Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 32 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 33 | The score was unchanged and the Yankees were batting in the ninth , and last , inning . |
| 34 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 35 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 36 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 37 | The organisers also gave a special award to veteran runner Albert Dolman , who was competing in the tenth consecutive run . |
| 38 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 39 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 40 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
| 41 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 42 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 43 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 44 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 45 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 46 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 47 | Pte Farr , whose family came from London , was serving in the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment . |
| 48 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 49 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 50 | Archie 's Nephew , a stable-companion of Rushing Wild , was scoring for the first time this season , having acted as a schoolmaster for novice riders in several earlier runs . |
| 51 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 52 | Along with Graham Nearn of Caterham and Chris Smith of Westfield , Marsh — Marcos founder and mainstay of the UK 's cottage industry of component car makers — was exhibiting at the last motor show , where anyone could legitimately call him a ‘ kit car ’ maker . |
| 53 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |
| 54 | as I was going with the fourth year |
| 55 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 56 | The golf-bag on its wheeled trolley was at an angle of 45 and the open end was pointing towards the 18th green . |
| 57 | The most exciting thing about the day was getting off the 18th green . |
| 58 | So everything was riding on the last day … |
| 59 | She was riding in the first day of the Tythrop Horse Trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire when the accident happened . |
| 60 | By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression . |