Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 2 | On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions . |
| 3 | Referring to the concessions the Danes negotiated in Edinburgh under Britain 's presidency of the European Community , he said : ‘ The Edinburgh concessions were binding in international law , but have no value in Community law , and Community law overrides international law . |
| 4 | Now the row of islanders , at least two men deep , confronted the stockade where four cannon had been brought to bear on them ; the English forces were firing in furious waves of shot from the top of the stockade . |
| 5 | Hawton and Blackstock ( 1976 ) found that during these visits the doctors had , in most cases , detected symptoms of psychological distress , including anxiety and depression , and were also aware that the patients were contending with social and relationship difficulties . |
| 6 | It was discovered in the cardiac intensive care unit where 10 children were recovering from open-heart surgery . |
| 7 | We examined the mitotic rate of Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells that were proliferating in low serum under the influence of β -oestradiol-activated c-Myc , with and without Bcl-2 expression . |
| 8 | Because they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they were struggling against tremendous odds , they were struggling against er er all sorts of er er of er of trickery , that er was being conducted by quite a quite a few of the er quite a few of the major powers . |
| 9 | Even in the smaller specific groups , women often felt that they were struggling against thinly-disguised misogyny . |
| 10 | The studio was full ; most of the students were painting from the model , a few were drawing from still life . |
| 11 | Thus in 1910 Gates head was identified , along with Coventry and Clydebank , as an area of acute housing need because all three were boom towns and were drawing in massive amounts of labour , attracted by high wages . |
| 12 | The West Germans were becoming increasingly eager to cultivate relations across the Iron Curtain , and both sides were hinting at new arms talks . |
| 13 | She were coughing like mad ! |
| 14 | The boys , meanwhile , were yanking on elastic-sided ankle boots ; very hip , very Beatles . |
| 15 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 16 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 17 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 18 | He was both puzzled and annoyed by the number of drivers who swished past him as though they were driving in bright sunshine . |
| 19 | Analysis has been limited to manufacturing , but similar trends were occurring in other sectors , and the process of concentration had features which are of more general significance . |
| 20 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 21 | Europeans were consuming more in these years , they were dying of different diseases at later periods of life , their physique ( taking rough measures such as those of height ) was improving . |
| 22 | Years elapsed in his memory just as light years were elapsing in ordinary space as they fled onward . |
| 23 | But Infas chief pollster Hans-Juergen Hoffmann said it was wrong to assume that the sudden explosion in neo-Nazi violence meant Germans as a whole were reverting to past attitudes . |
| 24 | For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) . |
| 25 | They were becoming in short ‘ world citizens ’ . |
| 26 | Her eyes were prickling with ridiculous tears when they all settled back down to eat . |
| 27 | The same people who 'd listened to those jokes were laughing in earnest now ; were calling him ridiculous . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , ‘ nihilistic views ’ were intensifying among young people ; they were becoming politically disorientated , and some had even argued that it was ‘ time to call to account the Communists who had supposedly ‘ humanised ’ the country 's life after 1917' . |
| 29 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |
| 30 | The national populous actually turned a blind eye to atrocities that were happening with human beings . |