Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , more than three out of five older women were living in or on the margins of poverty . |
| 2 | Such practices were operating in or near the communities affected by the closures , which must be approved by the Scottish Office . |
| 3 | But the survey showed that it was difficult to judge whether standards of spelling were going up or down . |
| 4 | no I did n't know whether we were going out or not |
| 5 | The pavement was still below my feet , which were moving more or less as they were supposed to . |
| 6 | Auxilliary nurse at BUPA Murrayfield Hospital Michael Douglas told the jury at Liverpool Crown Court : ‘ If he was talking about his marriage he would say they were breaking up or that she was leaving him . |
| 7 | Harold and the girl were dancing ahead or , rather , pursuing each other at a ritual pace round and round a flat white sacrificial stone . |
| 8 | Small cranes were dragging out or depositing bales , barrels , chests and huge leather bags . |
| 9 | But when you are watching it and these bones are parting , you 'll hear all the trees and all the noises that you can imagine , even as if buildings were falling down or a traction engine is running over you . |
| 10 | That they were putting on or was it the actual make up or ? |
| 11 | But if you were locking up or cautioning , that was different — but you had to put it in your book that you had cautioned her . |
| 12 | Performing a two day census of all new attendances across all regions and in various accident and emergency departments that use nurse practitioners ( whether or not they were functioning fully or at all on those days ) provided an accurate estimate of the volume and nature of clinical activity undertaken by nurse practitioners relative to that undertaken by doctors . |
| 13 | The police are now examining at total of thirty nine video tapes , from in-store security systems , and from members of the public who were filming in or near Milton Keynes shopping centre last week . |
| 14 | During the 70s , I was using more or less steady throughout . |
| 15 | By the end of the week I was still having the occasional fake nightmare , I would suddenly go very quiet and shivery every now and again , but I was eating more or less normally and could answer most questions quite happily . |
| 16 | That throughout the material part of that period the computer was operating properly or , if not , that any respect in which it was not operating properly or was out of operation during that part of that period was not such as to affect the production of the document or the accuracy of its contents ; and , |
| 17 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 18 | A constable has a right to search for a weapon if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the suspect might present a danger to himself or others , for example because he was acting violently or was drunk or suicidal . |
| 19 | The short answer is that people 's motives for using media do not seem to have changed much from 1945 to 1990 — whether to combat loneliness , find out what was going on or just relax . |
| 20 | I was smashing everything up and setting about people , 'cause I did n't know what was going on or nothing . |
| 21 | The public did not , therefore , understand what was going on or why there was trouble ’ ( ibid.:13 ) . |
| 22 | you said you was going either or to both |
| 23 | Yeah I know , I do n't know whether she was going out or coming in but they got one there now and I think they th the one they got there now I do n't know whether the Corporation , that 's theirs or whether that 's put out to contract and I think that 's put out to contract now . |
| 24 | Prior to hemispherectomy , however , he was speaking more or less normally . |
| 25 | They had an argument on the bus and Paul , I think was starting the fighting , I think er , Lynsey was holding back or something and when I went to the hospital today there was this girl , right |
| 26 | They had an argument on the bus and Paul , I think was starting the fighting , I think er , Lynsey was holding back or something and when I went to the hospital today there was this girl , right |
| 27 | Saw one one lad was really really sort of well okay he was n't clever by any stretch of the imagination but he just , was just a you know a sort of no-hoper and he he riled one teacher up very very badly one day cos he did n't do his homework or he was pratting about or he was you know . |
| 28 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 29 | He did n't know whether to leave them here with all the other stuff that he was leaving behind or take them with him . |
| 30 | So , either the old man was thinking wishfully or there was a bastard , or the product of an unacknowledged marriage . ’ |