Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first sign that something was happening came when the interminable drumming from the countryside began to break up into two distinct and separate cadences , one deep and threatening , the other a nerve-jangling collection of notes that seemed to have no coherent structure , but somehow managed to sound rhythmic . |
| 2 | It was revealing to note that the single most commonly voiced response to being asked how the library would like to develop its overall programme , was in terms of training officers , or more training officers ’ time , mentioned by libraries of all sizes and types : |
| 3 | What did they think was going to happen after the last British troops evacuated the Canal Zone on 13 June 1956 ? |
| 4 | And lay off were the tunnel was going to go and the road up to the hill and lay off the power station and |
| 5 | James Prior said unemployment levels were intolerable and Norman Tebbit said that he was going to prove that the problem was soluble . |
| 6 | That ford was going to make but a difficult crossing . |
| 7 | The family 's solicitor , Peter Anderson , said he was waiting to hear if the MoD would deal with the matter , but added that the family may pursue a civil claim . |
| 8 | Darwin was beginning to realise that the naturalists at the Zoological Society might need more information than he had provided in his notes . |
| 9 | The flowers were tight budded but one was beginning to open and a transitory evocation of summer came to her , bringing with it an old anxiety . |
| 10 | I was beginning to wonder if the place actually existed . ’ |
| 11 | Now he was beginning to wonder if the colour had been natural . |
| 12 | I was beginning to fear that the preamble to the hon. Gentleman 's speech was part of the delaying tactic that he denounces . |
| 13 | Two days dead , the body was beginning to putrefy and the stench made both Benjamin and myself gag . |
| 14 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 15 | It now appears that Bevin was beginning to doubt if the anti-communist regime in Greece could prevail in the civil war with the communists . |
| 16 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |
| 17 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 18 | Pete was beginning to think that the party had taken on an unpleasant edge . |
| 19 | One of the Annamese cai yelled a frantic warning , and Duclos was starting to turn when the sharpened edge of the heavy blade split his helmet . |
| 20 | As early as the autumn of 1953 the US National Security Council was coming to accept that the situation in Eastern Europe was unlikely to change in the foreseeable future . |
| 21 | Nevertheless I share the doubts of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. whether Lord Scarman was intending to mean that the parents of a ‘ Gillick competent ’ child had no right at all to consent to medical treatment of the child as opposed to no exclusive right to such consent . |
| 22 | It was startling to discover that a race which was identifiably mutant had laws for the suppression of mutations , and he guessed that the origin of cause and principle alike lay somewhere in the lost time of the isolation of Tarvaras from the Empire . |
| 23 | Maria had finished unpacking and was preparing to shower when the doorbell summoned her . |
| 24 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |
| 25 | What I was trying to say that the for the fire fighter decision about was very boo 'd upon to the professional advice of our Chief Fire Officers and they have a good for eighteen months of how we are doing this fire fighting in Hertfordshire . |
| 26 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |