Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 2 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 3 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 4 | The foregoing is fully applicable to the motivation of all those individuals who influenced the events which were creating the religious climate and who , unbeknown to themselves were contributing to the Created God . |
| 5 | The federal government decided that exports of vegetables were contributing to the soaring inflation rate , and banned them . |
| 6 | Dietary concentrations of other minerals and of vitamins were according to the AIN-76 recommendations . |
| 7 | Ambulance crews were tending to the injured . |
| 8 | Mr Rankin said villagers were writing to the environmental health authority to try and sort the matter out , ‘ At evenings and weekends , the continuous drumming of the bikes sounds like a chainsaw . ’ |
| 9 | They were looking to the old Roman virtues for the explanation of Roman success , but the Romans had acquired power by divesting themselves of their old Roman habits . |
| 10 | ‘ When Shabba and his posse were listening to the final tune they were nodding sagely . |
| 11 | American politicians were turning to the academic community to provide the intellectual justification for confronting Soviet power . |
| 12 | At the front , orders and conflicting counter-orders were adding to the general chaos , as was the badly damaged , and anyway inadequate , telephone system . |
| 13 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 14 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |
| 15 | And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function . |
| 16 | They said they were going to the local pub for a meal if I 'd like to join them . |
| 17 | Last night both men were clinging to the vain hope of salvaging their jobs and refused to comment before today 's hearing . |
| 18 | The Tree Spirits were clinging to the black iron pipes that ran along the sides of the floor , using them as levers and pulleys to help them across the floor . |
| 19 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 20 | Six men were saying to the other six : Whatever else divides us , whatever else is between us , only one thing matters . |
| 21 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 22 | All of this information we were giving to the federal people , A T F , who are responsible for investigating and control these kind of activities . |
| 23 | As usual , these critics of Keynesian theory were referring to the IS-LM model in which tangency solutions and the like make no appearance whatsoever . |
| 24 | The endearments and other noises which followed made it quite clear that Yorick and Cyril were exploring to the full the dramatic possibilities of a reconciliation scene . |
| 25 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 26 | As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this , so he avoided prosecution . |
| 27 | To her dismay , her body was reacting to the sensual word pictures Vitor had created and she could feel herself becoming aroused . |
| 28 | He was reacting to the Tory group 's comments that the ‘ prophets of doom and gloom ’ were incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years . |
| 29 | She was reacting to the soft note in his voice , letting it wash over her and slow down the beat of her heart . |
| 30 | He blamed the delays on ‘ the realities of getting practical things off the ground ’ , but insisted that the Government was sticking to the original target figure and they were making ‘ excellent progress ’ . |