Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demographic acceleration of the second half of the century depressed them quite sharply , except in those areas in the North and Midlands where manufacturing change and expansion were locally creating a different labour market . |
| 2 | Many felt that the Committee members were merely providing a rubber stamp for Government decisions . |
| 3 | Others would share the view of many countrymen , that Sam and his family were merely taking a reasonable share of what the fells and waters surrounding their home offered them . |
| 4 | We were all having a furious argument about who should be there to land this enormous tip and while we were doing that , his Royal Highness sort of sneaked out and did n't give anything to any of us . |
| 5 | Besides , he had no sympathy with the Black and Tans ' methods — they were only making a bad situation worse . |
| 6 | This caused much grumbling and complaining , as the masons considered they were anyway fighting a losing battle against the castle 's accelerating decay without its guests adding to their workload . |
| 7 | The scale of his new responsibility was illustrated last week by two estate workers who were laboriously repairing a broken stretch of the eight-mile-long stone wall that surrounds Althorp . |
| 8 | Zoff , one of the biggest names in Italian football , clarified the whole situation when he said : ‘ We were just discussing a technical point . |
| 9 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 10 | They were just having a peaceful protest , sitting there and linking arms : no threats or fear of violence . |
| 11 | ‘ The victims were just having a good time . ’ |
| 12 | We were just having a hot drink . |
| 13 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 14 | One by one he checked them off on his register , letting them stagger out into the corridor where the ghouls who liked disasters were already forming a pressing crowd . |
| 15 | The evidence suggests that the writers were already considering a cheap grade ‘ B ’ picture about Ku-Klux-Klan and Black Legion activities when the notorious trial of four workmen in Detroit made executions carried out by such organizations a matter of national attention . |
| 16 | But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in . |
| 17 | The magazine poetry of the 1790s frequently deals with similar subject-matter , and poets were already using a wide variety of metrical forms , including ballads . |
| 18 | The centralized bureaucratic apparatus of the state became subordinated to the interests of the dominant economic groups that were already creating a commercial agriculture and would subsequently promote industrial development : ‘ for the first time a state had been created whose policies and activities were shaped in response to the needs and movement of civil society ’ ( Gamble 1981 : 67 ) . |
| 19 | Even in the peripheral Hiberno-British province they were already displaying a notable capacity for innovation at an early stage of the local Bronze Age . |
| 20 | By 1914 , France and Germany were already producing a fair number of motor-cars . |
| 21 | Women who were already paying a reduced rate contribution were however allowed to continue doing so . |
| 22 | ‘ We were able to draw on our experience in academic bookselling , and demonstrate to the Hallam that we were already running a successful academic bookshop in Sheffield . |
| 23 | Business began to boom , but the MS & L were already planning a new terminus over the Wicker arches and on 15th September 1851 , Victoria opened its doors . |
| 24 | Those who died while protecting the Lithuanian parliament from Soviet tanks and the ‘ black beret ’ crack troops were hardly imagining a great role for Lithuania in world councils : they just wanted their country to run its own affairs without foreign domination , which they have now achieved . |
| 25 | FORENSIC experts were yesterday examining a decomposed forearm found wrapped in bandages and dumped in a back garden . |
| 26 | Other locals were yesterday keeping a low profile , preserving the privacy requested by the couple . |
| 27 | The royal authority was being challenged not only by princes but by a growing menace of another kind , the increasing number of freelance soldiers , or routiers , who were gradually becoming a characteristic force in French society , reflecting the faltering grip of lawfully-established authority . |
| 28 | George and John , who started with a modern fun pub , discovered they were forever seeking a traditional pub for a good pint on their days off , so they decided to start their own . |
| 29 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 30 | But the chance survival of a record of a miracle on Easter Day not long before Lanfranc 's arrival shows that the monks were still giving a dramatic representation of the three women at the tomb searching for the risen Lord as laid down in the Regularis Concordia . |