Example sentences of "[conj] were [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We examined the mitotic rate of Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells that were proliferating in low serum under the influence of β -oestradiol-activated c-Myc , with and without Bcl-2 expression . |
| 2 | No they 're the twins that were hanging off that young girl were n't they ? |
| 3 | Such fins are similar , in principle , to those of a whole group of primitive bony fish that were living in that remote period when the move to land was first made . |
| 4 | These suspicions have some basis since the network of security relationships that were developing under ASEAN auspices increasingly amounted to a low-profile military association in effect , if not in name . |
| 5 | The national populous actually turned a blind eye to atrocities that were happening with human beings . |
| 6 | Fact recognition method it 's a piece of hardware and one of the things that 's clear actually is that er the Alexander worlds and all sorts of other people that were working on this do n't look at them in this way and they look at these as I say ram blocks . |
| 7 | At the start of the 1980s , it seemed to me that until we knew more about the answers to such questions then it would be hard to compare and make sense out of the varied and possibly conflicting results that were coming from different labs . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'd make anything go , ’ the girl said , a second after reading a paragraph on the front page of Variety about two big London managements — no mention of him — that were bidding against each other for the show . |
| 9 | The House will recall that in the latter part of last year both my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State outlined measures to be taken by both the Government and mortgage lenders with the excellent aim of reducing the level of repossessions that were occurring at that time . |
| 10 | The BBC is seen by Mrs Whitehouse as not only reflecting the changes that were occurring in that period , but also as actively encouraging or even precipitating them . |
| 11 | It is not likely that an organisation would embrace two plans that were pulling against each other . |
| 12 | Mr Rusk replied that the inference that the United States had decided to abandon the Republic of Korea to its enemies was scarcely warranted in the light of the substantial material aid and political support which we had furnished and were furnishing to that Republic . |
| 13 | A rather higher proportion ( 35 per cent ) treated their job as a " Stop-gap " and were looking for other work [ see Table 4.2 ] . |
| 14 | There is reason to think they were also feeling the loss of their carriers that June at the battle of Midway , and were looking for more land bases for aircraft . |
| 15 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 16 | We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year . |
| 17 | Many had no privacy and were living in filthy conditions . |
| 18 | Some engineering companies had experienced a decline in demand for their traditional output and were moving into new areas which , if more buoyant , did not offer the same continuity as those in which they had previously operated . |
| 19 | Detectives say they now believe the three man involved were all travellers … and were staying at various sites like this around Milton Keynes . |
| 20 | Police now considered the case a murder inquiry and were appealing for any information that would lead to the killer . |
| 21 | Thus in 1910 Gates head was identified , along with Coventry and Clydebank , as an area of acute housing need because all three were boom towns and were drawing in massive amounts of labour , attracted by high wages . |
| 22 | Since that time the second patient 's lesion had progressed in such a way that gastrectomy had to be performed in January 1991 and fundic argyrophil cell tumours were discovered in three other patients and were progressing in two of them . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough , however , had taken the sting out of Leicester and were playing with more confidence and control at this stage . |
| 24 | Fifty or sixty parents were present , and were talking in nervous or gushing little groups which centred on one or other of the teachers . |
| 25 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 26 | Lynn Officer , prosecuting , told the court the three owned their vehicles and were working on exclusive contracts for aggregates company Redlands at the time of the offences . |
| 27 | Lynn Officer , prosecuting , told the court the three owned their vehicles and were working on exclusive contracts for aggregates company Redlands at the time of the offences . |
| 28 | They 'd left their aches and pains at the door and were smiling into each other 's eyes . |
| 29 | They had reached the end of Patrick Street and were turning into Grand Parade . |
| 30 | Well I think what people have said to me very often about the Community Charge is that they can see the er they can see the point of having a community charge which everybody pays and which actually brings in to the local taxation system the hundreds of thousands of people who were previously not paying any rates at all but were benefiting from local services . |