Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were simply too busy doing other things , and although not all were involved in the student tides discussed , a majority of them were devoting their energies to extracurricular activities . |
| 2 | The people who were devoting their lives to transforming society into an egalitarian paradise could not be expected to live like other people who had nothing better on their minds than scratching a living . |
| 3 | In 1338 the northern clergy were to instruct their parishioners about the crucial need for , and inescapable burdens of , defence against the Scots , so that the ‘ pious exhortations ’ of the priests might induce support for a united struggle against the enemies of the realm . |
| 4 | The Pope hinted to the mission that much embarrassment could be avoided if the King were to arrange his divorce without consulting Rome . |
| 5 | Soon three spiders were inching their way along the wall towards a small window on the ground floor . |
| 6 | At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling . |
| 7 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 8 | The troops were given their briefing in the hall . |
| 9 | We were given our books at Milton but we got back . |
| 10 | When White and Davies were building their castles in the Midlands , the game was still mostly amateur . |
| 11 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 12 | I was too young to remember him , but later at intervals a number of remarkable men , among them Arnold Hodson , Hugh Dodds and Arthur Bentinck , served on my father 's staff and were to remain our friends over the years . |
| 13 | Analysts , meanwhile , were not impressed at all , and were downgrading their opinions on the company right , left and centre last week , causing the shares to slip . |
| 14 | ‘ Essentially , they were accusing our movie of being homophobic . |
| 15 | And while they were biding their time over a game of backgammon down in the café , William used to wander through the silent , cluttered rooms where their investment languished , gathering dust . |
| 16 | Because he sat at his desk from early morning until night he was not getting around to see what was happening among the ordinary people : and many of his henchmen were using their positions of power for personal or family advantage . |
| 17 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 18 | The members of the politburo who queued up to pronounce convoluted and mendacious encomiums upon the ‘ hero among the nation 's heroes ’ or his ‘ world-ranking scientist ’ wife were proving their status as political eunuchs . |
| 19 | you were singing your head off non stop |
| 20 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 21 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 22 | The villagers , tired now , were bringing their festivities to an end and streaming back across the green to the tavern or to their homes in search of other pleasures . |
| 23 | Yes , erm , when Harlow was designed , it was appreciated that its , the , its purpose was to house workers in the factories and the offices and also to act as an overspill from London , and in nineteen sixty when Cossors were bringing their workers by the hundreds |
| 24 | The new men were not aping the landed gentry ; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain . |
| 25 | Dave said : ‘ Before the field trip , we were basing our knowledge on a lot of speculation : we had little direct access to data and there was little consensus among academics and the oil industry as to what the source rocks are . ’ |
| 26 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 27 | ‘ You were driving your Daimler on the A614 — southbound — at two a.m. yesterday morning . |
| 28 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 29 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 30 | I was only too aware of the possibility that if any guest were to find his stay at Darlington Hall less than comfortable , this might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness . |