Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Myeloski did n't tell Duncan was that things were slowly beginning to take shape in his mind . |
| 2 | They organised events for charity , gave concerts , formed clubs , and were generally beginning to become part of the administration . |
| 3 | The Water Services Association , the trade body representing the water companies , said the suppliers were not trying to make access to information difficult for consumers . |
| 4 | ‘ We conducted an independent market research , because we wanted to establish we were not going to reach saturation point . |
| 5 | But would n't it have been a good idea to ask a relative or neighbour to go with her or to look after the children who were not going to receive attention ? |
| 6 | However , it must be added that these subjects were consuming quite a large quantity of food and were not attempting to shed weight . |
| 7 | ‘ A number of SSDs have n't done much work with the voluntary sector , and some were not planning to do work with ethnic groups , families , or gay men . |
| 8 | Some lenders were already refusing to give money for areas which they thought might eventually be included in the list . |
| 9 | Russia 's allies within Iran were already preparing to seize power , and delegations from Japan , Saudi Arabia , Turkey , Pakistan — and Israel — had all visited America to implore Reagan to do something . |
| 10 | Crewe are top of div 3 by 8 points , and had not lost for about 15 games , so were always going to have confidence , good organisation and scoring ability . |
| 11 | Richard admitted that he had listened to the advice of people who were deliberately trying to sow dissension between them . |
| 12 | We felt very sorry for both young people , for they were genuinely trying to find work and were getting very dispirited . |
| 13 | As the Soviet authorities were still trying to restore order in the Transcaucasian republic of Azerbaijan following the violence there in January [ see below ; pp. 37168-70 ] , nationalist rioting erupted on Feb. 11 in Dushanbe , the capital of the Central Asian republic of Tadjikistan , which had hitherto been largely untouched by the nationalist or inter-ethnic unrest afflicting much of the southern Soviet Union . |
| 14 | However they got a free kick from one of their lot diving when noone was anywhere near , and Leeds were still beginning to take position when Newell I think takes the kick and Shearer picks it up and scores . |
| 15 | The same party of people I had encountered earlier were still sitting having lunch on the edge of some rocks above me . |
| 16 | Despite the ceasefire Croatian forces were still fighting to capture JNA garrisons in Croatia ( the important garrison of Bjelovar near Zagreb fell to Croatian forces on Oct. 1 after a 12-hour battle ) ; military hardware was sent from Serbia in response . |
| 17 | Most of the projects were also trying to have knock on effects , not just for their client group but for services which would benefit other people . |
| 18 | Right , okay , the other thing I was going to ask about we , we had a big promotion of Amnesty by The Body Shop , last year , er and we noticed that Our Price were also going to do promotion of Amnesty and we asked , wonder if we look into local shops and see what they could find out and what was going on , did you find anything ? |
| 19 | The group 's five new businesses — DK Multimedia , DK Education , DK Cartography , DK Vision and DK Family Library — had not yet made a contribution to pretax profit but were now beginning to generate momentum . |
| 20 | The families of the nine British soldiers killed by an American missile in the Gulf War wanted to know why the pilots responsible were n't going to give evidence . |
| 21 | I MEAN , IF YOU WERE N'T GOING TO ENJOY IT . |
| 22 | Just to remind everybody that we 've decided that this year we were n't going to put pressure on people . |
| 23 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 24 | She had known they were n't going to make love the moment the sound of that door being either opened or closed had penetrated , and flooding in had come the memory that she was Mr and Mrs Hepwood 's guest . |
| 25 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 26 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |