Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the US were keenly awaiting the outcome : Mr Baker had made several statements expressing Washington 's desire for Israel to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on elections . |
| 2 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |
| 3 | A calm relaxing feeling flows throughout the body as though lead weights were slowly pulling the body down into the chair , heavier and heavier , more and more calm at every moment . |
| 4 | Perhaps these inhabitants of the underworld were slowly losing the struggle . |
| 5 | Megaw LJ agreed with Denning MR but Browne LJ dissented : he said that the majority were effectively remaking the contract which was something which the court was not entitled to do . |
| 6 | Last I saw , a couple of hand-in-hand schoolkids had fished them out and were avidly reading the instruction leaflet . |
| 7 | You have to remember a nation where new immigrants were constantly adjusting the culture , the language , the sounds and smells on the street , and where new ideas — like socialism , like anarchism or Bolshevism — were associated with literal newcomers . |
| 8 | ‘ We were literally giving the stuff away just to get people to use it , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 9 | But , nevertheless , that acceptance is rendered of no consequence by the claim that the theories were merely detailing the process of creation as already produced by the orthodox ‘ god ’ or ‘ gods ’ of antiquity . |
| 10 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 11 | Crowe and Imran were merely re-inventing the wheel . |
| 12 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 13 | The Kop were all doing the moslem arm-worship thing chanting ‘ Newsome-Newsome ’ and even waving Newsome 's picture in the Kop ( he was this week 's pinup ! ) |
| 14 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 15 | The Nuremberg courts rejected the plea of the defendants that they were only obeying the community standards of their day , since the gravity of their crimes had to be weighed against the highest moral standards of humanity , not the customs of the age or the community . |
| 16 | But because such men were materialists and therefore underestimated the power of spiritual and moral values ( despite the Soviet invention of the doctrine of ‘ dialectical materialism ’ ) , they failed to see that they were only perpetuating the problem of modernity in another form . |
| 17 | But erm , and you could always refer to it in your dialogue with them if you had a claim to make , er that they were only paying the district rate . |
| 18 | They were both speaking in the slightly lowered tone that meant they did not want to be overheard , and were only having the discussion at all because they believed Belinda to be safely out of earshot . |
| 19 | They were obviously nearing the airport ; signs announcing the different terminals were flashing by . |
| 20 | It later transpired that the Russians knew perfectly well what had happened , but were obviously enjoying the confusion their seemingly naive questions were provoking . |
| 21 | They were obviously telling the truth about themselves . |
| 22 | None of the Labour leaders felt that they should disobey the ruling of Conference that they should return to opposition : and some of them , most notably Morrison , were obviously relishing the prospect of the return to party politics . |
| 23 | ‘ They were all the Barclaycard customers who were not using the credit facility so they did n't want to pay the annual fee . |
| 24 | The result of the CAFU experiment was that the cockpit conversation between the flight crew when they were not using the intercom was crystal clear . |
| 25 | The-CAB door may have been officially ‘ open ’ but minorities were not accepting the invitation , It was felt that the way to remedy the situation was by recruiting more black advice workers so that black clients would feel more comfortable and so that black workers could help white workers to better understand black clients . |
| 26 | And the Dallams were not expecting the Nation to pay for Tristan . |
| 27 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 28 | In competition for new investment , hotels and ferries came way behind the main business and these two potentially successful concerns were not getting the management or main board attention they deserved . |
| 29 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 30 | A delegation of the residents complained that they were not getting the priority in rehousing which had been promised them and demanded to know whether or not they would be moved before the winter . |