Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor supposed originally that slip in ductile crystals was due entirely to those dislocations which were present initially in the crystal due to the accidents of imperfect growth . |
| 2 | There were other places that they loved which were accessible only in the summer . |
| 3 | It mingled with the smell of dog 's dinner which was simmering casually in a huge open vat : nameless portions of meat floated occasionally to the surface , nudging aside whole carrots . |
| 4 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 5 | The south-facing windows caught all the available light which was meagre enough in the winter . |
| 6 | She was far away in the world of her imagination . |
| 7 | He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene . |
| 8 | We were all together in the ‘ team room ’ watching the News when an interview with Lillee came onto the screen . |
| 9 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 10 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 11 | In addition there were those both in the State Department and in the Pentagon who were determined to end Britain 's special nuclear status . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly there were men who made substantial fortunes , but there is not sufficient evidence to say whether they were exceptional merely in the scale of their gains or because they contrived to prosper when others failed . |
| 13 | It was 4 o'clock in the morning when Agnes got up . |
| 14 | It was five o'clock in the morning . |
| 15 | There was a bed in one corner still unmade , although it was five o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 16 | Mark says it was nine o'clock in the morning when the crucifixion took place . |
| 17 | It was two o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 18 | It was two o'clock in the morning before she was conscious again , and able to call the police . |
| 19 | It was two o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 20 | It was one o'clock in the morning . |
| 21 | It was one o'clock in the morning on a windless November night of 1837 . |
| 22 | It was six o'clock in the evening , four hours since the Deputy Public Prosecutor had summoned Zen to his office in the law courts . |
| 23 | It was six o'clock in the morning and already the temperature was rising . |
| 24 | It was four o'clock in the morning . |
| 25 | It was four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 26 | When it was simmering slowly in the Aga she went into Penry , who was searching distractedly through piles of medical tomes . |
| 27 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 28 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 29 | That 's why I presume it was eight o'clock in the morning you see . |
| 30 | It was ten o'clock in the morning and the streets were almost deserted . |