Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By 5pm , the bridal pair were speeding south to the Princess 's Gatcombe Park estate in the Cotswolds . |
| 4 | They were causing distress to the firm 's staff and amounted to a nuisance . |
| 5 | You were pushing film to the limits , working at 3200 asa . |
| 6 | Unless we were adding value to the constituent parts of the group it seemed to us that our plain duty would be to break the group into smaller constituent parts and hand them back to the shareholders . |
| 7 | suggested that they were paying lip-service to the wider social norms of tolerance , which conflicted with their inner psychological motives . |
| 8 | I first started to go when they were getting promotion to the second division the last few matches in the third division . |
| 9 | ‘ There was a sense the dealers were losing ground to the auction houses ’ relentless PR blitz ’ , says O. Kelley Anderson , a dealer and the fair 's director . |
| 10 | The sounds of the day were giving way to the sounds ofthe night . |
| 11 | In 1604 he complained that courtiers and officials in the House were giving information to the king about its proceedings , and he endeavoured to revive the unrepentant Apology of the Commons . |
| 12 | Indeed , in the course of our research it became increasingly clear that many of those commenting upon the " new " temporary working were making reference to the same small number of examples of this practice — examples , moreover , in which the number of temporary workers actually employed was often very low [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 13 | Department of Transport engineers last night were assessing damage to the two flyovers which feed traffic from the M1 on to the A406 North Circular Road and the A5 Edgware Road . |
| 14 | ‘ His , er , surcoat has both the lions of England and the lilies of France because we were laying claim to the disputed French throne at the time . |
| 15 | Nasty cop , nice cop : they were following procedure to the letter . |
| 16 | It seemed that by donning the white kandora , they were declaring allegiance to the country of their patron Sheikhs . |
| 17 | Even later in his career when he was drawing master to the Queen , and published a book of nonsense , a travel book , a volume of landscape drawings and numerous natural history illustrations , Lear made a profit of only £100 . |
| 18 | The Hatfield Polytechnic was moving towards computer instruction for all students because , said Norman Lindop in 1971 , ‘ the computer is a part of modern culture ’ , and in 1970 Computer Weekly was drawing attention to the CNAA 's contribution to computer availability in Scotland . |
| 19 | Poland was doing so in protest at the Soviet Union 's refusal withdraw all its 50,000 Polish-based troops by early 1992 , while Czechoslovakia was denying access to the Soviet convoys after the failure of talks on a cash payment for the proposed transit . |
| 20 | By an originating summons , dated 12 October 1992 , a health authority sought a declaration that a Caesarean section could be performed on a patient , Mrs. S. , who was refusing consent to the operation . |
| 21 | The state of the organization was causing concern to the party managers , for it would deteriorate further unless some definite decision about the future were taken . |
| 22 | He was investigating officer to the Society for Psychical Research , 1927–35 , and published widely on associated matters . |
| 23 | I was paying money to the paramilitaries . ’ |
| 24 | She was paying attention to the men 's talk , to the discussion of money , the fall in the price of wool , and the cunning of a certain local landowner 's brutal conditions . |
| 25 | The casualty was lying beam-on to the swell , and dead in the water with no engine power , so the helicopter 's attempt to lift the survivors had so far been unsuccessful . |
| 26 | Ten plutonium production reactors were built and operated and the irradiated fuel reprocessed ; various types of thermal reactor were investigated , as well as fast reactors and fusion reactors ; and from the mid-1950s AEA was selling electricity to the grid . |
| 27 | In fact , Christy 's hitting a wood for his second shot and it was going way to the left . |
| 28 | On Sept. 26 the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz denied suggestions reportedly made by Özal that the Iraqi government was providing support to the PKK . |
| 29 | After Fisher died Ramsey said that the time in their lives when they were closest in friendship was the time when he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chester . |
| 30 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |