Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 2 | In the real world outside Neighbours studio there were those who were plotting to turn the simmering Scott and Charlene affair into a true-life romance . |
| 3 | In October , talks between Llangernyw-based Water tight Ltd , who were hoping to develop the plant , and Hafodunos Estate , broke down . |
| 4 | On the contrary , it flourished within a discipline that had emerged to help the farmers who were struggling to exploit the prairies in a way that destroyed the traditional climax . |
| 5 | He once finished third , but more often he has sacrificed his own chances by slowing down to help British runners who were struggling to complete the course . |
| 6 | The firms with the best teams — analysts , jobbers , corporate lawyers , financial PR men , whatever — those were the firms who were going to set the going rate and get it . |
| 7 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 8 | In our youth , the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies , we had the same thing , only we were the generation who were going to change the world . |
| 9 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |
| 10 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 11 | The disagreement follows China 's recent assertion that Britain was responsible for the crisis of confidence in Hong Kong and that Whitehall had ‘ connived ’ with locals who were attempting to overthrow the Chinese government . |
| 12 | The legacy of the war was a powerful one , both for politicians and for the group of academics who were attempting to study the phenomena of international relations . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , intense lobbying was reported of deputies from Estonia , Georgia and other strongly nationalist-minded republics who were threatening to boycott the vote on the grounds that strengthening centralized executive authority ran counter to recent official proposals for restructuring the Soviet Union into a looser confederation of sovereign republics . |