Example sentences of "that [was/were] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found one of those plastic and formica Little Chefs that were replacing the old greasy spoon eateries and went straight into the Gents . |
| 2 | There she bargained with the Queen , and in return for not harrying the English ships that were pursuing the Spanish Armada , O'Malley was allowed a free hand in Connaught . |
| 3 | Nor could capitalist or socialist states deal by themselves with the threat of a nuclear catastrophe , or the difficulties that were facing the developing countries . |
| 4 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 5 | They rightly sensed that there was a mass audience waiting to be entertained and so they were given every incentive to hang on to the goose that was laying the golden eggs . |
| 6 | And er one of the men that was helping the old man to do something , to repair the the these tools you know , and he he 'd gone to the stores to get something and leaning over the counter to get something er er to sort of talk as one goes on a on a counter lean he was leaning a on the counter , and he erm the the the storeman he was a tough little beggar , and he said , I 've got a I 've got a I 've got a toothache . |
| 7 | Certainly it was the case that the new religious enthusiasm that was replacing the dying Puritanism assured the individual of his intrinsic worth , and assured him also that he was loved and cherished by God . |
| 8 | The American boy , he saw , was puffing out his cheeks and making loud trumpeting noises in an attempt to emulate these feats , and it was this comic performance that was causing the Annamese boys to shake with laughter . |
| 9 | He was n't often out of his bed now , and David Beaton had said privately to Bridhe that it was only determination to see the baby born that was keeping the old man alive . |
| 10 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 11 | A moving track brought to the platform , from the machine that was making the appalling noise , a series of boxes containing moulds shaped out of black sand ( though Wilcox called it green ) . |
| 12 | warm water , and then put Savlon cream on it , vet said you could n't have done any better , cos he gave him an antidote , before I new what it was I would have given him funny itching rash that was making the poor soul |
| 13 | Again there were signs of change — of that same revolution in style that was sweeping the Above . |