Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Algerian League for Defence of Human Rights ( LADDH ) was quoted on Nov. 7 as alleging that the security forces were using torture against detainees . |
| 2 | For instance , only 18 per cent of retailers , 22 per cent of caterers and 60 per cent of food manufacturers were keeping food at temperatures recommended by the Department of Health . |
| 3 | The agreements struck after the stoppage of the previous year had left many loose ends which were causing trouble among stevedores , carters and lightermen . |
| 4 | A record number of parents were getting aid through scholarships and more than 100 were being helped under the Government 's assisted places scheme . |
| 5 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
| 6 | The government responded by carrying out mass arrests of pro-democracy activists , and by the end of February violent confrontations were taking place between demonstrators and the security forces . |
| 7 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 8 | Similar developments were taking place in pharmaceuticals , aerospace , construction and automobiles , where it was becoming increasingly difficult for firms to maintain capability in all the technology options for the future . |
| 9 | Mr Healey claimed the Tories were putting paperwork before patients and cash before care . |
| 10 | They were making love without contraceptives . |
| 11 | The First Battle of Ypres fell into three distinct phases : the manoeuvres that brought the four Allied armies into position by about 20 October ; the German attacks on the River Yser and at La Bassee and Arras ; and the blows on the British salient that was forming east of Ypres . |
| 12 | Pineau informed de Gaulle about the strongly republican and socialist trend of resistance ideology and tried to persuade him to abandon his political reticence , which was causing concern among resisters . |
| 13 | who was causing suffering to others . |
| 14 | It 's a , it 's a training , it was training school for midwives . |
| 15 | This would help to protect the dollar at a time when the United States was experiencing balance of payments problems . |
| 16 | When the multi-storey hotel in which she was staying burst into flames trapping people on the upper floors , " Alligator " quickly summed up the situation . |
| 17 | At table that evening , the current Macleod seemed depressed ; he was having difficulty with relatives . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the things I missed was having access to things like phones and being able to make contacts . ’ |
| 19 | The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks . |
| 20 | Jack felt the need to treat these outbursts by Warnie with firmness as well as with gentleness , not least because his brother was giving voice to feelings which he shared quite passionately himself . |
| 21 | The nineteenth-century impact of Europe on the Middle East was giving rise to critics in the Islamic world . |
| 22 | Brian Brunswick , principal inspector in charge of the construction group for East Anglia , said the regional HSE was giving priority to falls because the figures in Suffolk , Norfolk and Essex mirrored the national average . |
| 23 | that Liberals are incapable of sustaining er the same argument in committee , er sub-committee , main committee and council and I have to say er that erm er placing a bet with Ernie was taking money off children . |
| 24 | On Friday nights , when Bernard thought she was supervising Karate for Girls at the Christabel Focus , she met Jed in a motel . |
| 25 | He had reached the top : he was standing on a rock , he was brandishing his chainsword , he was roaring defiance at enemies Defries could n't see . |
| 26 | Cakes , Easter gifts and toys contributed £75 to club funds , while the Traidcraft stall was making money for communities in the Third World . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | Craig McLachlan could be very easily dismissed as just another soap star turned muso , but Craig was playing guitar in bands long before he became an actor . |
| 29 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 30 | 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 . |