Example sentences of "was [v-ing] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst Hooker defended the Church 's beliefs and practices in the name of reason , Andrewes went further and boldly asserted that the Anglican Church was part of a Catholic and Universal Church and was maintaining its true traditions which had been corrupted by Rome . |
| 2 | Sharif alleged that the government was using its federal powers to try to unseat him by denying transport and access to credit to the industrial concern , Ittefaq , of which he was a partner , thereby adding further pressure in the federal investigations of Sharif and his supporters . |
| 3 | His tongue stroked briefly across the tender inner swell of her lower lip , inducing a tingling sensitivity , and then she was accepting its sinuous thrust against hers and along with it a wild pleasure , desire following only a heartbeat behind . |
| 4 | And a hummingbird was building its woolly nest with some material from a visitors hat . |
| 5 | Her beautiful soft face , illuminated by the intermittent glow of the fog light , was reflecting its own light of love . |
| 6 | IT WAS WHILE ‘ I 'M TOO SEXY ’ was enjoying its long stay at number two beneath Bryan Adams that Richard Fm told the Sun that he was bisexual . |
| 7 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 8 | He told me that Lambeth Palace was pursuing its own contacts in an attempt to locate Terry Waite . |
| 9 | It was the end of the afternoon , an east wind was chivvying its self-important way across the North Sea , the sun was losing its heat , and most people had gone home . |
| 10 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 11 | Yesterday the Royal Mail was keeping its own counsel about this hot literary topic . |
| 12 | Each branch was developing its own way of coping with the environment , and progress in one direction could not be evaluated by comparison with any other . |
| 13 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 14 | In short , claims that the United States was abusing its financial position were a way of claiming that US competition was ‘ unfair ’ rather than just effective . |
| 15 | It was imagining its own absence from the scene , and disbelieving innocence . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the right to study now embodied in the constitution was causing its own problems , particularly for the natural sciences . |
| 17 | Guests at a Buckingham Palace banquet held last night in honour of the Sultan 's four-day state visit heard the Queen hail Brunei as ‘ an example to the world ’ in the way it was preserving its natural habitat . |
| 18 | I was glad to see that the weather was presenting its sunnier face today , although a breeze was scurrying through the tops of the trees . |
| 19 | A similar position was adopted by Bill Vander Zalm , the Premier of British Columbia , who had suggested on June 22 that his province was reconsidering its initial support for the Accord . |
| 20 | On Dec. 3 the South African government announced that it was withdrawing its diplomatic representatives from Angola . |
| 21 | Berkeley Eastoak Investment , the jointly-owned commercial property arm set up 18 months ago , announced yesterday it was doubling its original £100m investment in the market . |
| 22 | Even as he shouted for attention , Jesus had picked a target star and was tracking its apparent movement around the Lift . |
| 23 | The economy was undergoing its worst recession since 1945 and had been hit in particular by a fall of over 50 per cent in trade with the Soviet Union in the first three months of 1991 , and by a low dollar and over-valued Finnish markka , which seriously affected the forest industry . |
| 24 | With the emerging pattern of village colleges , his LEA was providing its own programmes of liberal adult education and at the April 1939 meeting of the RAC he was successful in adding a clause to the constitution of the Committee to enable other ‘ approved associations ’ to provide courses of the Chapter III variety in addition to the WEA . |
| 25 | So I had crudely skinned the dead creature , and was holding its armoured hide above me , before the shower began in earnest . |
| 26 | As the majority of these nations became independent between 1960 and 1962 , a fair bench mark to take for Africa as a whole would seem to be the year 1961 , a time when the continent was beginning its modern period of self-rule . |
| 27 | Slowly , the NME was alienating its natural constituents , the reasonably liberal and informed rock fan . |
| 28 | Supermarket chain Gateway Foodmarkets announced it was switching its 1,100 cars to diesel six months ago and said it expected to save around £400,000 a year on fuel alone . |
| 29 | The service was facing its biggest crisis since the ambulances came to a stop in the Winter of Discontent ten years ago . |
| 30 | BRITAIN was facing its worst flooding crisis for 22 years as torrential rain and gale-force winds swept the country last night . |