Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now faces appeared in his mind , with features that were grotesque in their exaggeration of innocence and evil . |
| 2 | Their hands were encased in closefitting gloves and their heads were grotesque in respirators with ribbed breathing tubes and large , goggling eye-pieces . |
| 3 | At that time they were unobtainable in Greece , and I had never used them before . |
| 4 | Among the less experienced , youngsters like Serguei Molchanov , a prop , and the Georgian full-back Nougzar Dsagnidze were outstanding in the 1988 Students ' World Cup . |
| 5 | Murty Killilea and Padraig Kelly were outstanding in defence , with Joe McGrath proving his worth in attack . |
| 6 | Stockton scored an opportunist try through Paul Beattie , while Mark Graham and Graeme Docherty were outstanding in a much-improved performance . |
| 7 | Stockton scored an opportunist try through Paul Beattie , while Mark Graham and Graeme Docherty were outstanding in a much-improved performance . |
| 8 | Bodies with an ostensibly overseeing role , like the People 's Control Commissions , were half-hearted in operation and often effectively controlled by the people they were supposed to be investigating . |
| 9 | Distinguished foreigners were appointed Corresponding Members ; there were fifty-five in 1854 . |
| 10 | An increase in registrations for courses such as Presentation Skills , which were under-subscribed in the Autumn , was encouraging and suggested that staff were becoming more aware of the programme and that its reputation was growing . |
| 11 | Ireland 's NCB and the third Finnish challenger , UBF , were due in last night . |
| 12 | Wyspianski and his family were due in Paris the next week . |
| 13 | Comments on the draft report were due in to the Cadbury Committee by 31 July , and committee secretary Nigel Peace confirms that the postbag is a large one . |
| 14 | Travelling on through the night the Clintons were due in Forth Worth , Texas , after midnight before flying to Albuquerque , New Mexico , early this morning . |
| 15 | President Chadli Benjedid , at a March 13 press conference , said that there was no question of dissolving parliament at present , but that this could be considered if a consensus were to emerge on the matter ; legislative elections were due in 1992 but could be brought forward if necessary , and Chadli accepted the possibility of the ruling National Liberation Front ( Front de libération nationale — FLN ) finding itself in a minority after such elections . |
| 16 | Elections to the TRNC parliament were due in May . |
| 17 | These successes for the SPD and the Greens were due in large measure to declining public confidence in Kohl 's leadership , especially after tax increases to meet the costs of unification became inevitable despite election promises by Kohl that they would not be necessary [ see pp. 37904 ; 38297 ; 38109 ] . |
| 18 | This was particularly true in relation to many of the primaries immediately following the New Hampshire contest , which were due in Southern states where Duke 's support was expected to be strongest . |
| 19 | Their role at that time was to discount bills for holders requiring immediate cash for payments which were due in perhaps two or three months . |
| 20 | Preliminary work had been completed and construction tenders were due in at the end of February , said Coun. Mrs Scott . |
| 21 | Health minister Virginia Bottomley and Baroness Blatch were due in the North-East today . |
| 22 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 23 | Looking at foreign experience , as the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry had also done , it was argued that the trade unions were weak in countries with family allowances and strong in countries without them . |
| 24 | ‘ Llandovery have great pace behind the scrum and Narberth were solid in all respects . |
| 25 | ‘ We spread the ball , supported players quickly and were solid in the scrummage . |
| 26 | Umpire Woodward was also standing during delays most thought were unnecessary in the Napier Test between New Zealand and India in 1990 , and at last year 's Wellington v Sri Lankans match ( ‘ We will not tolerate a repeat , ’ said national chairman Peter McDermott and executive director Graham Dowling at that stage ) . |
| 27 | The view that the Iraqi government was willing to resume negotiations on UN-supervised oil sales ( reported in September — see p. 39115 ) was supported by China 's permanent representative at the UN Li Daoyu who , referring to the resolution , was quoted on Oct. 3 as saying that such " extraordinary measures " were unnecessary in the light of Iraq 's readiness to re-open negotiations . |
| 28 | Derek Jameson notably failed to prove that the writers of the BBC satirical programme " Week Ending " were dishonest in portraying him as stupid and lubricious : his record as editor of down-market newspapers allowed them to describe his editorial policy as being " all the nudes fit to print and all the news printed to fit . " |
| 29 | His six county surveys ( Shropshire 1752 , Middlesex 1754 , Armagh 1760 , Dublin 1760 , Berkshire 1761 , Surrey 1768 : projected surveys of Kent , Oxfordshire , and Buckinghamshire came to nothing ) were innovative in their portrayal of land use and vegetation . |
| 30 | However , it also showed that only 10% of even our better companies were innovative in all areas of business . |