ; and above them were those who could make you laugh , too . |
| 16 | Near-by , Pipkin and Dandelion were pretending to feed on a patch of scrub . |
| 17 | The dose equivalence tended to fall with increasing doses of salmeterol indicating that the responses were tending to plateau with the 200 µg dose . |
| 18 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 19 | Because of the market sensitivity of such a decision , ministers were refusing to respond to questions . |
| 20 | The Guardian of June 20 reported that 20,000 Iraqi Kurds in a transit camp near the border in Silopi were refusing to leave for Iraq without guarantees of their safety , and the Turkish authorities reported that a further 12,200 refugees from Iraq were still accommodated in other camps inside Turkey . |
| 21 | She was sobbing hysterically because her children 's friends were refusing to play with them when they were out with her Rottweilers . |
| 22 | Ministers were meeting to get to grips with the strictest public spending controls for years . |
| 23 | I know it has been done , but when , For Ormskirk we wanted , we were looking to interview at the end of the M fifty eight |
| 24 | The Chelsea keeper produced three top-class stops before half-time as Boro threatened to break open the defensive grip Chelsea were looking to keep on the game . |
| 25 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 26 | The , th th th the o the other thing that is I think , I think there is something in this , is that there was , at least within some sections of the peasantry , erm er a , a kind of erm revolutionary zeal which they were building themselves and they were wanting to go beyond the Party . |
| 27 | And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in . |
| 28 | Was this one we were wanting to look at was n't it ? |
| 29 | In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig . |
| 30 | So I think the school is in the position of wanting to think more about the problem of the brighter child , but they certainly were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |