Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 2 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 3 | Yanto laughed as he realised his shoulders were covered with fish scales which were flashing in the dim light of the oil lamp . |
| 4 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 5 | The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky . |
| 6 | To some extent the spending was diversionary because it deflected attention from the cuts that were occurring in the orthodox funding mechanisms for current and capital expenditure . |
| 7 | Just as England 's hopes were dying in the third and final Test against India in Bombay , Hick revived his side with a magnificent innings of 99 not out . |
| 8 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |
| 9 | The room was largely uninhabited : a group of women in jeans were laughing in the opposite corner , and two girls were in earnest conversation by the window , pink spiky heads leaning together . |
| 10 | Their guests were assembling in the open-air piazza below . |
| 11 | Because of the shortages of girls for nursing , many ads were appearing in the daily papers . |
| 12 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 13 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 14 | Dry off all the bits you were soaking in the soapy water . |
| 15 | The tree-tops were bowing in the rising wind , and it sounded as though they , too , were sighing . |
| 16 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 17 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 18 | The family were living in the small town of Gympie . |
| 19 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 20 | Of the carers in the 1985 GHS who were living in the same household as the person receiving care , 51 per cent of women reported spending at least fifty hours a week giving help compared with only 39 per cent of men . |
| 21 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 22 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 23 | The deputy Labour leader , Margaret Beckett , told Tony Newton , the leader of the Commons , who was standing in for Mr Major at Question Time : ‘ How would you feel if you were serving in the British Army under fire in Bosnia and were handed a P45 ? ’ |
| 24 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 25 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 26 | As the sun set , pools of darkness were growing in the innumerable dips and hollows . |
| 27 | At the hotel in Longford they broke the journey to have tea and sandwiches , and just as the winter light began to fail they were turning in the open gate under the poisonous yew tree . |
| 28 | The next question to be answered is exactly what details subjects were describing in the different conditions and whether certain specific types of information are related to risk , memory , or both . |
| 29 | They were rejoicing in the splendid Irish Guinness they drank and bemoaned the sad state of beer back in Britain . |
| 30 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |