Example sentences of "[was/were] setting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were setting up Eurofest ‘ 75 — an evangelistic congress for 8,000 young people in Brussels in 1975 — a number of advertising agents came to ‘ sell ’ me on their company . |
| 2 | Though he could n't hear them , Trent knew that they were setting up a race . |
| 3 | Into this I placed little ‘ oily ’ pools where cancer cells were setting up their colonies and I imagined the cells themselves as amoeba or tadpole like creatures , smooth , slippery and with large eyes . |
| 4 | They finished and we were backstage and our guys were setting up our stuff and all these bikers in the audience started to chant , ‘ Poofter , poofter , ’ which was aimed at me , and we were thinking , ‘ Oh know , this is ugly . ’ |
| 5 | Without any fuss they were setting up a machine-gun while a party came straight up the hill towards the ambush positions . |
| 6 | They were setting up an introduction agency for Thai women and British men . |
| 7 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |
| 8 | When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going . |
| 9 | While the mechanics were setting up the cars , she thought she 'd go outside into one of the empty stands to try to find a breath of wind , anything rather than standing in the back of the pits in the high humidity which made her skin glow . |
| 10 | In a statement broadcast on national radio , the soldiers , who appeared to be led by Capt. Valentine Strasser , announced that they were setting up a National Provisional Defence Council . |
| 11 | ‘ You be careful of those tiles ! ’ he yelled towards the boys in the bathroom who were setting up a step-ladder in the bath . |
| 12 | The swimmers and sunbathers had all gone , getting ready for dinner , and the groundsmen were setting up the tables and lighting the barbecue . |
| 13 | Today the organisers were setting up . |
| 14 | ‘ When we were setting up our flagship London/Glasgow service , it took us seven months of negotiation with BR to get an acceptable time slot , ’ he claimed . |
| 15 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 16 | Up to 180 boats were setting as much as 8000 km ( 5000 miles ) of net each night during the 4-month season . |
| 17 | This time , however , the bank could only afford 55% cover against its loans while the other banks were setting aside 70% or even 80% . |
| 18 | Mr Harris , 51 , and his wife were setting out for church in Lisburn , Co Antrim . |
| 19 | As Cole points out , the Pioneers ‘ were setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society ; and this seemed natural to them because all their endeavours were meant to lead to the creation of a Co-operative Community on the Owenite model , in which the distinction between producers and consumers would not exist . ’ |
| 20 | Statement of objectives : clear statements of what departments were setting out to do were required . |
| 21 | At around the same time the police were setting out to interview Pascoe again . |
| 22 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 23 | Keeping under cover , Adam followed a group who were setting off from their barracks . |
| 24 | For most of the children it was a big adventure , at least when they were setting off with their school friends . |
| 25 | Why did you suppose we were setting off with a stretcher and torches , at this time of night ? ’ |
| 26 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 27 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 28 | They said they were setting off at nine o'clock as if to go |
| 29 | It was Saturday evening as we neared the low-lying reaches of sandy shore and the outlying rocks of Tiree , and the sun was setting peacefully as our steamer came alongside of the stone pier at Scaranish Harbour , and we saw a sand-environed bay with some veteran sloops fixed in the sand — no more to mount o'er the waves of ocean , and spread ample sails to the breeze of heaven — left there , I am told , because it would not be deemed lucky to break them up . |
| 30 | It was as if the graft was setting up a whole new embryo and re-specifying the positions of the cells in its vicinity . |