Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India and Pakistan were hotly disputing ownership of the 1,500-mile Indus River in 1968 when he announced the UN-sponsored Indus Basin project to share water supplies for new power stations . |
| 2 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 3 | While he was doing this , Deuce was gaily cascading powder into the bath , now and then yelling out , ‘ Just a little bit more ! |
| 4 | My Aunt Lyallie was also spending Christmas with us , so our little house was rather crowded . |
| 5 | Fortunately for the British government the West Germans themselves were divided or uncertain on the question of MLF , while its proponents in Washington were also losing ground . |
| 6 | Othon Pinheiro da Silva , and the chairman of the National Commission for Nuclear Energy ( CNEN ) , Rex Nazaré Alves , were quoted in the daily O Globo of April 9 , 1989 , as confirming that Brazil was now producing uranium enriched to 20 per cent ( regarded as the threshold of nuclear weapons technology ) . |
| 7 | Wordsworth was soon writing verse with greater confidence than ever before . |
| 8 | The resolution to this , I believe , lies in the fact that Ms. Archibald was mistakenly associating loyalty and admiration with politics , whereas it was in fact simple jingoism . |
| 9 | Two years earlier the CEGB was vigorously rewriting history . |
| 10 | Disillusionment with the USSR was also gathering momentum in the United States . |
| 11 | But while Whitehall changed from organizing public expenditure on an annual basis to a five-year rolling programme , the House of Commons was still authorizing expenditure on the old twelve-month pattern . |
| 12 | Matthew was still repairing damage from the wind-storm , cutting fallen trees into logs for the lodge 's many fireplaces . |
| 13 | At the bar Victor was busily dispensing kick-start coffees and hair-of-the-dog cognacs to a huddle of regulars taking late breakfast or early lunch . |
| 14 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |
| 15 | ( And who is to say that she was not a little piqued that her younger sister Shirley was already planning marriage ? ) |
| 16 | Dolores was still eating pudding |
| 17 | Venturous was already making cutter history with her size , speed of sixteen knots and the latest electronic gadgetry such as radar , Decca Navigator and modern communication equipment . |
| 18 | Ralph Pike was positively radiating doom by now and in a country like Latvia such radiations are quickly picked up . |
| 19 | The first and only Royal Commission on Population ( 1949 ) , was set up in 1944 to see if Britain was indeed facing population decline and to ‘ consider what measures , if any , should be taken in the national interest to influence the future trend of population ’ . |
| 20 | As the Lord Mayor Albert was also returning officer on the night and so was the first to see the result . |
| 21 | It rejected a letter from Aziz announcing compliance with some , but not all , of the resolutions , although Iraq was reportedly declaring willingness to comply with Resolution 660 on unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 22 | McIllvanney was certainly making money from somewhere . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw Kylie do the Stock/Aitken/Waterman thing and Jason went down that same road , and I realised I was n't going to do anything musical while I was with Neighbours , because Kylie and Jason were just copping flak from everywhere . |
| 24 | Later we learn that he used a pencil : Faber in Germany were already making graphite rods . |
| 25 | At the same time a polarisation of opinion in Aquitaine was gradually taking place , largely in favour of English rule , and by 1337 tension had reached a high level . |
| 26 | In any case , Twoflower was delightedly taking picture after picture of people engaged in what he described as typical activities , and since a quarter-rhinu would subsequently change hands ‘ for their trouble ’ a tail of bemused and happy nouveaux-riches was soon following him in case this madman exploded in a shower of gold . |
| 27 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 28 | In respect of the Cossacks , Robertson was simply giving authorization to Eighth Army to carry out a course of action suggested by Eighth Army and " recommended by Macmillan " . |
| 29 | Argentina , Uruguay and the countries of central America were reportedly taking emergency steps to prevent the entry of cholera through public education campaigns and increased border surveillance of suspected carriers . |
| 30 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |