Example sentences of "were [v-ing] ground [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 1988 life assurance companies were gaining ground on pension funds , with individual life assurance premiums doubling their share of the personal savings market to 1988 . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a sense the dealers were losing ground to the auction houses ’ relentless PR blitz ’ , says O. Kelley Anderson , a dealer and the fair 's director . |
| 3 | Noting that Japanese businesses were losing ground to their US rivals , Li Peng commented that sanctions had brought " some difficulties " to China but had also harmed those who had imposed them . |
| 4 | Worse still , the camps were breeding grounds for fever , and Battle in 1809 suffered severely from a typhoid outbreak which began in its barracks . |
| 5 | This partial regularisation of the Beguine life-style in enclosed groups with restricted movement and in association with orthodox religious communities , was the condition of their recognition by the Church , and important as a safeguard from the suspicion that their free and irregular communities and enthusiastic piety were breeding grounds for heresy . |