Example sentences of "[adj] were [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight per cent of women aged 18 — 49 were cohabiting in 1988 , and over 20 per cent of those had never been married ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 2 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 3 | The studio was full ; most of the students were painting from the model , a few were drawing from still life . |
| 4 | Some were suffering from post-parturition melancholy , some from the effects of withdrawal from Valium ; many were single mothers and many the victims of spouse or ‘ partner ’ abuse . |
| 5 | Some were waiting for spare parts from Cairo , some were waiting on instructions from their owners , some were going downriver . |
| 6 | A survey of 124 homeless men using a Salvation Army hostel found that over half were suffering from mental disorders but only seven had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year . |
| 7 | How could one of the richest islands of the Philippines become the setting for another Ethiopia , where an estimated 85,000 children under six were suffering from moderate or severe malnutrition ? |
| 8 | In spite in a slowing in the growth of medium-priced sailing yachts , all the larger were concentrating on this section of the market with new or revamped models of 30 to 35 feet ( 9.1 to 10.7m ) . |
| 9 | It seemed that , all around her , things were changing — old , beloved routines that had felt safe and comfortable were decaying into new patterns . |
| 10 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 11 | Many were living in sixteenth and seventeenth century cottages with hardly any mod cons . |
| 12 | As a result four of the seven stations proposed by Sir William Hillary in 1824 were functioning within six years , a very short time in reality . |
| 13 | and nine out of ten were suffering from severe depression . |
| 14 | Of his 8 previous Ulster supporters , 4 had gone down in defeat , I did not re-stand and 3 were marching under new orders which forbade them to give support as in the past . |
| 15 | Well , Oxford United were trailing by three goals to nil at half time , they came back to draw three three . |
| 16 | The years before and immediately after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 were unsettling for experimental painters . |
| 17 | As rapporteur of the Commission which was considering national and colonial questions , Lenin made it clear it was essential to achieve the closest alliance of all national and colonial liberation movements with Soviet Russia : indeed the former were learning from bitter experience that their only salvation lay in alliance with the revolutionary proletariat and in the triumph of Soviet power over world imperialism . |
| 18 | The nine were travelling in two Warrior armoured infantry vehicles when they were fired on by an A-10 " tankbuster " war plane . |
| 19 | Four out of five of the 11. 6 million children aged under 16 in Britain in 1986 were living with both their natural parents ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | By mid-March as many as 210,000 were living in makeshift camps in Bangladesh and the numbers entering were increasing daily amid reports of mass killings , forced conscriptions and torture in Arakan province . |
| 21 | RECENTLY the two leading building society house price indexes those of the Halifax and the Nationwide were pointing in different directions , one up and one down . |
| 22 | Julie Ndobe , Shmuel Zehavi and Teal Green were talking in low voices . |
| 23 | Most were living in poor conditions in refugee camps in the Cox 's Bazar district . |
| 24 | So they both were searching for some lost part of themselves this summer . |