Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our research showed that over half our customers were using a Windows operating system , ’ commented , managing director of HTFS , a joint venture between AEA , NEL and the Atomic Energy of Canada . |
| 2 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 3 | Already equipment and furniture were being delivered from central stores and technicians were installing a communications unit . |
| 4 | In fact , if it were n't for the program 's stunning speed , you could easily believe you were running a Windows application . |
| 5 | Sheene , who now lives in Australia , was opening a watersports resort in the Cotswolds . |
| 6 | If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency . |
| 7 | This guy I used to know , Babs Eadon , he told me of how he went to get a holiday job when he was doing a Masters degree . |
| 8 | The ex-LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 4422 , on loan from the North Staffs Railway at Cheddleton , was hauling a goods shuttle between this temporary railhead and a NORWEB cable-laying site under the M66 viaduct . |
| 9 | The reason I was not able to attend the function was that , as chairman of the Parking Facility Appreciation Society , I was hosting an awards ceremony and luncheon at another hotel in London . |