Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The independent schools inspectorate , HMI , in a report published yesterday on the ‘ rather tentative start ’ of AS levels , said a quarter of schools were using these for the wrong reasons , often as a safeguard for weaker Alevel candidates . |
| 2 | However , reports of severe damage and high casualty figures began to come in from communities situated closer to the ‘ quake 's epicentre , and they learned that the emergency services were bringing many of the most badly injured victims in to the capital . |
| 3 | Locke 's attitudes were replacing those of the catechism . |
| 4 | When we were er were living all on the road so we were expecting to be supplied by vans . |
| 5 | this year , at least were saving some of the trees then . |
| 6 | Inspection of the raw data reveals the primary reason : on the first repetition most subjects were ignoring most of the dynamic aspects of the decision problem , and their attempts at estimating the myopically optimal output were generally rather poor . |
| 7 | At the school parents were waiting most of the afternoon to find out when the children could be brought home . |
| 8 | South of the terminal moraine many powerful meltwater streams were moving some of the loose stones , sand and mud of the older sheets of boulder clay . |
| 9 | We were expecting most of the main opposition leaders to have been imprisoned , ’ Mann stated the obvious . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't hear what they were saying most of the time , ’ Omi said , as Erika ran her eye down the list of calls written in Omi 's shaky , old-fashioned script . |
| 11 | Because we were doing that at the beginning of the week , a scare , you could actually get |
| 12 | moving off the shelves and into the shop and , what we would do was erm deli people now do er , stock an order by computer and , and people like Sainsburys were doing that in the seventies , you know , and they would actually work over er work on erm data erm , from their computer and order er erm you know , okay , they 'd be an event at the weekend or something and they 'd , they 'd of , increase it or something , but they would technically work out exactly what the throughput of certain items were . |
| 13 | Top cosmetic company boss Angela Boxer protested : ‘ I do n't understand why they were doing this to the poor girl . |
| 14 | The railways railwaymen were demanding more , because they felt quite rightly that they were giving more to the railways . |
| 15 | But then he said a neighbour who had a dress , just wearing a dressing gown and he was married with three kids which is next door heard what going , been going on and he they were chasing , were chasing all through the common . |
| 16 | As it happened both Washington and Beijing were learning some of the skills of crisis management ( as well as " brinkmanship " ) , although a biographer of Eisenhower writes that the United States " came closer to using atomic weapons " in this crisis than at any other time in his presidency . |
| 17 | Er , it was one of one of the channels yes talking to these stars you know and they were relating their training and also they were showing some of the best some of the best shots of them in action in films . |
| 18 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 19 | They were discussing some of the howlers from 1066 and All That . ’ |
| 20 | As I was typing this on the computer ( my VDU is a television set ) , the screen went odd with flashing lines and all the words missing . |
| 21 | The teacher , Mr Phillips , was helping some of the older children at the back of the schoolroom . |
| 22 | By now I was eating some of the bread from Reggane . |
| 23 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 24 | But the programme was keeping most of the ‘ striptease ’ that forms the title sequence . |
| 25 | By now I 'm mostly tired , I was driving most of the night . |
| 26 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 27 | He was remembering some of the talk during training . |
| 28 | I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me . |
| 29 | McNealy 's henchman , Ed Zander , president of SunSoft , the Sun unit most jeopardised by the Novell/USL takeover , was acting more of the good cop last week when Unigram spoke with him . |
| 30 | In registering those concerns it was paying some of the penalties of the pioneer , anxious to ensure adequate monitoring of both traditional and novel courses — single subject and multidisciplinary , full-time , part-time and mixed mode , organized by year or in modules . |