Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reached Stephen 's jeep , where the porter was piling the bags into the back . |
| 2 | The JD 's baseplate is actually better finished , although when it arrived the guitar was lacking the low E grubscrew , rendering the guitar virtually unplayable . |
| 3 | An even easier victory followed , at Moy , nine miles [ 14 km ] short of Inverness , where the prince was staying the night of 16–17 February at the local big house , Moy Hall . |
| 4 | In making the distinction the writer was upholding the Enlightenment philosophy that conclusions should be based upon rationality and not upon psychological dispositions . |
| 5 | The trick was wearing the knife in the scabbard upside-down on the belt . |
| 6 | The tide was lapping the harbour wall within a yard of his feet . |
| 7 | By the time the shipmaster had practically blasted the sail off them with his cursing , the tide was carrying the lymphad sideways up into the mouth of the Sound . |
| 8 | How terrible it must be for her to attend this service for Mrs Wright whose baby had survived and while the Padre was speaking the Collector accompanied his words with a silent , sympathetic prayer for Mrs Bennett : " O God , whose ways are hidden and thy works most wonderful , who makest nothing in vain , and lovest all that thou hast made , Comfort this thy servant whose heart is sore smitten and oppressed … " but the rest of the prayer was no longer in his mind , stolen no doubt by the foxes of despair that continued to raid his beliefs … in any case , it faded into a mournful reverie in which he sought an explanation for the death of Mrs Bennett 's child . |
| 9 | When the Chairman was introducing the report , I intervened on the question of nuclear power . |
| 10 | In seconds , or so it seemed , the Glory was mounting the rutted track up to Monument Hill . |
| 11 | Thus two years ago , when Ministry of Education planners introduced a more practical and less theoretical maths programme in technical schools , several teachers who had been trained in Portugal in colonial times complained that by dropping square-root calculations from the course , the ministry was reducing the ‘ quality ’ of education . |
| 12 | Perhaps because of his professionalism , perhaps because of his advancing years , the 70-year-old composer and ex-first trumpet player of the LPO was treating the recording sessions very much as a live performance . |
| 13 | He opened his recruitment consultancy in January 1991 , just as the recession was revealing the depths to which it could sink . |
| 14 | A chauffeur-driven Mercedes arrived at Waterloo to collect them for the agm at Skinners ' Hall but while the driver was searching the station his car was wheel-clamped . |
| 15 | So yet again , the budget was reflecting the amount of money necessary to maintain existing services . |
| 16 | At today 's inquest held in Oxford coroner Nicholas Gardiner said : ’ Arrangements were made to call the doctor but sadly even while she and the sister were discussing the patient Mrs Johansen was in the process of dieing . |
| 17 | The ‘ men ’ of the branch were belittling the game saying how simple it was , and there was no great feat in winning it . |
| 18 | ‘ You said the wheelbarrow was doing the natural thing — but it was n't falling . ’ |
| 19 | Some of the light was leaving the day . |
| 20 | The Corporal was carrying the dead German 's Spandau , and the two other Commandos had a scruffy and shifty-eyed civilian by the scruff of the neck . |
| 21 | True , it was not so spectacular as earlier assaults on it , such as the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 , so it is hardly surprising that Israeli leaders should have so contemptuously dismissed it , so patently failed to understand its revolutionary import : that , for the first time , the enemy was offering the prospect of the civilised , peaceful , negotiated settlement for which Israel had clamoured since its foundation . |
| 22 | So peaceful had the volcano been , in fact , that its fertile soils were extensively cultivated , vineyards flourished on favoured sunny slopes , and the people living on and around the volcano were enjoying the prosperity and security of the Roman empire at its height . |
| 23 | Not so long ago the Labour was singing the praises of the trade union movement , especially the G M B , yet , only last night on T V a Shadow Minister , David said the G M B were wrong in what they were doing , they should be behind John Smith . |
| 24 | On Aug 28 , Croatian television reported that the President was reducing the number of ministries from20 to 14 . |
| 25 | In Moscow , Yeltsin spokesmen said the president was awaiting the outcome of Mr Kozyrev 's US visit before deciding whether to ask Mr Clinton to transfer their planned Vancouver summit meeting next month to Moscow . |
| 26 | The wind was billowing the silk curtains on its way through the acres of banana palms . |
| 27 | So sorry about your hubby 's mishap though , it must be awkward having no arms and legs at all now , I did shout for you to stop but the wind was blowing the other way . |
| 28 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ The current was drifting them one way and the wind was blowing the boat the other . ’ |
| 29 | Environmentalists welcomed the move , claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem . |
| 30 | PC Whitehouse , 24 , had felt the car was allowing the police car to draw close . |