Example sentences of "were [v-ing] in [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 2 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 3 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 4 | Of the carers in the 1985 GHS who were living in the same household as the person receiving care , 51 per cent of women reported spending at least fifty hours a week giving help compared with only 39 per cent of men . |
| 5 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 6 | All the figures , some of them cloaked like witches , were facing in the same direction — away from Maisie and Robert . |
| 7 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 8 | The director had told her most of the cast and crew were staying in the same hotel , and a room had been reserved for her there , too . |
| 9 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 10 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 11 | Two years to the day after the killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's massage parlour . |
| 12 | Two years to the day after the brutal killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's Massage parlour . |