Example sentences of "were [v-ing] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Athenian involvement in Sicily and support of the Ionian , or rather non-Dorian , cities there was the cause of Syracusan expansion , or whether the Athenians were reacting in alarm to Syracusan aggressions against Athenian friends , is hard to say , so gappy is the narrative . |
| 2 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 3 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 4 | But an increase in the supply of dollars implied a persistent US balance of payments deficit ( e.g. exporters to the USA accept payments in dollars , or payments overseas by US residents are made in dollars ) , and this would undermine confidence in the dollar as a reserve currency because dollar claims were growing in relation to US gold reserves . |
| 5 | If agreement was reached that inter-generational equity existed under the present system , then option l would mean that current taxpayers were benefiting in relation to future taxpayers , on the other hand , option 3 would mean that future taxpayers were benefiting in relation to current taxpayers . |
| 6 | If agreement was reached that inter-generational equity existed under the present system , then option l would mean that current taxpayers were benefiting in relation to future taxpayers , on the other hand , option 3 would mean that future taxpayers were benefiting in relation to current taxpayers . |
| 7 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 8 | At the same time , if two friends were running in opposition to one another for the same office , aid to one was sure to offend the other . |
| 9 | There should be some monitoring of what the statutory agencies were doing in relation to West Belfast . |
| 10 | We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam |
| 11 | Thus the government enquiry into the educational achievements of West Indian and Asian children in 1978–9 in six local education authorities with high concentration of ethnic minorities showed that West Indian children were under-achieving in relation to other children . |