Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course . |
| 2 | Although in three cases it was recognised that the operation was technically unsatisfactory and early rebleeding was encountered in each case , in the rest there appeared to be no obvious explanation for these surgical failures . |
| 3 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 4 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 5 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 6 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 7 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 8 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
| 9 | We have to remember that in many cases it was , ironically , only accidental hardening by destructive fires that preserved caches of clay tablets as samples of the Minoan scripts . |
| 10 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 11 | However , the Oxford Study showed that in many cases it was not a factor , since very little use was made of this procedure , despite its obvious advantages to the defendant . |
| 12 | Incontinence , however , was poorly defined ( for solid or liquid stools ) , but we may reasonably suppose that in many cases it was for liquid stools only . |
| 13 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 14 | I argued that in most cases it was quite clear that the projects officers had not paid any serious attention to gender issues . |
| 15 | That is why Britain largely escaped enclave development and why we must augment Hobsbawm 's assertion that the home market " provided the broad foundations for a generalised industrial economy " , by adding that in this provision it was materially assisted by an overseas market for manufactured goods of a kind possessed by no other economy . |
| 16 | The Distinguished Flying Cross ( DFC ) was established on the same date as the AFC , June 3 , 1918 , with the same basis except that in this instance it was for duty performed whilst flying on active operations against the enemy . |
| 17 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 18 | Whereupon he made a further defensive remark that in any event it was now too late to effect any alterations . |
| 19 | The Cabinet agreed that in these circumstances it was inevitable that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote . |
| 20 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 21 | However , the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 26 noted that in some quarters it was being interpreted as " a gambit to force parliament to commute the sentences , thereby improving Turkey 's international image " . |
| 22 | The reader will have seen that in both examples it was necessary to make a number of special assumptions . |
| 23 | The thesis would be pointless if most mistakes are jurisdictional or if in most cases it was particularly controversial and difficult to establish which are and which are not . |
| 24 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 25 | So Dawn Run came to Cheltenham on Gold Cup day with only four races over fences behind her , and in many quarters it was felt that inexperience would prove her downfall against her much more seasoned rivals . |
| 26 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 27 | ‘ the transfer on its face was a perfectly regular sale and as against third parties taking a legal estate for value and in good faith it was within the ostensible authority of Mrs. Steed and can not now be repudiated against such third parties . |
| 28 | Only a few , such as the Royal Bristol Volunteers carried on , and in that instance it was to guard the many Napoleonic prisoners of war in Bristol . |
| 29 | The working party adopted the proposal for a Committee of Institutions — as did the Council , and in due course it was established . |
| 30 | The basilica was badly damaged in the ninth century earthquake , and in Medieval days it was used , like the Colosseum , as a quarry for building . |