Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if everybody was demanding lull portions for their children ? |
| 2 | The union was demanding wage increases of 216 per cent , while the industrialists ' association had offered 90 per cent . |
| 3 | In other words , a college had substantial Government money but was producing education standards that were not satisfactory to the inspectorate . |
| 4 | Of his own interest in flying , Mr Tholen said : ‘ I was using air taxis a lot to go to the Continent when I was working at Billingham . ’ |
| 5 | The pilot was flying the aircraft fairly close to the ground and was using road signs to help determine his location . |
| 6 | Within days of the election result and devastating discrediting of opinion polls , Peter Kellner was using opinion polls to explain why things were n't really that bad for the Labour Party . |
| 7 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 8 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 9 | The National Audit Office confirmed last night it was auditing Crown Suppliers accounts , and was examining its prospects for privatisation . |
| 10 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 11 | ‘ As a child my hobby was building model airplanes . |
| 12 | Looking at banking hours became a priority , as Saturday opening was helping building societies to woo bank customers . |
| 13 | In a sense he was singing siren songs to that part of himself which had got stuck in the old , dead forms , where the artist mattered more than the content . |
| 14 | He was eating nacho chips and drinking beer from the bottle and listening as Hilary Todd told him to forget about Piper , to stay in London , to wait for further instructions . |
| 15 | We found that a previous scheme , which was designed to help the machine tool industry — the small engineering investment scheme — was distorting business decisions . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the public sector was intensifying training opportunities to attract and develop accountants for new roles notably in health . |
| 17 | Denis Thatcher , who was knocking golf balls into cups , was at the same time rehearsing his speech , to be delivered at lunch that Thursday to the Hove Rotary Club . |
| 18 | If they had agreed a price the deal would have gone through just as SMS found itself in so much trouble with Volvo [ SMS was forced to resign the $40m Volvo account in early 1991 , after it was discovered the agency was rigging performance advertisements ] . |
| 19 | For while she was working on the Channel Four movie , Rubber Stamp , it was revealed that her sideline was staging sex shows . |
| 20 | He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do . |
| 21 | Twelve years ago , Ice-T was robbing jewellery stores , getting shot in drive-bys and selling hand grenades to street gangs in Los Angeles . |
| 22 | The early experience of the polytechnics and colleges has not been encouraging , with complaints from the Directors of Polytechnics that fierce competition was leading to the under-funding of courses and falling standards ; they also claimed that the Polytechnic and Colleges Funding Council was favouring diploma courses over degree work . |
| 23 | My colleagues fell about with mirth , demanding to know the nature of the in-depth investigation and whether I was seeking film rights . |
| 24 | When most public relations was writing press releases and liaising with the media , this experience was invaluable , but as public relations has become more sophisticated and developed its skills and functions , so a journalism background has become less important . |
| 25 | While Liz was nibbling pistachio nuts , surveying dominions , Shirley , hot , red and angry ( but not appearing to be angry ) was listening yet once more to her mother-in-law 's description of her digestive system and what the doctor had said about the swelling of her legs , a commentary which followed closely upon her complaints about the absence of her two older grandchildren who had ( in Shirley 's view very wisely ) buggered off to a disco at Maid Marian 's Nitespot . |
| 26 | Fire fighters were called to free a blocked roof drain which was causing flooding problems in classrooms at Kings Manor School , Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 28 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 29 | Closer perhaps to the title of this section , we might come to allow that the computer really was paying tax refunds ( because it said it was ) , even though all detective work on its machine code program was consistent with it being occupied directing the trajectories of inter-continental ballistic missiles . |
| 30 | Martin who was directing pop videos at the time showed me the video just after leaving college . |