Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 2 | The Guildsmen were wading through the audience , overturning benches and chasing children away with the backs of their hands . |
| 3 | Wives were assisting with the lambing , looking after calves , and most probably administering drugs to young stock when needed . |
| 4 | They were assisting in the birth of government as the modem world has known it . |
| 5 | Intercontinent were assisting in the formation of Hindustan Aircraft in India , and an assembly line for the PC-5A was set-up there . |
| 6 | Inflation prospects were encouraging following the fall in the headline and underlying rate , which excludes mortgage rates , in April . |
| 7 | Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company . |
| 8 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 9 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 10 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 11 | One dull afternoon , on the last day of October , he and Willie were kneeling on the window ledge in the sitting room of the Littles ' cottage . |
| 12 | No doubt there were also older men who were farming in the township , but most farms were smallholdings and their occupants were usually described by their craft names . |
| 13 | She was anxious not to make a noise , but even though her feet fell softly into the leaves strewing the path the wood was so still and silent that she really felt as if she were thudding through the wood . |
| 14 | Artemis had sometimes taken this run when out with her cowardly cousins , although she would always jump the open ditch and hedge while her cousins were fumbling with the gate . |
| 15 | Believing Gorbachev 's policies were deviating from a number of fundamental Marxist principles , a group of members formed the Marxist Platform of the CPSU shortly before the selection of delegates to the 28th Congress of the CPSU . |
| 16 | Her hands were sticking to the wheel . |
| 17 | Those not on exercise , shooting on the range or included in particular duties , were gathering outside the gymnasium . |
| 18 | Hunters were gathering over the dome . |
| 19 | As her eyes grew more accustomed to the hellish gloom , Tallis could see how many of these forlorn corpses were gathering on the north bank of the river . |
| 20 | They were gathering on the Strip , in the coffee houses like the Unicorn , Mac 's , Luan 's and the Renaissance . |
| 21 | Neighbours who had heard the noise were gathering round the door and chattering noisily . |
| 22 | Describing the arrest , she said : ‘ We got up and looked out of the window , and saw police were gathering by the minute — loads of them with rifles and guns — and we got quite frightened . |
| 23 | And so , er , when th the reapers were gathering in the harvest they were not allowed to go right to the edge of the field , they had to leave a border , they were not to go right into the corners , they were to leave those areas , so that the poorer members , so that those who did not have could come and could gather what was left behind . |
| 24 | In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics . |
| 25 | He was in charge of a group of MSC workers who were helping with the work . |
| 26 | ‘ That week orchestras around the world programmed the Adagietto as an elegy to Lenny 's memory , ’ Kaplan recalls , ‘ and while the precedent had been set by Bernstein himself [ he had conducted the movement at a memorial service for Koussevitzky and later at the funeral of US Senator Robert Kennedy ] , I was afraid that these ultra-slow , sad performances were helping to a trend into a false tradition . ’ |
| 27 | With relentless detail she documented the effects that the petrochemical ‘ elixirs of death ’ — ; the pesticides which farmers still regard as an integral part of modern agriculture — were wreaking on the wildlife of the countryside . |
| 28 | Investigations came hot on the heels of the new sound and realistic films and by the time of The Public Enemy and Scarface things were building to a crescendo . |
| 29 | At the same time , events across the North Sea were building to a crisis . |
| 30 | Then , noting that clouds were building to the west , he took his afternoon walk about the fashionable quarter of Brussels . |