Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 2 | But he argued : ‘ I do n't know why the fans were having a go at me . |
| 3 | However most walkers were enjoying the view of me with a glove covered in steaming soup and a face streaming with tears . |
| 4 | It is , for example , remarkable that almost half of all medical students are women , when as recently as 1974 medical schools were operating a quota system to keep women out . |
| 5 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 6 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |
| 7 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 8 | In the papers the next day it looked as if the funeral parlour heads were sanctioning the transfer of power , as if they were acknowledging Creed 's pre-eminence , as if they were paying homage . |
| 9 | At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point . |
| 10 | The designers were facing the question : - Can the search space be kept within manageable proportions until this disambiguating information is reached , or should one try to find the ‘ narrow ’ point and start from there ? |
| 11 | As the rain beat a dull rhythm on Milan 's sludge-coloured buildings this spring , Italian designers were proclaiming the return of brilliant colour behind the facades of the word 's most industrial fashion capital . |
| 12 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |
| 13 | In the first week of the campaign only 5 per cent of television 's election news focused on defence , only 3 per cent of the electorate thought the parties were stressing the issue , and only 3 per cent wished them to do so . |
| 14 | Opposite the Italian Village , the Norwegians were building a hospital but had to leave because of lack of supplies . |
| 15 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 16 | Er there were lots of er little panes broken before but er whether our lads were having a bit of a pot shot . |
| 17 | Hundreds of candidates were chasing every vacancy in higher education and were ready to take any place offered . |
| 18 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 19 | Four grey eyes were demanding an explanation . |
| 20 | Hector 's head turned as if his eyes were seeking the abbot . |
| 21 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 22 | Up three floors in the elevator , and away down the long corridor that was chaos because the electricians were rewiring the floor , and on to the security gate into Bureau territory . |
| 23 | By December 1321 the king was touring the country ostensibly ‘ to restore order ’ — while Lancaster and the Marchers were demanding the abandonment of favourites by the king . |
| 24 | She could feel the warmth of his breath , knew the savage lips were threatening a kiss , promising … |
| 25 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 26 | We met at a meeting of the North Yorkshire Road Racing Support Group ( in Northallerton Rugby Club ) where the moped messengers were spreading the word that life begins at 50 . |
| 27 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 28 | Fierce Eyes was whirling the lure around his head . |
| 29 | At least Pathfinder is still going strong and Writers & Readers was making a comeback . |
| 30 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |