Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er says er it would that diamond tool were only sending dust copper dust . |
| 2 | Time you were away playing toy soldiers , who do you think looked after this house and the estate ? |
| 3 | There was some evidence from those who were already training group members that the ATB did not always advertise its services effectively . |
| 4 | Springfield returned the radio to his pocket and turned to the others , who were already checking magazine loads . |
| 5 | Later we learn that he used a pencil : Faber in Germany were already making graphite rods . |
| 6 | Fonda was rocketed to stardom , and posters of him astride his bike were quickly outselling star portraits of Brando , Newman and McQueen . |
| 7 | At home , improvements in urban sanitation and hygiene in hospitals were gradually raising health standards . |
| 8 | A number were still pursuing court cases against SWWA at the time of writing . |
| 9 | Maybe they were still eating cabinet pudding in those days . |
| 10 | Police were still evacuating hotel guests and residents , including many pensioners , from nearby homes to safety when the detonator went off . |
| 11 | Of those patients still alive at follow up between four and 12 years later , 89% had a normal haemoglobin concentration , and only 23% of these were still receiving iron treatment . |
| 12 | In those days the major brewers were busily promoting keg beer , a chilled , filtered and pasteurised apology for traditional draught beer . |
| 13 | Over last winter all the stud holes were drilled out and re-tapped and recently volunteers were busily repositioning support timbers to work on an area of rust on the front ring . |
| 14 | All sections of British society were clearly reducing family size — though for varying reasons if one accepts Angus McLaren 's analysis . |
| 15 | They were also wearing safety helmets . ’ |
| 16 | They were also organising business planning courses for their doctors and dentists . |
| 17 | Police were also examining video tapes which may help them find those responsible . |
| 18 | Oil workers , demanding a 104 per cent increase , were also planning strike action . |
| 19 | Duncan Orr Ewing , an RSPB officer , recently said egg thieves were now using climbing spikes to rob nests in high trees . |
| 20 | It was pressed upon us that local authorities were now performing law enforcement functions of their own . |
| 21 | Tim Haggie , of Latimer Hinks 's commercial department , said more clients were now needing specialist advice on European matters . |
| 22 | Our assailants were now shooting fire arrows and these were already causing havoc amongst the defenders . |
| 23 | of the tenanted pubs of the national brewers were now offering guest beers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile President Félix Houphouët-Boigny had on March 5 rejected the idea of a multiparty state , as was being demanded during continuing protests in which civil servants and striking workers were increasingly joining student demonstrators . |
| 26 | On May 13 it was reported that Taylor 's forces had received a cargo of military equipment from Libya through the port of Buchanan , and that the rebels were freely using supply routes through Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 27 | We were a little unsure ourselves whether were actually doing scheme work or design . |
| 28 | I mean just when you think about it they they were actually following estate agents when they went out to value a property . |
| 29 | Outside critics , of which the most devastating was the Oxford economist Ian Little , had no difficulty in showing that their arguments ‘ fail to wriggle out of the obvious ’ , which was that much of the domestic thermal load was being sold below cost and was thereby winning heating markets which could be more efficiently supplied by alternative fuels at lower overall national cost . |
| 30 | So many critics wanted Modern Times to be a satire on capitalism whereas Chaplin was merely using factory production and the depression as a back-cloth for a series of impish gags . |