Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various fusion machines that a had been built were producing neutrons-supposedly a sign that fusion was taking place but the neutrons had nothing to do with thermonuclear reactions . |
| 2 | The ban was imposed in 1987 , when it was found that up to 4,000 swans were wasting away every year because of lead poisoning caused by swallowing discarded weights . |
| 3 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 4 | One minute they were pushing forward a couple of tentative singles on their own label ( The Far Out Recording Company ) , the next they were being pressganged by Polydor and trailed across the press following the release of their debut album , The Eight Legged Groove Machine . |
| 5 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 6 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 7 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 8 | It was also vital to raise the nuclear threshold in Europe by increasing the level of conventional forces , and yet the British , for all too obvious financial reasons , were doing just the opposite ! |
| 9 | And as long as he was prepared to give the spending money , ie in the form of a voucher , er we were taking away the market share away from etcetera of this world . |
| 10 | It was worse than last year , with Hanna Brunner , but the high spirits of the company , knowing they were creating quite a stir , knowing they were good , all of them , made it bearable . |
| 11 | However , they had called the egm and were putting forward a resolution which would remove four of their opponents from office . |
| 12 | They were dining together the night before their flight to Bucharest . |
| 13 | In fact Filippo appeared just as they were clearing away the coffee things . |
| 14 | As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study . |
| 15 | Firstly , although some of the schemes were designed for staff right across further education , they were attracting only a handful of teachers of vocational subjects , while the remaining schemes did not take their needs into account at all . |
| 16 | After landing on Kiwi soil , the Kerryman smiled : ‘ I thought I was seeing double the airport we touched down at was called Kerikeri ! ’ |
| 17 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 18 | Lynda said that getting ready for the first visitors was proving quite a challenge . |
| 19 | That was particularly so when the 50p levy was generating quite a lot of finance at local level . |
| 20 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 21 | But that that we took the view that you know people were entitled to go to an H E institution , and and keep up to date with what was happening there every year . |
| 22 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 23 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 24 | Gary Hutchinson , 26 , was driving home a minibus of Newcastle United fans following Saturday 's away game at Port Vale when it was in collision with a car on the A66 near Bowes , Co Durham . |
| 25 | ‘ Hey , beautiful ! ’ the proctologist , back aboard Wavebreaker at sunset , called down the companionway steps to where Ellen was tearing apart a lettuce for the evening meal . |
| 26 | One of the black , tendrilled parts of its body was picking apart an orange and ingesting it , segment by segment . |
| 27 | Erm I was very , very interested in an interview I heard last weekend I think it was with Pete , when he made the comment that he was n't interested in back to basics because that was looking backwards a lot of people in the past lived pretty miserable lives . |
| 28 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 29 | He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left . |
| 30 | She was dressed in black , and was wearing rather a lot of make-up . |