Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] in [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These children showed most response when they had finished modelling and were only interested in talking about their own model very little interest in those made by others in the group . |
| 2 | Ivan Cooper and other speakers were less ambiguous in calling for restraint and Betty Sinclair came back to ask the crowd to disperse quietly . |
| 3 | Women were especially involved in looking after the sick animals where their patience and ‘ mothering instinct ’ were valuable . |
| 4 | PRIVATE detectives were more interested in getting between the sheets than working undercover , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 5 | They were still interested in affiliating to the Labour Party , though under the Labour Party rules this could not be recognised until 1940 . |
| 6 | The two women were slightly late in arriving at Geoffrey 's college that evening . |
| 7 | Other specific historical conditions and institutions distinct from those found in other Western European countries were also important in accounting for differences in the major characteristics of French trade unions . |
| 8 | MCA were particularly effective in winning over the local media , notably the freesheet newspapers . |
| 9 | Again reformers were undoubtedly right in pointing to precarious tenures as removable hindrances ( estorbos ) : many Castilian and Andalusian tenures made improvement by the tenant equivalent to economic suicide and encouraged short leases and rack renting . |
| 10 | AIB Bank also were very generous in contributing to our Funds and we are indeed very grateful to them . |
| 11 | In contrast , NCp7A was less active in binding to and protecting DNAs while NCp7D was found to interact poorly with the DNAs . |
| 12 | Moreover , the vice of sodomy , which Anselm was especially harsh in denouncing in his conciliar decrees , was not one to which Henry 's court , unlike Rufus 's , was especially addicted . |
| 13 | So , when issues of equal opportunity were raised in the organization where we also work together , I was naturally interested in participating in the debates and in the attempts to change the things around me . |
| 14 | It was as if he had blocked out that part of his life and was only interested in talking about the future . |
| 15 | ‘ Madam ’ was only interested in hurrying to her friend . |
| 16 | Its predecessor was extremely clear in dealing with the fundamental concepts of special relativity and although Rindler 's new book is more discursive and modern in its approach ( for example , its treatment of space time ) it does lose out in succinctness . |
| 17 | Between 1263 and 1265 he was much involved in treating for peace at home between the king and his barons . |
| 18 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 19 | I was also lucky in working for a sergeant who happened to have only three figures in his official service number , a relic of the old Royal Flying Corps . |
| 20 | When cancers did respond , radiotherapy was particularly useful in dealing with secondary growths which were too widespread for surgical relief . |
| 21 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 22 | In Europe new movements were arising which were totally different from previous political parties , and the conventional wisdom of British foreign policy was quite irrelevant in dealing with them . |
| 23 | She was indeed inexperienced in teaching RE having been unhappy with what she had hitherto been expected to present . |
| 24 | When I addressed the General Meeting last year I was heavily involved in preparing for the move from Gray 's Inn to Bedford Row . |
| 25 | In 1987 , Killingworth bureau was actively involved in promoting among young people an awareness of their rights and responsibilities concerning contacts with the police , especially since the police and Criminal Evidence Act came into force . |
| 26 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 27 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 28 | ‘ He was very interested in going to Constantinople , for instance . |