Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [ex0] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no point denying that there was a ‘ free fight ’ in Bean Street between the Powers ' and Jenkins ' families , with men rolling on the ground . |
| 2 | The other ( modern ) extreme , that of denying that there was such a thing as Carthaginian imperialism , is equally unsatisfying : from Plato onwards , Greeks spoke of Carthaginian eparcheia , a compound of arche = rule or empire , in Sicily ; and ( he Carthaginians imposed tribute , phoros , on Greek cities which fell into their power ( e.g. Diod. xiii.59 : Selinus ) . |
| 3 | There was also a bit about Lesley Silver denying that there was a link between Battys sale and a 2.5M offer to buy back Elland Road from the council . |
| 4 | Momoh visited China on June 6-11 , 1990 , reaffirming that there was no intention to establish diplomatic links with Taiwan . |
| 5 | Rebecca ( or ‘ Becky ’ as everyone calls her ) picked up the plane and , noticing that there was writing on it , slowly unfolded it . |
| 6 | Scott wandered down the short set of steps to Carol 's door , noticing that there was a pint of milk on the step . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll deal with that , ’ said Anthony , noticing that there were tears in Comfort 's big grey eyes , ‘ but I want you to stay here with her . |
| 8 | In Ireland , Diarmaid , King of Dublin , made two attacks on Meath along with the King of Ossory , and , noticing that there were few Orkney ships these days in the water and no Orkney attempts at interference , decided it was time to look for some easy weapons and cattle and money , and maybe even a harbour or two . |
| 9 | And the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Albemarle Street was that day announcing that there were to be eight lectures given by Mr. Faraday on Static or Franklinic Electricity , to commence on 21 April . |
| 10 | A self-appointed leader , he made the rules without being explicit about them or even explaining that there were rules . |
| 11 | At the same time Gascoigne 's military adviser , Brigadier A. K. Ferguson , submitted a report revealing that there was divergence between different sections of GHQ as to the treatment of Japan . |
| 12 | A woman barred her way because a service was ending and there was an aggressive demand for a donation on entrance instead of , in the British tradition , a polite request before leaving . |
| 13 | Du Guesclin was reorganising the French armies , our old king was doddering and there was no need for English swords in France , so we sailed for Outremer . |
| 14 | Mrs Beckett , MP for Derby South , added : ‘ I was just surprised by what was happening and there was a bit of a scuffle . |
| 15 | Do n't know , it does n't seem to be doing anything and what the was that during the week when was in residence one night the dogs barked and he went out to see what was happening and there was a young man who worked in it this was in the pitch dark , was up there taking some of his stuff away . |
| 16 | Well he , he possibly may have felt that he could erm very quickly stir things up but there we it was n't quite to the extent that this was happening but there was the , the chance it would . |
| 17 | The was hot water on demand for washing and , believe it or not , a sauna bath available at a moment 's notice , run by a scientist from Estonia who was spending his holidays working at camp and doing a bit of climbing when there was no-one wanting a little birch-twig flagellation . |
| 18 | She wanted her daughter to be a marchioness , maintaining that there was nothing wrong with Virginia which marriage would n't cure . |
| 19 | In the third edition of his The Principles of Political Economy ( 1821 ) Ricardo added a chapter on machinery , conceding that Barton ‘ had taken a correct view of some of the effects of an increasing amount of fixed capital on the condition of the labouring classes ’ , but maintaining that there was a , perhaps imperfect , positive relationship between increases in capital and the demand for labour . |
| 20 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 21 | The judgment followed a decision by the Supreme Court in May 1989 [ see pp. 36650-51 ] , to return the case for reconsideration by a lower court , after ruling that an employer accused of discriminatory promotion practice could escape liability only by proving that there were other , legitimate , reasons for denying promotion . |
| 22 | In 1927 ( when Eliot mentioned ‘ the Mongol in our midst ’ ) he told Bonamy Dobrée that he was preparing a small book , The Bolovian in Our Midst , proving that there was Bolovian blood in some of the leading figures of the day . |
| 23 | The wild pitch sound was born , Mr Pierre proving that there was more mileage to be had in ‘ Essential Acapella Vol 1 ’ than most people imagined . |
| 24 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 25 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 26 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 27 | But there was no indication that Mr Beregovoy , speaking at a business seminar , was suggesting that there were any negotiations for full British EMS membership . |
| 28 | Thorns also elaborated a socio-temporal model of village communities , suggesting that there were three types of villages : those that have established structure ( long-standing and with an accepted pattern of authority ) ; those that are transitional , in which the higher-status group has lost its authority ; and those that have been re-established , in which new leaders , mainly in-migrants , have filled the roles of authority . |
| 29 | Other chroniclers , such as Henry Knighton at Leicester , describe the extent of the plague locally , suggesting that there were 700 deaths in one parish and 380 in another , and some even appear to have doubted if man 's life on earth was going to continue ( 53 , p.169 ) . |
| 30 | At ground-floor level she discovered a games-room , a large slate-bed billiard table taking up much of the space , and a selection of tennis racquets and other games equipment suggesting that there were the courts and space for all these things . |