Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 2 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 3 | That shop you were going at the cheapest one . |
| 4 | Mrs McAlorum underlined the damage done to the party through the connection with the Tories , particularly in areas like Lanarkshire where voters were fighting against the worst ravages of the recession . |
| 5 | Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome ’ took place at the George Inn . |
| 6 | Galbraith was writing before the latest riots , and is already considered something of a prophet for having done so . |
| 7 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 8 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 9 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 10 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend think that the Labour party was acting in the best interests of Britain and of our Baltic friends when , in 1969 , it did a deal with Brezhnev and handed over the Baltic gold ? |
| 12 | The foal was called Bonfire and was splendidly nosy and confident and trod delicately all round him pretending that he was lying on the sweetest grass in the field . |
| 13 | FRANCE 'S conservative op-position routed the ruling Socialist Party in yesterday 's first round of the general election and was heading for the biggest landslide victory this century . |
| 14 | The ginger-haired lad was heading towards the nearest bus stop when I managed to catch him up . |
| 15 | Dougal was chasing a forlorn hope ; and he was n't even sure that he was going by the best route . |
| 16 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 17 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 18 | All eyes in the room were watching the stranger — except for a pair belonging to Rincewind the wizard , who was sitting in the darkest comer nursing a mug of very small beer . |
| 19 | In no time I was rolling with the best of them and filling the intervals between wines by chewing a morsel of cheese . |
| 20 | And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons . |
| 21 | Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst . |
| 22 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 23 | I was hoping for the best , never believing this sort of thing could happen to my own little horse . |
| 24 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |
| 25 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |