Example sentences of "[was/were] happening to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearings and appeals became part of the pattern of life for the families , their legal advisers , their friends and supporters , and indeed for the press and media corps that were reporting what was happening to the outside world . |
| 2 | Clearly something strange was happening to the Edwardian Conservative party : but does one need to label it as a flirtation with ‘ proto-Fascism ’ ? |
| 3 | Something was happening to the five , however . |
| 4 | We have produced reports year after year expressing anxiety at what was happening to the British coal industry . |
| 5 | In the first place , we should not paint too pessimistic a view of what was happening to the landed classes , since the experiences of this group varied considerably from region to region . |