Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was constantly hearing that people were reacting to all this technology , expressing a wish to go back to basics with a simple bow , a look at the wind , an arrow loosed into the heavens and a hope that with luck it might hit the target . |
| 2 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 3 | But his views were dismaying to one of the readers of his discourses , the poet and artist William Blake . |
| 4 | But Infas chief pollster Hans-Juergen Hoffmann said it was wrong to assume that the sudden explosion in neo-Nazi violence meant Germans as a whole were reverting to past attitudes . |
| 5 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 6 | Now according to your theory that you were applying to that |
| 7 | An environmental activist prior to his appointment in 1990 [ see p. 37312 ] , Lutzemberger had been outspoken in his criticism of Brazilian institutions which he believed were contributing to environmental destruction , particularly that of the Amazon rainforest . |
| 8 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 9 | They were looking to each other now anxiously . |
| 10 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 11 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |
| 12 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 13 | Most of the other mourners were listening to this with the same rapt attention they might have accorded a vaguely accurate account of Donald 's life . |
| 14 | Matthew waved his arm at his audience , who were listening to this exchange with come interest . |
| 15 | So I think that what if they care were listening to nominal words about retaining trees and hedges , because trees and hedges have a very clear habit of falling down by accident , |
| 16 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 17 | cos they were listening to some |
| 18 | When the people in Northern Ireland were listening to these matters on the radio , they were wondering why a statement was to be made . |
| 19 | Messages are flying through the ether , coming from every side , like we were listening to twenty stations at once . |
| 20 | ‘ They waited while you were talkin' to that guy , Ben . |
| 21 | One ploy that McGegan has adopted to avoid any unnecessary comparison with Eliot Gardiner is to record , initially at least , Handel 's operas which , being Italian , are very different works from the English oratorios that Philips were releasing to such great acclaim . |
| 22 | Yet poorer peasants in their thousands in this year were turning to private , mainly peasant , lenders , though many Jews were also involved in Belorussia , as we have seen . |
| 23 | Unrest and revolution were in the air , and strikes , sit-ins and lock-outs were leading to political instability and an increasing possibility that the old machine would be destroyed . |
| 24 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 25 | The site needed to be shifted back to the regulation of life itself ; to the study of sound offspring and to the elimination of all those racial poisons ( alcoholism , venereal disease , feeble-mindedness ) which were leading to national degeneration . |
| 26 | Cutbacks were being made in the provision of security which were leading to more cars being stolen and also placing an extra burden on the families who were visiting sick or loved ones . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend is right to mention the strengths of those companies , even when they face difficulties in world markets , and to emphasise the difficulties that they would face at home if a Labour Government were adding to those problems . |
| 28 | Some of them were whispering to each other . |
| 29 | Because , what they were doing , they were going to individual pubs |
| 30 | Vast subsidies were going to uneconomic nationalized industries and local government was heavily overspending . |