Example sentences of "[was/were] taking part " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as they knew , these 570 people were off to a temperance rally at Loughborough ; most of them were probably unaware that they were taking part in an historical journey — Thomas Cook 's first excursion in 1841 . |
| 2 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |
| 3 | He got a group of people to administer electric shocks to a group of victims in the belief that they were taking part in an experiment to study the effect of punishment on learning . |
| 4 | Further details were unavailable at press time , as X/Open staff worldwide were taking part in a brainstorming session , somewhere in the wilds of Devon in the UK . |
| 5 | The students were taking part in a debate contest organised by the Ghana edition of Step Magazine , which is a corporate member of WACC , as part of activities marking the launch of the magazine in that country . |
| 6 | They were not aware that they were taking part in a randomised comparison of two different information sheets as this would have invalidated the study , which received ethical approval from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital ethical committee . |
| 7 | So the first gig you attended was one that you were taking part in ? |
| 8 | And beside him , an elderly priest in a black soutane was also holding up a thumb and laughing as though he were taking part in a particularly outrageous joke . |
| 9 | Late in January news bulletins mentioned the Anzio landing in which they knew the Irish Guards were taking part and in February the dreaded news came that Joe had been wounded . |
| 10 | Blake Simms and his crew were taking part in the rally for very different reasons . |
| 11 | Do n't think you can barge in here harassing me like this , ’ she snapped , ‘ shooting questions at me as if you were taking part in a firing squad . ’ |
| 12 | Except , that is , the people who were taking part and the level of commitment required to win in 1980 as opposed to 1924 . |
| 13 | She had mastered Eddie 's cycle and came around the corner as though she were taking part in one of the bicycle races which had recently become such a popular spectator sport . |
| 14 | Men from Newlyn , Bideford , St Mawes , Salcombe , Mevagissey and Dartmouth as well as local boats were taking part in the protest . |
| 15 | On Dec. 18 most Moldavian deputies staged a walkout because representatives of the separatist Gagauz and Dnestr Russian communities were taking part in the Congress as guests ( on the previous day a rally against the treaty in Kishinev , Moldavia 's capital , had attracted up to 200,000 people ) . |
| 16 | They were taking part in a crucial first safety commissioning test when hundreds of tons of hot water were pumped through a section of the plant 's miles of piping … and it all passed with flying colours . |
| 17 | It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise . |
| 18 | Calder training manager , Bill Vaudrey , said : ‘ The team knew they were taking part in an exercise called ‘ Operation Picnic at Hanging rock ’ . |
| 19 | He and British Lions rugby star Jeremy Guscott were taking part in the fourth annual British Shark Angling Festival off Looe , Cornwall , yesterday . |
| 20 | The selected schools were taking part in the world 's biggest children 's election organised by the BBC in association with the Hansard Society . |
| 21 | The Committee Office at Westminster said that all members of the committee , which was due to return to Britain last night , were taking part in the visit . |
| 22 | Young Left-wingers threw eggs and stones at Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Richard von Weizsaecker , who were taking part in the Berlin rally . |
| 23 | Fast work : Hundreds of Merseysiders were taking part in a national day of fasting designed to raise money for Oxfam . |
| 24 | Did the children know that they were being studied , and did the teachers know that they were taking part in such an experiment ? |
| 25 | Did the pupils know that they were being studied , did the teachers know that they were being studied and did the teachers know that they were taking part in an educational experiment ? |
| 26 | Europe 's biggest joint semiconductor research programme , JESSI , booted ICL out of three of the five projects in which it was taking part . |
| 27 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 28 | One embarrassing experience involved Jan Leeming , the television personality , who was taking part in a film I was producing . |
| 29 | At the far end of the corridor , almost in front of the large window , at that moment filled with grey light and rain , my father 's figure could be seen frozen in a posture that suggested he was taking part in some ceremonial ritual . |
| 30 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |