Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | AUTHOR compiling a detailed history on the 300/400 Australian Short Service Commission airmen ( mostly pilots ) , who were serving in the RAF at the outbreak of World War Two . |
| 2 | Newcastle were handicapped by the absence of David Bargh and Mark Thorpe , who were competing in the World Pairs semi-finals in Germany . |
| 3 | No doubt there were also older men who were farming in the township , but most farms were smallholdings and their occupants were usually described by their craft names . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And erm also but I I was glad to experience the kind of things that people who were living in the flats without choice , had to experience . |
| 7 | And standing on the pinnacle of course of this process of evolution erm er who were living in the most advanced societies and so on . |
| 8 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 9 | She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived . |
| 10 | Marie turned , hearing noises behind her , then broke into a smile , bowing to the two elderly gentlemen who were passing in the corridor . |
| 11 | The servants woke , and two gentlemen , who were passing in the road below , stopped and looked up at the house . |
| 12 | Those who were safely beached on the shore of prosperity had the option of giving the credit to Providence , or arrogating it to themselves ; as they regarded those less fortunate ones who were struggling in the water , they could see them as victims of their own improvidence or of God 's ineluctable decree . |
| 13 | Down in the stinking , toxic undercity that night , the Lordly Phantasms stalked a tech gang who were raiding in the direction of the central heat sink . |
| 14 | Their influence is apparent in the work of the anthropologists who were working in the period between the two world wars . |
| 15 | Plainly , there is therefore an absolute necessity of early identification of all witnesses upon whom one might rely , even if at that stage statements are not taken from them , thus for example , it would be good practice to identify all those persons who witnessed the accident , who were working in the vicinity of the pursuer at the time of the accident , together with those who have a supervisory function , such as Foreman , Supervisors and Shift Managers . |
| 16 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 17 | Readers who were detecting in the late 1970s and 1980s will remember the range of excellent specialist diggers designed and manufactured by Buffallo Tools of Rayleigh in Essex . |
| 18 | The two girls who were travelling in the car were both taken to hospital . |
| 19 | Some paleontologists suggested that the reptiles had died out through racial senility in order to leave room for their successors , the mammals , who were waiting in the wings ready to seize control of the world . |
| 20 | Just then , Mick and Paddy , who were sitting in the cab of the Land Rover , saw amber headlights flickering behind the northern horizon . |
| 21 | He did not notice the men , who were standing in the darkness . |
| 22 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 23 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 24 | Naturally , some of these investors , particularly those who were speculating in the more unpredictable ventures , lost money , but by and large the European and American ‘ coupon clippers ’ as they were sometimes called , did very well out of their overseas investments . |
| 25 | Primarily peasant guerilla fighters , people who were fighting in the Red Army , and it draws its mass support , the Party members draw their mass support , er from the peasants in the areas where they establish their authority . |
| 26 | The Serbs , with whom the right hon. Gentleman was fighting , who were fighting in the mountains , held up seven German divisions . |
| 27 | ‘ But there was another person who was staying in the same house — the Reverend Arthur Lyle . |
| 28 | Det Chief Insp John Stoddart described the brick-throwing as a callous , premeditated attack on a police officer who was acting in the public 's interest . |
| 29 | Mr Neil Lancaster , who was drinking in the Swan Wine Bar in Leadenhall Market , half a mile from the scene of the explosion , said glass lampshades were thrown from the ceiling on to the floor . |
| 30 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates Mrs Charlton had refused to serve Raper who was drinking in the pub after being barred . |