Example sentences of "[was/were] happening [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 2 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 3 | STRANGE things were happening on an Ulster hillside last week . |
| 4 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 5 | While these events were happening in the workhouse , the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates were playing cards in Fagin 's house . |
| 6 | That there was a that they were gon na be trailing behind the peasant movement and that how that they had to sort of get a hold over all the all the changes that were happening in the country . |
| 7 | But oh we were told about the war and what was happening between the Germans and whatnot . |
| 8 | Before 5 October 1968 the handful of NICRA activists had a very simple and extremely limited impression of what was happening across the Atlantic . |
| 9 | With a fine disregard for what was happening across the Channel , the Attlee government convinced itself and others that the British welfare state was unique in the world — to be deeply startled in the 1950s by the news that many continental neighbours had a more generous provision of social welfare than the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | There was no point in worrying about what was happening aboard the Simonova . |
| 11 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 12 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 13 | Some worried employees even called news organisations in Dallas and Fort Worth to find out what was happening at the company . |
| 14 | in what was happening at the door . |
| 15 | And a settin' in was what was happening at the pub — the reason it got closed . |
| 16 | Something was happening at the windows . |
| 17 | Glancing at the old man , Jack suddenly realized he was just trying to distract him , to prevent his mind leaping ahead to whatever was happening at the hospital . |
| 18 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 19 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 20 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 21 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 22 | But that 's exactly what was happening at the launch last month of Accountancy Television ( ATV ) , a new service that will provide accountants with news , views and training once a week over the next year . |
| 23 | In that you could see what was happening on the floor but it did n't show continuity of work which easily |
| 24 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 25 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told the 2,400 troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 26 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 27 | Thus Hamilton cruised up and down the coast , out of touch with what was happening on the beaches . |
| 28 | All three of the Americans were watching DeVore closely now , ignoring what was happening on the screen . |
| 29 | We know a fair amount about what was happening on the east coast of Scotland at that date , but not nearly so much about the west . |
| 30 | I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts . |