Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | This modest and pioneering rule-book was in such demand that he was forced to publish the fifteenth edition in 1904 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was in this way that he made many of his policy decisions . |
| 7 | It was in this way that he discovered that not all Morris 's application with the typewriter was devoted to ‘ In Years Gone By . ’ |
| 8 | It was in this mood that he decided to bring The Criterion to an end . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was in this spirit that he conducted , round the back of the law , the contra operation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 13 | 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 , |