Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right at the beginning someone said they were enjoying life at the moment because they were able to do what they wanted to do in Scotland . |
| 2 | As though they were seeing actors on a stage , Seb and Melody watched as one of the two riders suddenly kneed his horse forward . |
| 3 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 4 | Kuwait and Iraq together contain 29% of the Gulf 's oil reserves and , up to 1990 , were producing 27% of the Gulf 's total output . |
| 5 | Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976 , including the massive Brent and Alpha fields . |
| 6 | In 1989 no award was made , partly because the sponsor felt that publishers were submitting books by the distinguished but small group of authors who had already won prizes , and the prize was allowed to lapse until this year . |
| 7 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 8 | As early as 1963 Cubans were helping Algeria in a border conflict with Morocco . |
| 9 | So the L & NWR were building coaches in the same area as Joseph Wright & Sons , at best not a satisfactory arrangement , and a major factor in the decision to transfer this activity to Wolverton . |
| 10 | There were cooking facilities on the boat ? |
| 11 | The Congress of People 's Deputies voted overwhelmingly in favour of renaming the Russian Federation ‘ Russia ’ , but within minutes members from the republics which make up the huge state were demanding restoration of the word ‘ federation ’ . |
| 12 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 13 | At that time several scholars , notably William Hoskins and Maurice Beresford , were drawing attention to the large number of deserted medieval settlements which could be seen in the landscape . |
| 14 | However , there was substantial US Congressional opposition to a free trade pact with Mexico ; the US unions and the citrus and textile industries were drawing attention to the job losses which such an agreement could entail for the USA , while environmental groups lobbied to warn of the implications of Mexico 's less stringent controls on industry . |
| 15 | The fundamental problem faced by US business was that rivals in Europe and Japan were accumulating capital at a far faster rate ( figure 10.4 ) and were doing so on the basis of far lower wage costs ( table 10.5 ) . |
| 16 | The carts had been moved to one side , and now slaves were attaching torches to the arched wooden frames . |
| 17 | This procedure was used when the trainees were completing exercises on the Smith family . |
| 18 | By 5pm , the bridal pair were speeding south to the Princess 's Gatcombe Park estate in the Cotswolds . |
| 19 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 20 | The moral confusion bred in the late 1960s lingered and the Left were gaining strength in the SPD with criticisms of the US alliance , authoritarianism in the state and environmental problems . |
| 21 | But another quite plausible explanation presents itself : here was a lady whose role in life was changing , whose function as a mother and whose status — if we may call it that — as a widow were becoming things of the past . |
| 22 | BY the time Mark Wright lifted the FA Cup on Saturday even those outside the North-East were becoming sick of the spoon-fed memories of 1973 . |
| 23 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 24 | Both were founding members of the popular organization , the BPR , in 1975 . |
| 25 | Nearly 40 years ago these two were trading bullets over the river Potong-Gang , and sometimes it is not far short of hostilities when they trade shots on the pitch . |
| 26 | Under s393(9) , excess charges on income arising in the final accounting period of a vendor company can be deducted as if they were trading losses for the purpose of carry-back or carry-across of losses , whereas charges on income can usually be deducted only in the accounting period in which they are paid ( though excess charges on income can be group relieved where the vendor is a member of a group of companies within s402 TA 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Anni only learned to ride four years ago and later this year she and Floriano were representing Britain at the Equestrian Games in Stockholm . |
| 28 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 29 | Civil engineers were checking damage at the site yesterday . |
| 30 | I thought , well , they were trumpeting Ade for the gold medal . |