Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the subjects was taking any medication . |
| 2 | According to Wilson , welfare payments were the " prime engine " powering the state 's budget deficit , and the number of welfare recipients was rising four times faster than the population at large . |
| 3 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 4 | Their senior officer , Lieutenant-Commander Norman Teacher RN , was only thirty years old and one of COPPs ' greatest difficulties in the early days was persuading senior command staffs to listen to the young navigators . |
| 5 | The crêpey skin of her old cheeks was flying two spots of colour . |
| 6 | Guiding Lights was showing normal navigation lights but the pitch darkness made distance deceptive and the watchers ashore strained their ears for signs of shore contacts . |
| 7 | Another of John Maggovertski 's failing businesses was taking aerial photographs of rich folk 's houses . |
| 8 | By 1985 GM-EDS was developing such networks in Britain , Germany and elsewhere in Europe ; it was incorporating pre-existing operations in its Vauxhall and Opel subsidiaries and also took over a Unilever system . |
| 9 | One of our greatest pleasures was collecting early morning provisions from the farm . |
| 10 | None of the patients was taking any medication known to interfere with cardiovascular reflexes . |
| 11 | All of the curtains were open , and none of the rooms was showing any light . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Wyatt , I do n't have Garry Turner 's address , and if I did I would n't keep it among my underwear , ’ she said desperately ; the sight of her intimate things in his hands was sending strange shivers down her spine . |
| 13 | The noise in the alleys was deafening that morning , and the smell of the dungheap outside had never been so bad . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , one of the children was carrying this plastic bag , containing what looked like icing sugar . |
| 15 | On the grey market IG Index , the City firm which ‘ bets ’ on the opening value of new share issues was predicting healthy profits on the 100p partly-paid shares . |
| 16 | As the market for such drugs was showing little growth , many drugs firms abandoned antibiotic research . |
| 17 | The elder of these two women was gathering wild flowers , exclaiming as she did so . |
| 18 | When it was realised that the possible use of videos was assuming considerable significance those who answered this question positively were asked for examples as to where it would be helpful . |
| 19 | In the period when these first marine invertebrates were evolving , between 600 and 1000 million years ago , erosion of the continents was producing great expanses of mud and sand on the sea bed around the continental margins . |
| 20 | On the third visit I switched over to the large search coil and within fifteen minutes was holding numerous buttons , buckles , seals , some copper coins and — best of all — a Queen Anne gold guinea . |
| 21 | When they realised that our combined ages was nudging 150 years , one wag said that if he reached our age he would settle for soloing over a stile ! |
| 22 | The combined effect of Perot cutting into Clinton 's support and of evidence that Bush 's standing in the polls was showing some signs of improvement rejuvenated the President 's campaign in the final days of the contest and forced the Democrats to concede that the election could be much closer than had earlier been thought likely . |
| 23 | In mid-1990 researchers from the National Science Foundation in the USA said that they had found evidence that ultraviolet light penetrating the seasonally thinner ozone layer protecting the earth from the sun 's harmful ultraviolet rays was damaging marine life in the oceans around Antarctica . |