Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage the media hounds were sniffing News on Sunday for signs of Loony or Hard Left activity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While children were spending time on task and on different curriculum areas in similar proportions to those identified in other studies , it was also clear that such figures are by no means inevitable or appropriate . |
| 4 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 5 | Mrs Abigail , she 'd told Lavinia , had called her a fool that morning just because she dropped a tin plate when they were doing Meals on Wheels . |
| 6 | In Rome , Italia ‘ 90 's director-general , Luca Di Montezemolo , acknowledged that Spain were putting pressure on Fifa . |
| 7 | The Eurocurrency market is a wholesale market ; it had its origins in holdings of US dollars outside the US in the sixties at a time when the US authorities were placing restrictions on capital exports . |
| 8 | Lloyds Bank chief Brian Pitman denied they were increasing margins on loans to support profits in the recession . |
| 9 | Most of the remaining inmates were watching wrestling on television . |
| 10 | Three more children were watching athletics on television . |
| 11 | Derek , who was Catering Manager on board the flotel the MSV Tharos at the time , was directly involved on the night of the disaster . |
| 12 | ‘ But when Gazza said the word beginning with F while he was representing England on TV before the Norway international , nothing was done . |
| 13 | Just one of the students sponsored by their employer was seeking employment on completion — not surprisingly , the rest had jobs . |
| 14 | Again , if like Peter , Jesus was likening conditions on earth at the time of His promised return and judgment to an event which was only myth or legend then the ‘ blessed hope ’ would be reduced to ‘ no hope ’ . |
| 15 | But he feared the bill could be lost because the Government , by including the words ‘ any subsequent development of such embryos ’ in the bill 's long title , was permitting debate on abortion time limits . |
| 16 | The best bit was racing quads on ice — we had a good laugh about that . ’ |
| 17 | Jim Hall , a founder of the ICRDG and one of its driving forces , was doing geology on land in his native Britain and in Africa , when he was , like Vine , ‘ bitten by the bug of the ocean floor ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ But when I was maybe eighteen I had a stereo Sony machine and was doing sound on sound recording . |
| 19 | If I was spending £500-ish on amplification , I 'd be looking for good second-hand gear , and there 's loads of that about . |
| 20 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 21 | Marham was to provide all of the Washington aircraft for the review which was taking place on July 15 , 1953 ; a 12-ship formation and four a static display . |
| 22 | Fuck her I was drinking stout on Saturday night and normally do n't do it because we 've simply no money ! on the vodka and say it was n't even enough to buy a carry out but do n't say it unless she says she was here ! |
| 23 | Fears that the Government was putting constraints on research it commissions were fuelled when , last year , the then DHSS inserted a new clause in its contract with outside researchers . |
| 24 | The others pardoned were two intelligence officials — Duane R. Clarridge , the former head of the CIA 's European Division , who was awaiting trial on charges of having misled Congress [ see also p. 38428 ] , and Alan D. Fiers , a CIA official who had pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress , but who later co-operated with the authorities and served as the prosecution 's chief witness at George 's trial [ see p. 39043 ] . |
| 25 | Lillie , Lillie , we was playing darts on Monday , came out from the ladies toilets ' and said You ought to see that skirting board , it 's all coming away and rotting . |
| 26 | when I was advising people on unit trust things it was always the price of your units may rise and , as well as fall . |
| 27 | Douglas Avery was watching snooker on television . |
| 28 | The government was lavishing money on roads instead of railways and the developers were cashing in on a projected ‘ up-grading ’ of the existing A road to a motorway , thus bringing Suffolk into the commuter zone . |
| 29 | It appeared on the day that I was answering questions on transport on the floor of the House and there was a question on the future of railway services on the order paper . |
| 30 | He comes from the DSS where he was formulating policy on pensions and was a former private secretary to Minister for Disabled People , Nicholas Scott . |