Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India and Pakistan were hotly disputing ownership of the 1,500-mile Indus River in 1968 when he announced the UN-sponsored Indus Basin project to share water supplies for new power stations . |
| 2 | Tim Haggie , of Latimer Hinks 's commercial department , said more clients were now needing specialist advice on European matters . |
| 3 | So , for example , in 1978 , quite small traders were already moving money out of Libya for their close kinsmen as well as on their own account . |
| 4 | Patients who had repeated 24 hours pH monitoring at the second stage of the study were still taking omeprazole 40 mg/day but all other drugs were withheld for at least 48 hours beforehand . |
| 5 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 6 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 7 | Mr Ladislav Lis , of the Forum , said the talks , in which the smaller political parties were also taking part , could produce quick agreement . |
| 8 | Hunter headed clear to deny Norris his hat-trick and by the end the Dragons were hardly breathing fire . |
| 9 | Her feet were still dancing tap , tap , tap , on the floor of the bus . |
| 10 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 11 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 12 | Fortunately for the British government the West Germans themselves were divided or uncertain on the question of MLF , while its proponents in Washington were also losing ground . |
| 13 | In the first place , even in the early 1980s , the more rural areas were still gaining population far more rapidly than the nation as a whole , and the more general process of deconcentration from the metropolitan counties and from the largest settlements in non-metropolitan counties was still continuing apace . |
| 14 | If Smart 's hyperactivity and conviviality were already causing comment — and the mention of Bedlam suggests a degree of exaggeration in these tendencies — at least he had the protection of his College and his friends while he remained in Cambridge . |
| 15 | The watchers were now bellowing encouragement to each of the players in a game which had taken a new turn . |
| 16 | On May 13 it was reported that Taylor 's forces had received a cargo of military equipment from Libya through the port of Buchanan , and that the rebels were freely using supply routes through Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 17 | Meanwhile President Félix Houphouët-Boigny had on March 5 rejected the idea of a multiparty state , as was being demanded during continuing protests in which civil servants and striking workers were increasingly joining student demonstrators . |
| 18 | Er says er it would that diamond tool were only sending dust copper dust . |
| 19 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |
| 20 | At Berlin and GHQ Charleville-Mézières , the Kaiser 's appearances were becoming so infrequent that even his senior counsellors were openly expressing disapproval at his aloofness from the war . |
| 21 | And this band were just getting encore after f***ing encore ; it was really good stuff , a real grunge-fest . |
| 22 | This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War . |
| 23 | Back at school , great changes were also taking place . |
| 24 | Changes were also taking place in the central management of the Course . |
| 25 | In reality , the project was implemented in schools in which a variety of curricular , extra-curricular and infrastructural changes were already taking place . |
| 26 | More changes were now taking place and further pilots were rested . |
| 27 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 28 | Our assailants were now shooting fire arrows and these were already causing havoc amongst the defenders . |
| 29 | In his address , televised live to nearly 60 countries , he also expressed concern about the situation in the Middle East and Liberia and gave thanks that the starving Somalis were finally receiving aid . |
| 30 | Twenty-one of Lafontant 's alleged accomplices were also standing trial on the same charge . |