Example sentences of "it was [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Houston company said it was closely managing gross margins and tightly controlling expenses . |
| 2 | The story , which traces some of the bad feelings Novell harbours towards Microsoft to the spoiled deal , says Novell got skittish after it shared inside information with Microsoft and then found it was secretly negotiating to take over Fox Software . |
| 3 | ‘ When we were young it was deep mourning for a year and half mourning for six months , ’ Pat said . |
| 4 | On both occasions the Soviet Union made up for the extreme weakness of its client but , by providing the personnel to operate missile sites , it was consciously limiting the ways in which these missiles could be used against Israel . |
| 5 | And it was either thinking about the wage packet at end of week which I was at first . |
| 6 | When Mrs Funnell had visited him , she had upbraided him firmly for his deception and he , in his most plaintive voice , had said , ‘ I 'm a man , and it was either taking a decent woman or resorting to casual encounters . |
| 7 | It was thus acquiring additional rights ‘ to receive the place for which it is destined ’ but instead of independence , there was the rather less exciting prospect of an Indochinese Federation which would ‘ enjoy the liberty and the organization necessary to the development of all its resources ’ . |
| 8 | Opened in 1779 by the village blacksmith , John Harvey , it was soon building some of the world 's largest boilers and stationary steam engines . |
| 9 | The National Dancing Troupe was immediately established , and made a study of Tanzanian dance and dance mime throughout the country ; it was soon performing regularly both at home and abroad . |
| 10 | This trading concern , based in Winterthur and Bombay was started in 1851 by Salomon Volkart ( 1816–1893 ) and was so successful that it was soon founding banks and insurance companies , and was one of the stalwarts of Switzerland 's growing influence in world business affairs . |
| 11 | It was strictly binding concerning their exclusive services to RKO so there would be no perks for performing at parties or advertising products . |
| 12 | Then the weather got cold and I must 've realized it was nice havin' warm feet 'cos Mam said she never had no trouble with me after that . |
| 13 | ‘ So long John , it was nice knowing you . ’ |
| 14 | She told her table companions it was nice having hand-picked attendants all the way to Vancouver . |
| 15 | Also it was oddly reassuring to recognise the same issues of non-participation , official steam-rollering , and apathy in case studies from Scotland and Appalachia . |
| 16 | It was equally uncomforting . |
| 17 | It was equally baffling how , over the past three or four years , when the various markets were showing extremely poor returns , that with-profit plans were increasing their standard and terminal bonuses . |
| 18 | Visiting them at Christmas was particularly rewarding for the field-worker in order to see conspired contacts demonstrate the regard in which they held the neighbourhood police ; of course , it was equally rewarding for the police . |
| 19 | It was equally fitting that following the opening , the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster flew over Wexford House in salute . |
| 20 | Anglo-American Corporation announced on Nov. 11 that it was temporarily laying off between 4,000 and 5,000 workers without pay as part of its efforts to defuse tensions at the mine . |
| 21 | Blaming its current economic difficulties on the absence of multilateral aid ( frozen since the coup ) , the government announced on Aug. 26 that it was temporarily withdrawing from the Andean Pact , the five-country trade bloc whose other members were Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador and Venezuela . |
| 22 | In what was presented as action to protect its foreign exchange reserves ( which had fallen to $5,600 million according to government sources ) the government on July 5 , 1989 , informed the " Paris Club " group of creditors that it was temporarily deferring payment of $812,000,000 in interest which had been due on June 30 and July 3 . |
| 23 | It was easier galloping with his head straight , and the horse could now see that the man was quite relaxed . |
| 24 | It was easier going for Hugh who was now in great pain , but Marian and Allen became more watchful and uneasy because the most uncertain and dangerous of all possible enemies , man , was near . |
| 25 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 26 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 27 | It was finally sinking in that if a year could go by , then so could two , or even three . |
| 28 | It was finally happening . |
| 29 | It was clearly going to be easier to obtain tickets in South Africa . |
| 30 | It was clearly going to be a little tougher than expected , but the visitors kept playing for hearts as well as minds . |