Example sentences of "were in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 2 | Mr Govind said the finance minister had announced that 100% equity would be allowed on some developments if they utilised advanced technology and were in the country 's interest . |
| 3 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 4 | A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ . |
| 5 | They were in the foyer of a country hotel . |
| 6 | He was aware that the professor was deeply involved in the burgeoning poetry movement of Canada , chiefly in the form of ‘ the little books and magazines ’ which were in the van of the movement . |
| 7 | When the old woman and the boy were in the summerhouse they looked up and smiled and showed her what they were making . |
| 8 | We were in the kitchen together when Caroline said I should meet Colin . ’ |
| 9 | If an attempt is to be made it would be wise to approach those organisations with whom the dead person , or their spouse , had some link , eg. Royal British Legion , 48 Pall Mall , London , SW1Y 5JY , Tel. 071–930 8131 ; or the Soldiers , Sailors and Airmens Families Association , 19 Queen Elizabeth Street , London , SE1 2LP , Tel. 071–403 8783/071–962 9696 if they were in the services . |
| 10 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |
| 11 | ‘ They must have known that leases were in the pipeline but no one said anything to me . ’ |
| 12 | Brought in early last year , Max had been so badly kicked by a sadistic owner that most of his bodily organs were in the wrong places . |
| 13 | His book showed that new ideas were in the air , and senior academics began to drop passing references to Barthes or Derrida , not always accurately . |
| 14 | But I incline to think that our grandfathers and grandmothers were in the right of it , and that no one can claim to understand Wordsworth who has not been to Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 15 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
| 16 | Women with children were in the first buses . |
| 17 | The fatalities were in the London area and involved collapses . |
| 18 | At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players . |
| 19 | Remarkably , three of the top five gates were in the Second Division — at Halifax , Hull KR and Ryedale York , where 5,000 watched the inaugural game at the club 's swish new stadium in the suburbs . |
| 20 | Mr Jumblatt 's forces , together with the Syrians , were in the front line of the confrontation with Christian forces — General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ - which began in March and lasted until the Arab League-sponsored ceasefire last month . |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't say they were in the same field , ’ he says dryly . |
| 22 | The Chancellor appeared to be unmoved by the appeals from some of his party faithful , preferring to claim that his actions were in the country 's long term interest . |
| 23 | Two runs scored , and the Giants were in the World Series . |
| 24 | The kids were in the house and Daddy was up in the roof throwing bikes down . |
| 25 | The differences between Mirror and Sun/Star readers were in the expected directions but quite small . |
| 26 | The best-paid workers in Belorussia were in the bristle industry . |
| 27 | But what was suddenly seen as extraordinary was that the supernatural , the miraculous , and certain doctrines were just as present in the layers now believed to be the earliest as they were in the layers believed to be later . |
| 28 | The continental commentators on Amsterdam were in the habit of minuting Ramsey 's name as that of the chief opponent of Barth . |
| 29 | our acts were in the building a lot of the time working on their songs , while we would help in the most appropriate ways to ensure the artist 's continued development . ’ |
| 30 | At the same time , our poet 's impromptu verses — often he had n't seen the film before — were in the complex scheme of Persian poetry , rhyming , scanning , and so on . |