Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year ago , the Eagles were drawing three-figure crowds to Owlerton greyhound stadium . |
| 2 | American curators were recommending German artists to American collectors in the mid-1980s and Grant now sees US buyers reinforcing natural German demand for Richter , Polke , Immendorf , Baselitz and Kiefer . |
| 3 | ‘ We were n't in helicopters ourselves — that was just Steve 's band and Eric 's band , because they were going straight back to Chicago . |
| 4 | 15 years ago Blackburn were getting similar gates to Watford and Oxford . |
| 5 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 6 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 7 | And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 9 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |
| 10 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 11 | And when he and Hugh Paddick joined together for their Julian and Sandy routine — bravely supposedly using the names , and names only , of Julian Slade and Sandy Wilson ( writers of The Boy Friend and Salad Days ) — Williams and Paddick were giving new meaning to that word ‘ gay ’ , especially when they talked about the figure-hugging black number they had bought in Carnaby Street . |
| 12 | A number of arts professional development teachers reported that their involvement in schools was often initiated by primary headteachers feeling that staff were giving inadequate time to an area of the curriculum vital to the personal development of the pupils . |
| 13 | But Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union USDAW , said non-payment campaigners were giving false hope to the vulnerable . |
| 14 | These dynamic people , including Mary Kelly , Frances Mackenzie , L. du Garde Peach , Leo Baker , Robert Newton and Alfred Willett-Whittacker were not merely enthusiastic practitioners , they were far-sighted educators who were giving high status to amateur theatre . |
| 15 | As units of 6 Armoured Division advanced into eastern Carinthia they encountered Bulgarian units of Tolbukhin 's army group , who were delegating local administration to the Yugoslavs . |
| 16 | Their genetic code cells were showing similar deformities to those of Chernobyl residents . |
| 17 | At this time the King 's French gardeners were making extensive improvements to the Palace gardens and frequent inspection was necessary . |
| 18 | Senior ministers knew all along that British firms were supplying arms-making machinery to Saddam Hussein just before the Gulf War , a court heard . |
| 19 | In the Gnostic situation to which I John was addressed , ‘ knowledge ’ was the ‘ in ’ word , and false teachers were laying exclusive claims to it . |
| 20 | Children , boys and girls , were loading small carts to be dragged along by old horses . |
| 21 | An influential report by Professor Jurg Niehans in February 1981 argued that monetary policy was in fact excessively tight because the high interest rates were attracting foreign money to London and maintaining a high pound . |
| 22 | In the 1680s , when Colbert de Croissy was preaching honourable behaviour to his son , the theft or attempted theft of despatches was still a commonplace of diplomacy . |
| 23 | Next , but to a much lower degree , was using personal abilities to the full " . |
| 24 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 25 | Despite these reverses , however , a revival of seventh-century northern imperial ambition had evidently occurred among the Northumbrians at the court of Eadberht , and though the dominance of Óengus , son of Forgus , in Pictland probably impeded its fulfilment , the indications are that Eadberht was bringing new prosperity to his kingdom . |
| 26 | The palaeontologist was an Ezekiel calling to life the dry bones ; but in this case the old sign ‘ here be dragons ’ was apt , and the prophet was bringing diabolical creatures to life — perhaps a Frankenstein rather than an Ezekiel . |
| 27 | His commercial reputation was now in shade , but Jackson was hatching speculative schemes to the last . |
| 28 | During his honeymoon , Yeats was addressing heart-broken verses to his lost love — who by this time was an amalgam of Maud and her daughter . |
| 29 | To this day it is the address to which Diana has her private mail directed and has done ever since she suspected Fergie was visiting the Buckingham Palace post room in order to tell Prince Charles who was writing confidential letters to his wife . |
| 30 | Detectives believe the IRA was transporting deadly cargoes to various locations in the city — disguised as goods . |