Example sentences of "were in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they were in 1934 hatching plans for invading Russia but allowing one of their army chiefs — ‘ a typical monocled , duel-scarred , square-headed general of the High Command ’ — to reveal the lot to an RAF veteran over lunch at a plush Berlin restaurant . |
| 2 | Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull . |
| 3 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |
| 4 | To recap , the winners have been men who were in internal labour markets in the big-name companies and the enterprise group networks . |
| 5 | The first police dogs to come to Finland were in 1908 . |
| 6 | Big birds weigh more , but a smaller proportion of that weight is fat , ) Corroboration comes from the observation that males who had not formed pairs were in worse condition than those that had . |
| 7 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 8 | At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis . |
| 9 | Bituleanu/Toma were in 3rd spot , being followed by Bregeon/Goetschy on the final straight when the Romanians veered right , forcing the French right over to the edge of the course . |
| 10 | All seven of them at table together had shrunk the kitchen , and they were in noisy , exuberant enjoyment of boiled beef and carrots . |
| 11 | They varied between 20–60 hectares in size , were situated at an elevation of around 300m , and were in shallow stony soils . |
| 12 | In April 1973 Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese army , and soon all South Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia were in Communist hands . |
| 13 | By 1963 there were over 2 million members in the PKI while 12.5 million were in Communist mass organisations . |
| 14 | Of those councillors who were twin-tracking at the time of the Widdicombe Committee , 58 per cent were teachers or lecturers , 12 per cent were manual workers , 16 per cent were in professional jobs ( social workers , planners and so on and 14 per cent were administrators ( Widdicombe Research , Vol. iii:34 ) . |
| 15 | Have you got anything about children 's toys , cos they were in terrible short supply |
| 16 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 17 | What is puzzling , however , is that this increase occurred in spite of the fact , as Beenstock points out , that ‘ marginal tax rates were lower in 1968 than they were in 1956 . ’ |
| 18 | The arguments for extending fluoridation are not as overwhelming as they were in 1956 . |
| 19 | Sinn Fein were contesting the seat and a tricolour , the flag of the Irish Republic , was flown in the window of the Sinn Fein election office in Divis St. Although the Flags and Emblems Act made such displays illegal , the RUC had often ignored them if they were in nationalist areas . |
| 20 | Geeta Amin and I have described some of the effects of reception class in secondary schools as they were in 1974 ( Guardian 15 Aug. 1974 ) : |
| 21 | ‘ If we were in Catholic west Belfast instead of Protestant north Belfast we would be treated differently . ’ |
| 22 | Out of the cup , thrashed 5–0 by Aberdeen , trailing badly in the league , Hearts , who had started their season by securing Joe Jordan as manager , faced widespread press accusations that they too were in financial disarray . |
| 23 | The Beaverbrook papers were in financial trouble , and Trafalgar beat the competition to buy them , with its main interest being the asset value of the group 's properties . |
| 24 | The court heard all three men were in financial difficulties . |
| 25 | These aforementioned studies were in non-diabetic hypertensive subjects but raised the possibility that similar effects might occur in diabetics . |
| 26 | That is , they were more highly concentrated in the older staple industries which were in acute and widely recognized need of restructuring , the labour shortage was most acute in some of the highly skilled sectors of these very industries , and their loss would be acutely felt , at least in the short term . |
| 27 | Mr McNeill 's statements arose as he sought to counter allegations that a very high over-representation of children with English as a second language were in acute categories of special needs classes because the region had failed to judge their intelligence accurately . |
| 28 | And when the little bouncing balls came up onscreen , pointing out the subtitled lyrics for ‘ Fixin' To Die Rag ’ , the ciderheads were in seventh heaven . |
| 29 | Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 . |
| 30 | As late as 1926 90.9 per cent of all inhabitants in the guberniia were in rural locations , one of the highest percentages for European Russia . |