Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we were slowly falling in love , and when one late afternoon Eric kissed me as we were leaving the garden , I was not surprised . |
| 2 | Perhaps in deference to the Greek drama , they were remarkably lacking in plot or incident . |
| 3 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 4 | ‘ I really believe they have not had any capital for twenty years , but were entirely trading on credit . ’ |
| 5 | The conservation measures put forward by the British and Belgian colonial authorities were highly demanding of labour and moreover symbolised the logic of expropriation and more general exploitation by the colonial powers . |
| 6 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 7 | Since those relations were daily growing in importance with the increase in trade , it was becoming more and more essential that all should try and give life to that necessary fiction of government that every man knew the laws of his country . |
| 8 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 9 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 10 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 11 | Many potential customers might feel more comfortable where agencies were not aiming at supervision of their minds . |
| 12 | and these people were not depending on agriculture alone . |
| 13 | The absurdity of the universities ' power to dictate the curriculum to schools catering for children , 90 per cent of whom were not proceeding to university , was manifest . |
| 14 | As regards these latter matters , it will be assumed for the remainder of the chapter , unless the contrary is stated , that a company has capacity to grant the security and that the directors were not acting in breach of their duty to the company or exceeding their authority . |
| 15 | But they were not living as husband and wife . |
| 16 | Whether the graptolites were not living near shore , or whether the conditions were not right for their preservation , are questions that have excited some argument . |
| 17 | I strongly disagree with the letter from Stephen Loveridge ( HAS March 23 ) who claimed that MPs voting for the recent Bill to outlaw fox hunting were not voting against cruelty . |
| 18 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 19 | But he is afraid he have to correct Mr Browne on a matter of geography : the British troops were not waiting for war in the Kuwaiti desert ; that was the Iraqi troops . |
| 20 | He suggested that these came from samples produced by " bandwagon jumpers " who were not complying with Soil Association regulations . |
| 21 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 22 | The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work . |
| 23 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 24 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 25 | Luckily I had some microworm available — they were far too small for the usual Mbuna first foods — and they were soon gaining in size . |
| 26 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 27 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 28 | When Gan was complete , the Britannias , which were just coming into service with the RAF , would be able to reach Singapore without overflying India . |
| 29 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 30 | Bills of exchange , the forerunners of cheques , were just coming into fashion . |