Example sentences of "were [v-ing] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 2 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 3 | Yanto laughed as he realised his shoulders were covered with fish scales which were flashing in the dim light of the oil lamp . |
| 4 | Although those terrifying Latin countries were building in a classical style by then , England preferred her own flights of fancy . |
| 5 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 6 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 7 | The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky . |
| 8 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 9 | To some extent the spending was diversionary because it deflected attention from the cuts that were occurring in the orthodox funding mechanisms for current and capital expenditure . |
| 10 | Just as England 's hopes were dying in the third and final Test against India in Bombay , Hick revived his side with a magnificent innings of 99 not out . |
| 11 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |
| 12 | The room was largely uninhabited : a group of women in jeans were laughing in the opposite corner , and two girls were in earnest conversation by the window , pink spiky heads leaning together . |
| 13 | Wincing involuntarily , feeling as if she were groping in a dark quicksand , she said quickly , ‘ Business … ’ |
| 14 | Their guests were assembling in the open-air piazza below . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Because of the shortages of girls for nursing , many ads were appearing in the daily papers . |
| 17 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 18 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 19 | Dry off all the bits you were soaking in the soapy water . |
| 20 | They were swarming in an endless moving blanket along every surface inside the shuttle . |
| 21 | The tree-tops were bowing in the rising wind , and it sounded as though they , too , were sighing . |
| 22 | Because these two people , who knew each other well , were meeting in a strange place , they felt like the strangers they were when they first met , and neither spoke for a moment . |
| 23 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 24 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 25 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 26 | It was a place of extreme temperatures : one moment you were shivering in an icy draught from some gap in the outside wall , the next you felt the frightening heat of a furnace 's breath on your face . |
| 27 | By then we were living in a dirt-cheap place on the Bowery . |
| 28 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 29 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 30 | By now they were living in a small town , Modyokerto . |