Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of those leaving the cities have had to buy their way out if they wanted to live in environmentally more-attractive areas that , particularly in the south of England and — to some extent — increasingly elsewhere , were proving to be the most economically active . |
| 2 | The support operations in the gilt-edged market were proving to be an awkward commitment for the authorities . |
| 3 | It is to these factors , rather than to artillery itself , that we should turn if we wish to see which arms were proving to be of the greatest significance in the war . |
| 4 | The increase in the dividend and presumably the optimistic implication about the bank 's future earning ability or the possibility that past investment policies were proving to be injudicious ? |
| 5 | But the first public glimpses of the charter were proving to be a disappointment . |
| 6 | It is indeed difficult to understand how the idea gained circulation that the Danes were itching to be allowed to change their minds . |
| 7 | The morning was taken up with sales presentations , but all were itching to be allowed out on the water . |
| 8 | Energy applications for muon catalysed fusion , Jones ' main research line up to that time , were appearing to be very remote and in August 1988 Jones decided to mount a vigorous effort to pursue the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 9 | I thought they were pretending to be offended — but people were honestly upset by it and I was flabbergasted . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 11 | In part , this was because of the spread of liberal ideas and institutions since 1815 ; governments were tending to be less the oppressors of the governed than identified with them , though this process had still far to go in 1880 . |
| 12 | With the rise of the fascist menace , the bourgeois educational system was no longer perceived as the site of idealistic mystification , but rather as the site of a political struggle ; a political struggle in which the vast majority of the teaching profession , committed to the idea of cultural enlightenment , were refusing to be silenced , gagged by a bourgeois state progressively more dominated by fascist ideas at a time of deepening political crisis . |
| 13 | By now , other men with microphones were moving among the audience , and so many people were shouting to be heard that George could no longer identify individual speakers as words overleaped one another and blended together into a great cry of confused and frightened protest . |
| 14 | Many parents wanted to send their children to grammar schools , but these were ceasing to be available . |
| 15 | These careful excavations were followed up by archaeologists , who were ceasing to be treasure-hunters , just as geologists had ceased to be fossil-hunters ; both were now concerned with dating and provenance , and the reconstruction of past epochs . |
| 16 | They were ceasing to be the almost monastic institutions of the past . |
| 17 | I shaved in cold water and walked out of the gate and across the parade ground to where a queue of people were waiting to be served at the kitchen . |
| 18 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 19 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 20 | Others living at the house said they were waiting to be reunited with Marita and her Mr Loren to find out exactly what happened . |
| 21 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 22 | She had evidently decided that things were going to be all right . |
| 23 | This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time . |
| 24 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 25 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 26 | After eight months the Chinese said we were going to be tried , but one month before the trial we were released . |
| 27 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 28 | The appointment of Mr Stürmer , a friend of Chancellor Kohl and a man often seen on television , made some of the staff fear they were going to be ‘ politicised ’ . |
| 29 | But in the weeks before they left they worked extremely hard at their fitness , were coached by Geoff Boycott to improve their batting technique , and insisted to the press that people back home in England were going to be pleasantly surprised . |
| 30 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |