Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second . |
| 2 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |
| 3 | The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate . |
| 4 | Conditions were so harrowing that only two of them survived . |
| 5 | Erm that 's another thing that would may have persuaded me not to talk you into er self employed except you were already experiencing that I guess were you in timeshare ? |
| 6 | Hopeless romantics , Sox fans come back each Spring for more , but by the time of this Orioles game last year were already conceding that the 1991 team was not one on which to pin their perennial dreams . |
| 7 | Some men were already saying that Artai 's election was ill-starred . |
| 8 | This broadcast was immediately preceded by a report where predictions were already showing that the Conservatives were very likely to gain an overall majority . |
| 9 | These people were already showing that they were trying to make the best and rebuild their lives . " |
| 10 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 11 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 12 | Sohail and Ramiz made 16 untroubled , and that evening Akram expressed fresh concern that some were still complaining that he and Waqar must be ‘ doctoring ’ the ball . |
| 13 | In the last reports they were able to compile , in April 1940 , Sopade observers were still noting that ‘ many prefer to keep Hitler than to envisage what could come after a defeat ’ , that fear of chaos and revolution still predominated among the bourgeoisie , but that ‘ there is no doubt that up to now the majority of the people is still convinced of Germany 's victory ’ . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the twentieth century , Poor Law administrators were still noting that older women seemed more able than older men to survive without any apparent source of income , because of the domestic services which they could perform ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 16 | They were also hinting that there 's more moves to follow . |
| 17 | As many of their domestic loans were backed by property , the banks were also betting that Japan 's land bubble would not burst . |
| 18 | And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader . |
| 19 | And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader . |
| 20 | The Press were openly speculating that if his rival won , then the world championship would be wide open for the last two races on the calendar . |
| 21 | Then , economists were openly predicting that the recovery would be more in line with previous post-recessionary periods , but that optimistic bubble has now burst and most experts are admitting that the recovery will be painfully slow . |
| 22 | Rank Hovis were now realising that the cup could be going out of their cabinet and straight into Rentokil 's , they decided to keep us playing and on came the warehouse lads , and Rentokil promptly achieved a 6-O victory . |
| 23 | They had ceased operations in February 1992 on the basis of government 's pledges to provide land and credits , and were now demanding that these pledges be honoured . |
| 24 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 25 | Instead , they were now proposing that the poem should appear , ‘ with some pieces of William 's ’ , in a volume of its own . |
| 26 | The Australian Unwins , sitting with the rival owners of Flokati , were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise , good hay was best . |
| 27 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 28 | The Chinese whispers the next day were even claiming that Paul Smith stormed out of the awards in disgust . |
| 29 | A lot of people , including many members of the press , thought that Allan was going to win , were almost praying that he was going to win . |
| 30 | It was as if he were truculently stating that he had gone as far towards her as he was prepared to go . |