Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could you measure to show that change was occurring ( ie how could you ‘ measure ’ something or things to determine whether you were successfully meeting the aims/goals you listed for Question 1 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |
| 4 | Even his strong hands holding hers captive were n't hurting ; on the contrary , even that manacle was exciting because his thumbs were slowly stroking the insides of her wrists , sending shafts of awareness along her arms to her body , which was growing warm , soft , as though inviting his to sink further against her , into her … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps these inhabitants of the underworld were slowly losing the struggle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Last I saw , a couple of hand-in-hand schoolkids had fished them out and were avidly reading the instruction leaflet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was as if those brawnier possessors of more organs were impatiently awaiting a signal , a pheromone in the air … |
| 11 | ‘ We were literally giving the stuff away just to get people to use it , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 12 | As with Hitler 's nazis , Blackshirts argued that in using weapons they were merely copying the tactics of their opponents . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Crowe and Imran were merely re-inventing the wheel . |
| 16 | Angalo and Gurder had nestled deep into the rubbish and were gloomily eating the remains of a cold , greasy chip . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day . |
| 19 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 20 | 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 ! ) |
| 21 | The Costa Rican Interior and Security Minster Luis Fishman Zonzinski , the Honduran Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán , Mgr Luis Alfonso Santos , Mexico 's ambassador to Costa Rica , Jesús Cabrera Muñoz Ledo , and a Honduran police colonel , were seized on Sept. 23 in the Costa Rican capital , San José , by a member of the Honduran left-wing Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement ( MPLC or Cinchoneros ) with whom they were apparently holding a meeting . |
| 22 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't been up in winter but I was on the south-west face in 1972 when we finally gave up our attempt in mid-November , and we were only getting a taste of the conditions they will face . |
| 24 | They were only 'avin' a chin-wag outside 'er winder an' yer know 'ow they blaspheme . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In obtaining their most precious substances from remote environments the Danubian peasants were only following a pattern set long previously by Upper Palaeolithic man . |
| 28 | They 're not , they 're not big trees or nothing so I mean there was , it was only a , like one of these small power chain saws , one hand sort of thing , grab hold of it like that , there was nothing , no really big branches , were only cutting the tops off . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |