Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was so shocking about Famous But Not For Singing was the sheer amount of material . |
| 2 | Among their reasons for submitting was a fear that outlawry would lead to the destruction of the church ; in February the king was already threatening to make the outlawry permanent , and in March even the archbishop had his horses seized by royal officers while he was en route from Maidstone to London . |
| 3 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 4 | What he could do , if Ritschl thought it a plan worth pursuing was put together a book of miscellaneous bits and pieces-part literary history , part " new ideas and views " ( neue Ansichten und Aussichten ) of an as yet unspecified nature , part textual criticism . |
| 5 | The master questioned the boy and the reason he gave for absconding was that the schoolmaster had ‘ meddled with him ’ . |
| 6 | Surveys of parking habits by the deparment 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory carried out before and after wheelclamping was extended to the areas of St John 's Wood and Pimlico in London in spring 1987 , show that parking on yellow lines declined by 31 and 17 per cent respectively . |
| 7 | The changes in parking behaviour in St John 's Wood are similar to those observed in the period after wheelclamping was introduced in central London in 1982 . |
| 8 | Lastly , one other strange bit of feedback we had after attending was that our presence was seen to indicate our ‘ seriousness ’ as a production company — some sort of trial by ordeal . |
| 9 | A bottle of this smelly purple mixture always stood on the shelf above the sink in the bathroom alongside all the toothbrushes , and a very vigorous scalp massage with OIL OF VIOLETS took place daily after shaving was completed . |
| 10 | An increasing proportion of land developed after registering was subject to Derelict Land Grant , of which £25 million was , by 1988–9 , available specifically to the inner cities . |
| 11 | Among the former the number of fledglings produced per pair on average was 1.1 and the average number of offspring still alive after three months after fledging was 0.5 ( n = 47 ) . |
| 12 | Unionists also resisted Lloyd Georges attempt to go on running things as in wartime , insisting that the war cabinet should be wound up after peacemaking was completed . |
| 13 | By 1792 the general , public character of antislavery meetings for petitioning was evident even though , according to Clarkson , efforts were made to prevent public meetings in some places . |
| 14 | His punishment for escaping was light . |
| 15 | Otherwise , any tendency towards moralizing was overshadowed by the exciting , humorous , tragic and horrifically violent elements . |
| 16 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 17 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 19 | It was something that you had to swallow whole , like a stone of uncomfortable size , and the act of swallowing was called Faith . |
| 20 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 21 | ‘ Part of the purpose of going was to remind the people in the Vatican how much we value and treasure ecumenical relationships in Great Britain . |
| 22 | The third element of European policy that the Leader of the Opposition accused us of ignoring was regional policy . |
| 23 | Their inner understanding of belonging was mirrored in external images of withdrawal . |
| 24 | Satisfactory control of bleeding was achieved in all cases except one individual who underwent successful emergency surgery for uncontrollable haemorrhage . |
| 25 | The cause of bleeding was established by endoscopy within 12 hours of admission . |
| 26 | In the heater probe group the incidence of bleeding was lowered to 14% ( pooled rate difference ( 95% CI ) =-0.23 ( 0.08 ) ) and the typical odds ratio of uncontrolled haemorrhage was 0.29 ( 95% CI=0.19 to 0.45 ) favouring the heater probe . |
| 27 | Our method of proceeding was as follows . |
| 28 | When , in 1979 , Sir Nicholas Henderson was posted to Washington and within two weeks of moving was told that the new Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , was to visit , Mary Henderson wasted no time in asking Laura if she could supply certain fabrics at cost price with immediate delivery ; Laura naturally obliged . |
| 29 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 30 | Even if the act of punishing was cheap , and of being punished expensive , this would still not be sufficient to guarantee stability , because of the problem of the ‘ free rider ’ . |