Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 2 | Stock was changing hands for as little as 14½p before the company put out a statement saying it knew of no reason , ‘ other than the general economic climate ’ , for the fall . |
| 3 | In reply , Robert Dahl had no difficulty making it seem that Walker was pinning arguments to him and to others in an arbitrary manner , but in the process some of Walker 's stronger points were diminished — in particular the argument that ‘ political scientists … have overlooked the importance of broadly-based social movements , arising from the public at large , as powerful agents of innovation and change ’ . |
| 4 | There is a possibility , therefore , that Ealhfrith lost his life in a rebellion against his father while Wilfrid was receiving consecration in Gaul . |
| 5 | There were complaints from Lazenby that Diana Rigg was eating garlic before their big love scene . |
| 6 | I 'll find time this morning , ’ Lucy promised , sensing that Jean was seeking approval of the manner in which she kept the chalets . |
| 7 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 8 | Despite his frequent boasts about the progress made under his rule , Ceauşescu was turning Romania into a steadily ‘ under-developing nation ’ ( to use Alec Douglas-Home 's felicitous phrase ) and taking it backwards . |
| 9 | But now 20 years old , the Club was experiencing changes of a sadder kind . |
| 10 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 11 | As it happened Paddington was having trouble about what to buy the Brown family for Christmas and he wished he 'd thought of it himself . |
| 12 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 13 | Bob Elphinston , general manager of the Sydney bid , said the Manchester bid was gaining support among the 91 International Olympic Committee members . |
| 14 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 15 | What he did not tell them was that European Equity Research was pushing shares in a little American advertising agency , " Pilgrim Venture " . |
| 16 | Cray Research was showing parts of its first massively parallel computer , the T3D , specifically the basic board , which will not be available until next year . |
| 17 | Lucy was treating Jay like a delightful new acquaintance she could n't quite place or fit into her life . |
| 18 | This would help to protect the dollar at a time when the United States was experiencing balance of payments problems . |
| 19 | The charge that the USA was abusing , rather than simply using , its position , only had weight to the extent that the United States was putting pressure on central banks abroad not to convert more of their dollars into gold . |
| 20 | A great roar from the 15th green had suggested that Andy Kyle was making amends for his disaster . |
| 21 | In nineteen seventy Richard Branson was making waves as a young businessman , even then he had aspirations to take on the giants . |
| 22 | As they reached the centre of the lion enclosure , a large cage on wheels was ahead of them , and a young woman with a pitchfork was shovelling carcasses of raw meat out through the bars while adult male lions , lionesses and their cubs crowded round . |
| 23 | Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true . |
| 24 | If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else . |
| 25 | Saturday was polling day in the urban centres . |
| 26 | As Mary stood still and watched , she saw , to her amazement , that the car was gathering speed down the slope , instead of slowing up . |
| 27 | A battered estate car was keeping pace with them on a farm track . |
| 28 | The innuendo in this remark proved too much for the petite figure in the front row , who during the last few words was showing signs of unmistakable distress . |
| 29 | And then the stern was lifting higher and higher ; the boat was turning broadside on and heeling right over — and Sam Gristy felt himself being catapulted into the sea . |
| 30 | On the other side of the room , an ancient dame was regarding Theda with a fixed stare while she slowly plied a fan before her face . |