Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 2 | But a closer look at the video recording showed that both men were helping each other to drive . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's letter spelled out Mr Patten 's concern that councils were helping hostile groups fight opt outs with misinformation campaigns . |
| 4 | You said they were building another garage did n't you ? |
| 5 | So she crammed six big fellers into her front room , sat them down with rum and blankets , and the whole bunch snuggled up like they were queueing all night to buy tickets for the Test Match . |
| 6 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 7 | It is not , perhaps , surprising that the younger Despenser feared his opponents were using unorthodox methods to get rid of him . |
| 8 | More disturbingly , Walkerdine ( 1987 ) recorded instances in nursery schools where male children were using sexual insults to challenge the female teacher : the teacher , however , dismissed it as ‘ normal ’ childish behaviour . |
| 9 | Firemen were using cutting equipment to remove the bodies from the wreckage . |
| 10 | They were using these records to increase their sales of chocolate . |
| 11 | ‘ Some students were using these kites to haul grain from the bottom of a Welsh mountain right to the top . |
| 12 | If someone said , Okay nitric acid and calcium hydroxide. as long as you were using this chart to work out which are single negative and double negative , what 's going to happen to that one ? |
| 13 | A group of children were using some workcards designed by the teacher to give them experience of working independently and helping one another over difficulties . |
| 14 | Meanwhile other European countries were pursuing more value added chemistry . |
| 15 | And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme . |
| 16 | Then it abruptly disappeared , and all he could see were entrancing coloured patterns chasing each other about the glowing darkness like tropical fish . |
| 17 | Also , by 1900 , and more acutely later , the demands made by central government upon local rates were causing local authorities to protest against further demands being made upon them , for example to build working-class housing . |
| 18 | Western states had lost valued military facilities in the Middle East and Indo-China and were seeking new concessions to offset these losses . |
| 19 | These Labour local authorities were developing conscious efforts to alter local economies so as to bring about long-term economic development , through job creation and job enrichment , for the benefit of local workers and the local community . |
| 20 | Both clubs were meeting last night to discuss the implications of the ban . |
| 21 | Both clubs were meeting last night to discuss the implications of the ban . |
| 22 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |
| 23 | They were so different from the lively Irish nuns , who , when they were passing some workmen unloading crates of beer into a pavement hatch in Nassau Street , Dublin , burst out laughing when the jovial brewery workers called out to them : ‘ Now , girls , steady up ! ’ |
| 24 | Last week the Nairobi Daily Nation reported that drug stores were selling some medicines containing anabolic steroids and chloroform as being ‘ suitable for children ’ . |
| 25 | The eight had claimed that their actions had been justified by their religious beliefs which held that US immigration laws were forcing many people to live under threat of death in El Salvador and other countries in the region . |
| 26 | Some of the authors were also aware of new approaches to the study of organic relationships that were being discussed in France and which were leading radical anatomists to challenge Cuvier 's authority . |
| 27 | There was no reply to the phone , but as we were going that way to spend the night at Sandspit , we called at the neighbours ’ and found that Pat was away for a few days . |
| 28 | My two realities were getting this thing done technically to technical excellence , which I was struggling with as I did n't know my stuff so well then , and also , managing to get a good performance out of David . |
| 29 | Forestry Commission and National Park chiefs said that many beekeepers were travelling 200 miles to leave hives on the moors around Scarborough because of the fine quality of honey and heather produces . |
| 30 | The field was swarming with sightseers from Glasgow , and the sweating guards from RAF Abbotsinch were having little luck preventing the looting of souvenir items from the scattered wreckage . |