Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST when they thought the good times were coming to an end , Japanese building firms are being given a batch of orders for huge infrastructure projects . |
| 2 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , some saw these victories as signs that the days of the mounted knight as the dominant military arm were coming to an end . |
| 4 | In most other respects , however , joint efforts , such as they were , to keep the peace , let alone to share the responsibilities of government , were coming to an end . |
| 5 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 6 | It 's all going wrong for Forest just when Frank Clark thought his problems were coming to an end . |
| 7 | Well because I thought that the hits were coming to an end and I did n't want to become an all-round entertainer , I was n't suited to it , I w I did n't have any feeling for all-round entertaining . |
| 8 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 9 | We were coming to the end of the day , and the light was starting to fade . |
| 10 | They were coming to the end of the motorway — which went nowhere , after the fashion of the country , having been built to please a politician it was said — and both of them knew a bar . |
| 11 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |
| 12 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 13 | What was new was the diversity which people were finding by the end of the century : many of the greatest preachers remained ‘ orthodox ’ including Spurgeon and his many protégés or Wesleyans like Dinsdale T. Young and F. Luke Wiseman . |
| 14 | Geoffrey and Anthony were sitting at the end of Penzance Gardens , where it met Princedale Road . |
| 15 | They were grieving for the end of one of life 's great love matches . |
| 16 | It was the year of the Queen 's Silver Jubilee and the Prince , just twenty-nine , was drawing to the end of his first year as a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 17 | Demobilization was drawing to an end , and many of the suffering migrants like the Famine refugees and the wandering hordes of orphans and youths could not often afford to take a train . |
| 18 | Taken in conjunction with his new powers , however , it aroused fears among pro-reform forces and among foreign observers that the recent period of liberalism and growing political freedom , ushered in under Gorbachev since 1985 , was drawing to an end . |
| 19 | He came out after two weeks and — despite a slight chill on the liver — he was recovering by the end of February . |
| 20 | But that would 've tied in again with , with the beginning because what is affordable erm would he get the benefits that he was wanting at the end of it . |
| 21 | These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season . |
| 22 | I was listening to the end bit , I was saying what were we about at the end . |
| 23 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 24 | When the two girls left the smithy , Gay was carrying the wooden board — a rough affair that was all that could be obtained — and Breeze was leading on the end of a knotted string a small and ill-favoured specimen of doghood . |
| 25 | ‘ I was getting to the end of the three years when I was approached by Amalgamated Metal . |
| 26 | Dr Kohl was speaking at the end of a two-day visit to Dresden — his first official trip to East Germany — which left him clearly pleased with his reception and warm response to his striving for German unity . |
| 27 | He was speaking at the end of an interesting day when 160 people — the Bishop , 21 priests and parishioners from all parts of the diocese — met at St Benedict 's School , Upton Wirral . |
| 28 | She was speaking at the end of the inquiry into the death of Jean Cook , of Bridgecastle Road , Armadale , who fell out of bed in hospital twice within seven hours in March last year . |
| 29 | For three quarters of the race she was within the time for for another British mark , but as she explained afterwards : ‘ Two hard 50-metres just before meant I was lacking at the end . ’ |
| 30 | She was coming to the end of months on the barren atoll of Pity Me when she heard the moth rattle against her window , between tacked-up scarlet and black batik fabric and the glass . |