Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subjection of seamen to Marine Boards in the north-east , where crimping was less in evidence than in London or Liverpool , was to treat them like " a parcel of Mexican slaves " . |
| 2 | A unique talent , honed and polished in the Lenin Institute , where brainwashing was a fine art . |
| 3 | The author was once involved in the takeover of a small company where costing was undertaken manually in a large ledger . |
| 4 | The proportion of students satisfactorily completing or proceeding was highest for those studying vocation subjects ( mainly social work 81.6% ) and social studies ( 80.6% ) . |
| 5 | cars ) in London Road , Mitcham , when they met on temporary track where relaying was in progress . |
| 6 | There was little difference in the intensity of staining of hepatocytes compared with biliary cells with anti-H antibody except in the PSC group where staining was most intense in the hepatocytes . |
| 7 | This pleased his Peripatetic opponents who asserted with Aristotle that sinking or floating was merely a matter of shape . |
| 8 | Complete silence was expected nightly while he took stock of the world : ‘ after supper , the paper was unfolded and the old man began reading the four pages ; woe betide if any noise or talking was indulged in by the family until the task was completed . ’ |
| 9 | In Nicaragua , many cotton farmers applied over 30 sprays a season , while in Central Africa , where scouting was introduced in the 1960s , most farmers apply fewer than 12 sprays . |
| 10 | Although caddying was in decline after 1950 ( the year trolleys are first recorded on the course ) , the Club considered engaging a new caddie master after his retirement , but it seems did not do so . |
| 11 | Although leveraging was a stated principle of local government investment policy , no particular relationship could be established between government ‘ seed funding ’ and private investment . |
| 12 | The second raid was a diversion for now that raiding was becoming more organised , full use could be made of feints and diversions to distract defenders from intended targets , and in a wider strategy the whole policy of raiding would involve a major distraction of the enemy towards an invasion of Norway , not France . |
| 13 | Although fingerprinting was not officially adopted in India until 1897 it was Herschel who , when a magistrate in Hooghly in 1877–8 , instituted the first known system . |
| 14 | In Margaret Thatcher 's day , most people thought that complaining was a waste of time ; but a ‘ listening ’ Government must expect to be shouted at , loud and long . |
| 15 | He had always felt that tailoring was a job more suited to women than to men . |
| 16 | She decided that fingering was doing little for her , except making her more and more randy . |
| 17 | Perhaps Grimm devoutly wished that joking was possible in the circumstances ; and would do his best to make it so . |
| 18 | could obtain a copy although embalming was only a part of the NVQ . |
| 19 | Midnight 's arm was like a bar of iron and all her kicking and struggling was useless . |
| 20 | Except that it 's more likely the man , because , you know , the child talked about him dying , but in a funny way , as if dying was another name for something else . |
| 21 | Alto is Mex for a bald-top hill and Loving was an old trail boss who first named it . ’ |
| 22 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 23 | If searching was done with just the basic actions , then R1.1 would only gain its first bit of credit after the fifth search , and then it would gain a mere 1/64th. of a point of credit . |
| 24 | If acting was good enough for Dylan Thomas , who was probably his lifetime 's hero , if it was the world of words of David Jones and the wish of dear old Phil — then all in all he might as well give it a try . |
| 25 | When they were loaded they were very low and you kept hearing the bombs drop and wondering was it your turn next . |
| 26 | To their creaking and grumbling was added a new note , comparable to music . |
| 27 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 28 | If labouring was to be perceived as a ‘ moral ’ activity , then young workers had to be persuaded to see ‘ meaning ’ in wage-earning . |
| 29 | Although my own options were fairly limited — and moving was not one of them — satisfactory alternatives do thankfully exist . |
| 30 | The West End/East End distinction in trades like shoe making and tailoring was well established by the end of the eighteenth century . |