Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , I could n't remember how many breaks for rain there were or in which session I scored my hundred . |
| 2 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 3 | She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance . |
| 4 | The most notable consequences of the new Soviet initiative were that in 1975 Mexico signed an agreement with Comecon , and trade with both Argentina and Brazil reached a peak in 1981 when both countries refused to take part in the grain embargo introduced by Resident Carter as one of his sanctions against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . |
| 5 | The effects of this move were that in 1990 Hungary 's trade with the European Communities ( EC ) was expected to exceed that with Hungary 's COMECON partners for the first time . |
| 6 | Briefly , the facts in Vestey were that in 1942 the heads of two Vestey families conveyed certain properties to non-resident trustees to be held on discretionary trust for the benefit of the settlors ' descendants . |
| 7 | were that in , in the borough there 's lots of like fallen land , like , you know , Esher Common and things like that , |
| 8 | Kids , that 's all they were and in need of a bit of looking-after . |
| 9 | It might seem odd to talk about entry halls as a postscript as it were but in practical terms most people put decorating their living rooms first . |
| 10 | In the first and third corridor coaches , the lighting arrangements were as in standard coaches , but with the added feature that in each compartment bell pushes were provided . |
| 11 | Average daily room occupancies were as in Table 4.1 . |
| 12 | ( Those attending the Luxembourg summit were as in December 1990 . ) |
| 13 | The phrasing of the questions and the scales used were as in Study 1 . |
| 14 | The only proviso , of course , was that in keeping with the Olympic charter , there would be no appearance money or prize money . ’ |
| 15 | What she had not known was that in leaving home she would have to forfeit her four children . |
| 16 | The clearest message from Mr Walesa 's visit , however , was that in Eastern Europe now nothing is particularly clear politically or socially . |
| 17 | The fundamental difference between this new style and the old , was that in order to achieve it you needed the assistance of an architect . |
| 18 | The result was that in these cases the separation between legal and equitable ownership ceased . |
| 19 | A sensible policy on exemptions and rebates would reduce the possible savings and my guess was that in the end you would achieve surprisingly little in public savings . |
| 20 | ‘ The reason was that in re-structuring the press office , party chiefs had simply forgotten to allocate any special responsibility for Northern Ireland to any of its press officers . |
| 21 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 22 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 23 | The only trouble was that in the course of compiling the second inventory the missing artworks were found in a cupboard in one of the museum 's corridors . |
| 24 | An important perception was that in villages with fewer than 500 inhabitants interest in adult education had to be generated within the whole community with the intention of creating a social movement , rather than in appeals to sectional interests in such small communities . |
| 25 | The upshot of all this was that in 1959 the State of Tennessee ruled to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School . |
| 26 | The result was that in spite of some misgivings about the script and the incessantly repetitive dialogue about them doing their own thing , reviewers spoke glowingly of ‘ an actor named Jack Nicholson … is magnificent ’ and ‘ he gave a brilliantly witty performance ’ . |
| 27 | The simple truth was that in any case , few such poor families would have had cash that they could have regularly given away . |
| 28 | The significant difference was that in rural areas Fatah tended to rule alone , whereas in the camps and towns , the radicals posed a strong challenge . |
| 29 | Holland 's interpretation was that in the second phase of training an association was formed between the illness produced by the injection and a CS-evoked representation of the food that preceded it . |
| 30 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |