Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broad justifications for petitioning were as familiar to both politicians and abolitionists as the sectional interest justifications of the petitions on economic and commercial issues in the 1780s which Drescher stresses because of their contrast with the humanitarian and general interest grounds of the anti-slave trade petitions of 1788 . |
| 2 | The benefits of targeting were seen , for example , in St Helens where the party gained four seats compared with 1986 and managed to keep its share at the level experienced in the days of the Alliance . |
| 3 | This show and a number of other CBC programmes which I had the pleasure of producing were relayed to the Canadian forces overseas by the BBC from London throughout the war . |
| 4 | The amount of , intensity and direction of pushing were all wrong with the epidural . |
| 5 | She had thought she loved him , and that he loved her , but now she wondered whether the only people they were capable of loving were themselves . |
| 6 | This sounds like an idle life I know , but these long hours of staring were no more idle than Boy 's long journeys around the city on foot had been aimless . |
| 7 | Peter Hall was said to have left the Dundee-based firm ‘ entirely voluntarily ’ and a company spokesman said his reasons for going were ‘ private ’ . |
| 8 | We were on about going were n't we ? |
| 9 | Last summer , the crew 's appetites for racing were whetted by smaller one-design racing when 16 Sigma 33s were chartered from Britannia Sailing in Southampton . |
| 10 | Things like skipping were extremely difficult for him to do , playing football , running , all of those are very difficult . |
| 11 | Top for romping were those serving in the army — with three-quarters admitting sex was widespread . |
| 12 | Top for romping were those serving in the army — with three-quarters admitting sex was widespread . |
| 13 | Negotiations with the company produced some useful results , though we were disappointed that contaminated waste products produced during drilling were dumped over board . |
| 14 | It was important that the underwear was intended to be worn as supplied and no instructions to wash before using were given . |
| 15 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 16 | It was the year of the first World Championships , and many of the big names in sprinting were biding their time . |
| 17 | Sir Patrick Wright ( Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ) , who had the honour of being received by Their Royal Highnesses , was present and the Gentlemen of the Household in Waiting were in attendance . |
| 18 | Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million . |
| 19 | If the only alternatives in knowing were the Scylla and Charybdis of pure objectivism or total scepticism , our choice would be a sorry one . |
| 20 | Write-downs in housebuilding were £40 million and Heron estimates the value of its land bank is 60 per cent below its peak . |
| 21 | The number of ulcers , their site and shape , and any associated duodenitis , erosions , or complicating features such as scarring were noted . |
| 22 | What he most looked forward to seeing were others of his kind with whom he could fly and from whom he would learn things . |
| 23 | Its thoughts on squatting were published in a paper earlier this year : it was in favour of making squatting a criminal offence . |
| 24 | Others were given warm water for soup , and on complaining were harshly told to work harder . |
| 25 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 26 | The lack of developed commercial institutions at this time meant that businesses such as barging were inevitably family-based . |
| 27 | The men made responsible for victualling were all active in and around Southampton . |
| 28 | The men made responsible for victualling were all active in and around Southampton . |
| 29 | Celia 's motives for volunteering were not entirely altruistic . |
| 30 | In times of unemployment and distress flax and hemp for spinning were distributed to the villagers . |