Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Li Yuan was already moving past him . |
| 2 | The blood spot on the nose of the last fish leads me to wonder whether the fish were initially suffering from some infectious agent , such as a bacterial pathogen . |
| 3 | Several other people were also staying in the house , and they all had to listen to Leonard talking about the mysteries of the unseen world . |
| 4 | At the same time as doubts were beginning to be felt about Britain 's economic vulnerability , the working people were increasingly organizing in trade unions to try to secure , or guarantee , their share of the progress . |
| 5 | When people were already living in towns and storing grain from year to year , the crops hit upon a new strategy for propagating their own kind . |
| 6 | We had rehearsals in the morning , and by lunch-time people were already coming across the river to get their places for the play . |
| 7 | She had a strongly defined concept of what was Real and what was not , did William 's nan , and some people were just playing at life . |
| 8 | And people were just saying to me what 's the matter ? |
| 9 | Karen , from Hall Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough , visited Romania in 1987 and saw how village people were barely surviving on their failing subsistence agriculture . |
| 10 | ‘ People were literally running for their lives but I was rooted to the spot . ’ |
| 11 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 12 | People were still standing outside talking intently . |
| 13 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |
| 14 | The Sri Lankan government on April 1 issued a denial of claims that its navy had shot at two Indian fishing trawlers in the prawn-catching area off the north of the island on March 11 and 16 ; seven people were still missing after the latter incident . |
| 15 | As of late February Monrovia was said to be calm , with emergency food and other supplies flowing in , and some shops reopening , although relief agencies emphasised that people were still dying from starvation . |
| 16 | According to a WHO report published on Oct. 16 , almost 3,000,000 people were still dying from tuberculosis every year . |
| 17 | ‘ Those people were definitely laughing at me . ’ |
| 18 | These are the things that they 're having to pay for it with , and the reason being , is the Social Services in this county were a diabolically low level , and people were definitely suffering from it . |
| 19 | According to the Professor , people were virtually living on mountains of asbestos and despite this ‘ gross exposure ’ there was no evidence of people who had contracted mesothelioma , a form of cancer related to asbestos ’ , the Cork Examiner reported . |
| 20 | It was also based on the household unit , irrespective of how many people were actually living in the household . |
| 21 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 22 | And so if people had less money in their pockets and they were losing their jobs , what factors can explain why more and more people were actually going on holiday abroad ? |
| 23 | Or maybe people were always popping in here for 10 grams of thallium . |
| 24 | People were always coming into the shop looking for things to copy . |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't funny at the time , of course , because young people were really getting into trouble for being too westernised ’ , she told me . |
| 26 | And it was just the the the people were often walking along this track , anyway there was a man , there was erm , was a , there was a man and a woman walked over to and walked back again at night , well in the the even , evening anyway . |
| 27 | He managed lan Dury before Dury was famous , and City Lights provided the suit that David Bowie wore on the cover of ‘ Pin Ups ’ and which people were forever coming into Let It Rock trying to get copied , much to Malcolm 's chagrin . |
| 28 | Everyone in the developed countries around 1970 or so knew that there was both a baby bust and an education explosion going on ; half or more of the young people were now staying in school beyond high school . |
| 29 | A spokesman told The Northern Echo yesterday some local education authority staff were also working for the Dyslexia Institute and there was no indication the needs of dyslexic youngsters were not being met . |
| 30 | Erm how many staff were there working in the house in Llaneilian ? |