Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese were successfully entering into many of the most sensitive markets in the EC ( e.g. cars , consumer electronic equipment , computing equipment ) , and the NICs were becoming an increasing threat to many of the industries of the member states . |
| 2 | Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition . |
| 3 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 4 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 5 | These were not binding on all members of the ASC in the way that SSAPs were , nor did they require the approval of the councils of the six professional bodies . |
| 6 | Lithuanian and Armenian deputies were boycotting the Congress session , and Estonians and Latvians were not participating in some votes . |
| 7 | Those who were not participating in this type of research had to make do with walking in the oh so prolific Manchester rain , holding pillow-fighting competitions or otherwise bear the dreadful timetabled events . |
| 8 | Schools which were not thinking in such adventurous terms should easily be able to avoid ‘ a narrow and unproductive concentration ’ on the three core subjects of English , maths and science . |
| 9 | 1984 ) of 13135 children born in 1970 , found that one in ten five-year-olds were not living with both natural parents . |
| 10 | Britain has reacted angrily when it felt other European governments were not co-operating in these efforts . |
| 11 | We were not working to any specific set of criteria . ’ |
| 12 | If books were not selling in some shops , it was n't the fault of the publishers . ’ |
| 13 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 14 | I were just looking at this . |
| 15 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 16 | Yes and we took the whole thing down to the kitchen for the upstairs rooms were just going like this . |
| 17 | We were just talking about that |
| 18 | Neither Matthew nor the girl was aware that she had come into the room , and as Beth 's eyes went from the unique expression of wonder on the boy 's handsome face , to the girl 's slender form … the small budding breasts , and the young limbs that were already shaping into those of a young woman … a strange sense of revulsion shivered through her . |
| 19 | Cal and her mum were hardly speaking to each other . |
| 20 | They were always looking for some cowardly advantage . |
| 21 | They were always arguing with each other . |
| 22 | Her eyes were rapidly adjusting to such tones . |
| 23 | By now the two great flotillas — Jellicoe 's and Scheer 's — were rapidly closing with each other and the second major engagement of the action was about to open . |
| 24 | However , he added that investigations were still proceeding over another accident which happened 12 days before Mr Doncaster 's death . |
| 25 | Or perhaps they were still wandering in that long stretch of country which lay between New York and the State of Wisconsin ? |
| 26 | The employers were about to remove theirs by what its American champions were to call ‘ scientific management ’ , but in our period they were still groping for this solution . |
| 27 | The defendants displayed outside their Oxford Street shop a sign reading ‘ Closing Down Sale ’ and were still trading from that shop 18 months later . |
| 28 | The two children were positively screaming by this time and shouted to their grandmother . |
| 29 | In arguing their case the LNA were clearly drawing on those traditions of philanthropy which emphasized the central role of women in the reform of moral conditions . |
| 30 | These animals were also communicating with each other , but we were only able to catch the deep rumbles which are the upper harmonies of their conversation . |