Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the battle of Naseby in 1645 , Richard Baxter was concerned about the safety of some friends of his who were serving with the parliamentarian army . |
| 2 | Scottish Members of Parliament who were serving on the Committee for the Enterprise and New Towns ( Scotland ) Bill regarding the central provision of core functions in Scottish Enterprise ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Newcastle were handicapped by the absence of David Bargh and Mark Thorpe , who were competing in the World Pairs semi-finals in Germany . |
| 5 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 6 | By the time they reached the Mearns Road near Eaglesham and trudged to the wreckage of the Messerschmitt , it had acquired a small crowd of sightseers , who were bantering with the Home Guards trying to keep it safe from looting . |
| 7 | Were these people who were staying at the house ? |
| 8 | She liaised with the RSSPCC social workers on the mainland who were dealing with the children , and conducted meetings in Orkney about the case . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Our stronger feelings were reserved for the unscrupulous organisers of this sordid trade in human cargoes who were profiting from the Asians ' misery . |
| 11 | He was in charge of a group of MSC workers who were helping with the work . |
| 12 | They toured with another Leeds ' band , Age Of Chance , who were breaking at a faster pace than themselves . |
| 13 | But I was dealing with characters who were gliding along the surface of Tuscany , a beguiling countryside which they thought of as an extension of England . |
| 14 | Sergei Shakhrai , former presidential legal advisor , warned in Komsomolskaya pravda of Aug. 8 that the SC had fallen into the control of conservatives who were hoping for a return to the administrative-command system . |
| 15 | Police fired on a crowd of 4,000 demonstrators who were marching from the suburb of Kirtipur to the city centre , killing at least five . |
| 16 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 17 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 18 | He was the only child of an Asian couple who were living with the father 's parents . |
| 19 | When he visited the Russian sculptor Archipenko and his wife , who were living in a villa in Nice , Modi grumbled of the women who bossed him around . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 26 | ‘ What colour was the wolf ? ’ asked the children , who were listening to the story with great interest . |
| 27 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 28 | Critics claim that Freire 's ideal was a ‘ classless ’ environment for literacy campaigns , whereas in reality it inevitably tended to be urban , middle-class people who were passing on the skills . |
| 29 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 30 | In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France . |