Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in total agreement that it was the best thing for both sides that Isabelle should go . |
| 2 | It was in buoyant mood that she was driven back to Merchiston Lodge , and she entered her employer 's bedchamber with a smile on her lips . |
| 3 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 4 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 5 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
| 6 | It was in that House that he scored his greatest triumph for the cause of deaf people by persuading the Labour Government of Attlee that to provide free spectacles to the partially-sighted , free dentures to those whose teeth had rotted , free artificial limbs to the disabled , but to actually charge the sum of £10 to deaf people for National Health hearing-aids was blatant discrimination ! |
| 7 | For if that departed order can be allowed any saving graces , it was in that area that they might be found . |
| 8 | I knew then that my last hours had come but was in such agony that I began to wish they would come sooner . |
| 9 | ‘ I was in such shock that I wanted to phone round Julie 's friends but she had taken her contacts book with her and I was in a panic . |
| 10 | This modest and pioneering rule-book was in such demand that he was forced to publish the fifteenth edition in 1904 . |
| 11 | Harry Pascoe heard the laughter following this remark and was in little doubt that it was at his own expense . |
| 12 | The song ‘ You are my Heart 's Delight ’ from Lehár 's operetta The Land of Smiles ( 1929 ) was one of his most famous , and it was in this work that he first came to England in 1931 . |
| 13 | And it was in this way that I clearly began to hear the call of God . |
| 14 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 15 | It was in this way that he made many of his policy decisions . |
| 16 | It was in this way that he discovered that not all Morris 's application with the typewriter was devoted to ‘ In Years Gone By . ’ |
| 17 | It was in this mood that he decided to bring The Criterion to an end . |
| 18 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |
| 19 | It was in this spirit that he conducted , round the back of the law , the contra operation . |
| 20 | It was in this role that he removed the relics of the Three Wise Men from Milan , and placed them in Cologne Cathedral , where they are still found to this day . |
| 21 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 22 | It was in this period that they too were cleared , drained and divided into fields and new patterns of occupation were established within them . |
| 23 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 24 | It was in this context that we can try to understand the switch in focus in the taboo against masturbation , which was increasingly directed at infants and young adolescents . |
| 25 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |
| 26 | It was in this prison that I met Shanaz . |
| 27 | So he was born de Lisle , and it was at the point that he was in military school that he added the Rouget , you know , like having a double barrelled name , |
| 28 | It was in Geo-related work that we experienced our greatest problems during the year , leading to the closure of our Scottish and Billingham offices , and the reduction of Warrington from two offices to one . |