Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 2 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |
| 3 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 4 | Girls were sometimes called apprentices , more often simply " learners " : indicating that they were not really acquiring a skill , just " learning on the job " , which was the standard training for most semi-skilled occupations . |
| 5 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 6 | We were just both admiring a lovely antique bureau . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Oliver and his fellow rebel leaders were yesterday already planning a strong letter urging a yes vote to be sent to all MCC members , who include the Prime Minister and well-known celebrities like Gary Lineker , Harold Pinter and Tim Rice . |
| 8 | The newspapers were once more having a heyday . |
| 9 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |
| 10 | If you were n't actually having a ‘ sleep-argument ’ you were probably dreaming about having one . |
| 11 | By the time that Edward Heath had to appoint a chairman twenty years later , he chose Professor Michael ( later Lord ) Swann , Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University , on the grounds that running the BBC was rather like running a university , with a ferment of ideas , plenty of eccentricity and troublesome students . |
| 12 | It was only when using a ‘ test ’ version of the system ( available just before the planned implementation date ) that difficulties would come to light , and a host of change requests be issued . |
| 13 | It was only when doing a post-mortem that they discovered the two small puncture marks side by side on her left buttock . |
| 14 | The ratio of seats won was 17:9:1 , yet the spread of votes was much closer producing a rough ratio of 3:2 : 2 . |
| 15 | I mean , in a much more , erm , a le a less severe example , but we 're having a Road Safety Week , at school , this week , erm , and it was my class 's turn , yesterday afternoon , so I was just there keeping a watching brief with my my children while the , road safety representative was talking to them , and she put them us through the usual hoops of erm , did any of them play on the roadside un unattended . |
| 16 | Afghanistan , it was argued , was anyway actively conducting a policy of ‘ positive neutrality ’ among the group of non-aligned countries , which was fixed in the ‘ Basic Principles ’ of the DRA . |
| 17 | He was not even wearing a watch and he needed a shave . |
| 18 | But God was not just providing a memory to cling to . |
| 19 | It was not just launching a perfume , it was giving birth to a perfume , ’ said she , who had definitely seen the shape of the bottle but still chose to stick with this metaphor . |
| 20 | In an industry where communication of information between different levels is vital to effective management ( a factor reported as by no means negligible in Government inquiries into construction industry disasters ) , this project was not only fulfilling a real educational need , but also illustrating the justification for us to include communication skills within the scope of information skills . |
| 21 | As one senior figure put it , ‘ She was not really running a team . |
| 22 | That is to say that although he was clearly not endorsing a militaristic brand of Rambo-style Christianity — say , fighting modern crusades against Muslims , or shooting atheists — he was insisting that to be a Christian meant to be a person engaged in the Great Battle . |
| 23 | The change of emphasis which is implied in this silence is confirmed by the negotiations of the next few years : Pascal was clearly already preparing a withdrawal from the extreme position adopted by his predecessor . |
| 24 | She was probably out getting a paper . |
| 25 | No matter how much Signe varied the speed , Harvey 's hand was up there providing a wall against which her hand smacked , until he snatched his hand away and she toppled into his arms . |
| 26 | This once mighty state was now again becoming a major power in Europe , thanks less to its nominal ruler , Philip V , than to his prime minister , Cardinal Giulio Alberoni . |
| 27 | She was n't even wearing a bra . |
| 28 | Six o'clock this morning I was n't really asking a lot of questions . |
| 29 | Shaney was n't actually playing a game , but she was sitting next too a women that was . |
| 30 | 2 Novella was n't only drawing a veil over her beauty , but over her femaleness , synonymous — in the descendance of Eve — with seductiveness ; and , even more fatally , with folly . |