Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were helping to break down the barriers to access for those companies , such as small scale , under capitalisation , lack of knowledge of quality assurance and shyness in making approaches to the big operators . |
| 2 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 3 | The poverty-stricken Spanish people were attempting to shake off the shackles and feudalism imposed mainly by the Catholic church . |
| 4 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 5 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 6 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 7 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 8 | So we were going to make up a sport to see what he said , and in Spain they play a game called callots . |
| 9 | I thought we were going to walk down the line of men , touch them on the shoulder maybe , like some cop programme on TV , but that was n't it at all . |
| 10 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 11 | In Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , 88 per cent of the 243 of ‘ The Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed did take some steps to aid new staff who were moving to take up an appointment . |
| 12 | They were beginning to lay down a sound that would later become synonymous with The Wedding Present , but it missed the energy of what would come later . |
| 13 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 14 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 15 | It was a minute to midnight when Joan and John reached her parents ' house as the bells were beginning to ring out the old year . |
| 16 | Our intention was to fly low level VFR into French airspace , climb onto airways VFR , then , as we were expecting to catch up a cold front around Limoges , refile IFR and continue to our destination expecting an IFR approach with a reported cloud base of 600 to 800 ft . |
| 17 | Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure . |
| 18 | What was more , they were threatening to burn down the capital if Colonel Rebu was not set free — and Port-au-Prince is mostly built of wood . |
| 19 | The Supreme Soviet also resolved that the President , Boris Yeltsin , should remove from office ministers who were failing to carry out the decisions of the republic 's legislative bodies . |
| 20 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 21 | Waving his men into a pincer formation , Mortimer surprised the small group of machete-wielding rebels who were trying to wear down the staff of the building . |
| 22 | Some sailors were trying to put up a small sail , but the wind blew it out of their hands , away across the sea into the night . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe they were trying to put up a smoke-screen . |
| 24 | So there we were trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement . |
| 25 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 26 | The Germans , he reckoned , were trying to wipe out the docks , yet somehow the city centre seemed to be getting the worst of it — and all the shops and offices and streets of little houses . |
| 27 | Tessa could hear him breathing on the threshold outside for several minutes more , as if he were trying to summon up the courage to return and say something . |
| 28 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 29 | He jetted out in his role as President of the Council of European Farm Ministers to join EC Agriculture Commission Ray MacSharry and US Agricultural Secretary Edward Madigan who were trying to button up a deal before the transition of the US Presidency . |
| 30 | Erm Richard you were trying to break up a big lump of snow yesterday were n't you ? |