Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home side were lacking a key bowler too , in seamer Willie Watson , whose absence with a thigh strain was to prove a chronic handicap to Crowe . |
| 2 | There were loads of light vans in the Mirror livery parked on both sides of the street and the pubs down one side were doing a roaring end-of-shift trade — or maybe pre-shift . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Katharine cantered Benji in a smaller and smaller circle , keeping a strong outside rein so that his hind legs were marking a smaller circle and working towards a canter pirouette . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 7 | Environmentalists welcomed the move , claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem . |
| 8 | The Japanese were successfully entering into many of the most sensitive markets in the EC ( e.g. cars , consumer electronic equipment , computing equipment ) , and the NICs were becoming an increasing threat to many of the industries of the member states . |
| 9 | The article went on to say that staff employed in the tourist industry were getting a raw deal , and that the government should take a hard line and introduce new legislation on taxation for the hotel industry . |
| 10 | Kindred associations in the funeral industry were feeling the same . |
| 11 | In accepting the payments the revenue were doing no more than agreeing that they would not be treated as prejudicing any such right . |
| 12 | The residual swells coming over the reef were causing a moderate surf on the beach : I needed to reconnoitre , weighing up the possibility of swamping before taking the children in . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fifty-two of those earning $500,000 in the United States were paying no federal tax at all . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Edward and Arthur Hardy were spending a short farm holiday at Horsmonden , a 2½ hour train journey away from Margate . |
| 19 | Ed and Johnny were enjoying an unimaginative platter of boiled sprouts . |
| 20 | Gurder and Angalo were having a blazing row when Masklin got back . |
| 21 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 22 | The Midland 's branches were making an average profit of less than £7,000 each , compared with almost £10,000 at Barclays , National Westminster and Lloyds . |
| 23 | Initially viewed with doubt , it was not long , however , before most manufacturers were following the French team 's lead and developing turbo-charged engines . |
| 24 | Visibility on both motorways was down to 50 yards but some drivers were speeding a few feet from the vehicle in front . |
| 25 | Some of the drivers were making an obvious effort to remember to drive on the left . |
| 26 | At a special ceremony at Leeds Cathedral on the first Sunday of Lent , the Bishop said the candidates were making an important statement . |
| 27 | She had the feeling that those dark brown eyes were noting every little detail , from the bright flush of her skin to the faint quiver of her lower lip . |
| 28 | 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 … ’ . |
| 29 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 30 | By 1500 BC , the metal workers of Crete were producing a large range of cooking and storage utensils , including some large cauldrons made by riveting together several bronze sheets : some fine examples were found at Tylissos . |