Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 3 | Aye well you see it we used to it does n't matter how she jumped and rolled , we were eating just the same . |
| 4 | Indeed , I recall one occasion when I heard him and Tony Benn separately on the radio and they were expressing essentially the same opinions about the same issues . |
| 5 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 6 | What he did not tell me — and I only learnt during the course of the journey — was that we were adding about a thousand miles to our route . |
| 7 | Second , Jones ' experiment was at the stage where its results were moving forward the fastest . |
| 8 | They were getting there the cheap way and combining adventure with the bonus of having their cars with them at the end . |
| 9 | Yeah if you follow the sort of logic you were saying though the main business comes from wedding fairs , just three in the Autumn and three in the Winter . |
| 10 | The largest sine ] " Occupational group among the fathers is indeed compositors ( 10 ) and these men 's daughters were doing exactly the same as their sons : following their father into a trade . |
| 11 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 12 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 13 | How many of the young men and women of her own world were doing exactly the same as Rose ? |
| 14 | And you were doing exactly the same thing were n't you ? |
| 15 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 16 | However , it must be added that these subjects were consuming quite a large quantity of food and were not attempting to shed weight . |
| 17 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 18 | Meanwhile other studios were learning much the same lessons , albeit for somewhat different reasons . |
| 19 | Well , me and Andrew Love were talking backstage the other day , listening to our drummer and keyboard player having a jam out front , and I was humming this made-up saxophone solo , and he was going , ‘ Oh , God — if you were a sax player , watch out ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We were putting forward an overall package because of the financial problems facing so many small clubs not a quick-fix job . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We were playing much the same clubs as before in a very similar competition . |
| 22 | You were sitting right the other side of the stairs |
| 23 | Erm but I felt because we were sitting there the appropriate sociability went on longer . |
| 24 | We can explain this pattern if we remember that in the normal prose condition subjects were receiving both a syntactic and semantic context . |
| 25 | This was despite the fact that patients maintained on mesalazine were receiving twice the equivalent dose of 5-ASA as those maintained on sulphasalazine . |
| 26 | To their growing alarm , the £10.5 billion revenues that Koch Industries were earning from oil trading , refining , piping and ranching were yielding only a one per cent return to shareholders . |
| 27 | Fred was jumpy while they were working together the next morning , so Arthur opened a bottle of Bollinger in their businesslike new office and then took him out to lunch . |
| 28 | Fires were burning over a third of the city . |
| 29 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 30 | Around about the period when Monsieur Henri Mignet and his incredible Pou du Ciel , or ‘ Flying Flea ’ , was captivating the Great British Public 's imagination with his aeronautical exploits in a home-made aeroplane , several American inventors were offering much the same aerial excitement to their own countrymen , but with rather more ‘ conventional ’ designs . |