Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1905 , all makers of prerecorded cylinders were marking the actual cylinders with titles by means of a professional lettering process , though the techniques used varied widely from company to company ( 29 ) . |
| 2 | At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded . |
| 3 | Environmentalists welcomed the move , claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem . |
| 4 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 5 | So I would go down there and that 's where I got hip to Van Halen , because all the kids were playing the stupid Eruption solo every day . |
| 6 | Now , faced with the Anglo-Irish accord , the three unionist leaders were again united and Paisley and Molyneaux were working the main street of Bangor to boost Kilfedder 's support . |
| 7 | While councils were defining the central doctrines of the faith , the Fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries were bringing the conceptual equipment of antique thought and the rhetorical techniques of classical literature to its exposition and interpretation . |
| 8 | Initially viewed with doubt , it was not long , however , before most manufacturers were following the French team 's lead and developing turbo-charged engines . |
| 9 | Casualties were mounting by the minute ; in the United Kingdom more and more homes were receiving the brief and dreaded telegram , beginning , ‘ It is my painful duty to inform you … ’ . |
| 10 | At this stage Pons was involved primarily with his job as departmental chairman and was following progress relatively remotely ; Fleischmann and Hawkins were making the detailed investigations . |
| 11 | Imperial preachers were haranguing the coastal populace to destroy … people like Jaq himself , people who would become polluted through no real fault of their own , in many cases . |
| 12 | 1–7 A powerful crane was building a new quay at Ardbeg distillery and a diver was laying the outer walls . |
| 13 | ( It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it . ) |
| 14 | In Lisbon at that precise moment Walter Schellenberg was climbing the steep cobbled alley in Alfama towards the Lights of Lisbon . |
| 15 | Marco was looking the other way . |
| 16 | Already in 1922 , Wheatley was attacking the conventional view that internationalism held the key to ending unemployment : |
| 17 | The German soldier was holding the white flag above his head . |
| 18 | Willingly she would have surrendered the gift of consciousness if only she might drift like these in a blind passion of being , exempt from question ; yet even as she yearned wistfully so , another voice inside her agitated mind was whispering the old caveat from the Rosarium : that all error arose from failure to begin with the proper substance , from a proud forgetfulness that the magisterium is Nature 's work and not the worker 's . |
| 19 | This indicated to him that the tension in his neck was causing the other two problems . |
| 20 | it is , it 's exactly ten years although I reckon like , well , the thing is , these like late bookers like Richard was saying the other day , the flight ones , you du n no where your going |
| 21 | Even while Richard was attending the crusading conference at Le Mans a rebellion broke out in Aquitaine . |
| 22 | All Western diplomats had left Kabul in the weeks leading up to the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36448-50 ] , when the United States was predicting the imminent collapse of the Najibullah regime . |
| 23 | Quakers breathed a sigh of relief when Fashanu 's right-foot blast took a wicked deflection and floated just past the post when Prudhoe was diving the other way , but he was laughing after 39 minutes when the Darlington defence presented him with the most embarrassing gift of the season . |
| 24 | Steven was doing the front lawn |
| 25 | Baden Powell in his Scouting for Boys , published in 1908 , suggests that professional football was betraying the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 26 | Helen said quietly , ‘ That 's exactly what Edward was saying the other day . |
| 27 | ‘ You said the wheelbarrow was doing the natural thing — but it was n't falling . ’ |
| 28 | Its ethereal light was bathing the dizzy drop from the high citadel of Mdina , silvering the hillside and the valley across to the sea . |
| 29 | The morning light was piercing the old house now , sending shafts of pure colour sliding across the floor , making the dust motes dance in and out of the rays . |
| 30 | Along the north bank , the crisp light was sharpening the noble outlines of majestic buildings , although it could do very little for stone blackened by the soot of ages . |