Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented . |
| 2 | Another group of children were helping to make a puppet . |
| 3 | Even in Central Asia , the railway and its stations were helping to make the world one . |
| 4 | They were also exercising their right in keeping with the loyalty with which they were born , as they were helping to rebuild a security station . |
| 5 | Two urchins were struggling to detach the machine gun from its mount . |
| 6 | He once finished third , but more often he has sacrificed his own chances by slowing down to help British runners who were struggling to complete the course . |
| 7 | Roy was a tough , chunky inside-forward who joined the Palace from neighbours Millwall when we were struggling to make an impact on the 4th Division leadership . |
| 8 | It was littered with ladders , pails and other decorators ' paraphernalia and the air was permeated with the odour of the chemical the workmen were using to strip the woodwork . |
| 9 | You were goin' to make a tart , were n't you ? |
| 10 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it turned out to be somewhat of an anti-climax when a rubber dinghy with two occupants was found to be from a Fishery Protection vessel , the two officers concerned were landing to attend a wedding . |
| 12 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 13 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 14 | We were endeavouring to develop the policy that would become the programme of a Labour Government who would take power in about 1990-91 and remain in office until about 1995-96 , by which time we would have the beginnings of the Trident programme . |
| 15 | In all three republics , with minor local variations , a largely united people with a distinct cultural identity and a previous history of self-rule were seeking to renegotiate the nature of their relationship with the Soviet state and its economic and political system . |
| 16 | Throughout the Italo-Abyssinian conflict of this period , Nizan forcefully argued the need for collective security , on the one hand , by voicing his implacable opposition to the colonial ambitions of Mussolini , and on the other , by focusing attention on the highly dubious diplomatic manoeuvres of the British and French governments , the more reactionary elements of which were seeking to use the conflict as a " pretext for a new imperialist arms race " . |
| 17 | According to one , Sotheby 's had foreclosed and were seeking to sell the painting themselves in Switzerland at a price around $35m , a substantial reduction on the auction price — a private sale being preferred to the public ignominy of auction . |
| 18 | Here we faced a familiar dilemma : the Department of Transport and the county council were seeking to improve a trunk road and , seeing a large area of parkland , decided to take the new road through the park , cutting off a large swathe near the main entrance gates . |
| 19 | So far as the La Pintada case [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 is concerned , that case differs from the present in the following material respects : ( 1 ) In the La Pintada case the plaintiffs were seeking to establish an extension of the common law that would apply in parallel to the statutory provisions . |
| 20 | They were seeking to establish the link between blood temperature and someone 's relative mental ability , whereby if you know one you can estimate the other . |
| 21 | There were reports that some ministers , less optimistic in the face of evidence that a number of her supporters were already defecting to Heseltine , were seeking to stabilise the situation by holding out the prospect that Mrs Thatcher might retire voluntarily in the spring , making an orderly succession possible then . |
| 22 | Therefore , the plaintiffs , a partnership in general medical practice , were seeking to prevent an employee once he had left , from , inter alia , practising as a consultant within a certain area and for a certain time . |
| 23 | Earlier this evening at the Tory twins were recommending to read the city council funding handbook , I would also like to recommend that they also learn something about Tory housing policy . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Poland and Czechoslovakia were refusing to allow the transit of Soviet military equipment being brought back to Moscow from Soviet installations in eastern Germany . |
| 25 | City were looking to make the effort for a promotion spot when entertaining a side from the bottom half of the table , after being held to a draw last week . |
| 26 | Yet even before the project got under way , British pressure groups were lobbying to have the enterprise suppressed . |
| 27 | As we were scrambling to finish the issue , a BBC TV crew came into the office to ask Laura her views on access to the countryside . |
| 28 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 29 | In the in the very beginning of our Bibles er the the the prophets and all such people were wanting to establish the fact of God . |
| 30 | The authorities claimed they were conspiring to overthrow the government , which is dominated by a different community , the Moors , but offered no evidence to substantiate this claim . |