Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 2 | Neither Charles Booth nor Seebohm Rowntree were sociologists ; they were just wealthy men with strong social consciences who were interested in the problems of poverty and were able enough to carry out quite sophisticated studies of this phenomenon in London and York at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | The court stressed the mutuality of the partnership contract by which the restriction was applied to all partners who together were interested in the profits of the firm as a single practice . |
| 4 | Gill naturally began probing top British Aerospace personnel who , facing redundancy and compulsory relocation away from the Home Counties to the North of England , were interested in the opportunities on offer . |
| 5 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 6 | The thirteen open-toppers were popular in the years before the war , when they replaced the Dreadnoughts . |
| 7 | Jobs were unavailable in the towns to which the hordes of young found their way . |
| 8 | Harrowby had expressed faith in scientific education and in the scientific spirit generally , and these things were prominent in the Discourses at the Royal Institution in the 1870s . |
| 9 | But the instability of the political structures and other weaknesses were obvious in the struggles between the factions within the party . |
| 10 | Even if these criteria were generally accepted as determinative , there is no evidence that all ( or even any ) of these factors were present in the contracts between the creditors and the Tin Council . |
| 11 | Very few small mammal bones were present in the pellets of this species . |
| 12 | The authorities were quite prepared to intervene against radicals , and radicals were inexperienced in the ways of conspiracy . |
| 13 | As to coming together for further talks , I think that I speak for all those who were involved in the talks in the summer , which we concluded , when I say that those who took part in them felt that they were valuable and looked forward to the possibility of being able to hold talks again . |
| 14 | President Alfredo Cristiani stated in a broadcast on Jan. 7 that investigations had shown that elements of the armed forces were involved in the murders on Nov. 16 of six Jesuits and their two servants [ see pp. 37037-38 ] . |
| 15 | He was aware that his powers were limited : ‘ The civil service , the police , the judiciary , defence and external affairs were all in the hands of the Governor and … all decisions thereon had to come from Whitehall ’ ( p. 147 ) . |
| 16 | Then one hand was holding her still , while the fingers of the other were busy in the folds of her hair . |
| 17 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |
| 18 | It was accepted that these restrictions were necessary in the interests of the community , salus populi est suprema lex , and that private owners should be compelled to comply with them even at cost to themselves . |
| 19 | The report alleged that many scientists , engineers and other specialists were not given the opportunities they should have and too few civil servants were skilled in the techniques of modern management . |
| 20 | Though chaired by the latitudinarian Anglican , and radical , manufacturer Thomas Walker , it contained a number of Rational Dissenters in the professions — lawyers and doctors — several of whom had an intellectual bent and were active in the discussions of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , a significant regional conduit for Enlightenment thinking . |
| 21 | This observed acidification was greatest in the lakes at high elevation and was of the same magnitude as the current precipitation acidity in the region , that is pH 4.2 ( or 63 u eq/l ) , although mountain-top locations are frequently enveloped in cloud and mist characterized by very low pH values ( e.g. pH 3.6 or 250 u eq/l ) . |
| 22 | Gall bladder emptying in response to graded CCK8 stimulation was impaired in five of 11 patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy , whereas it was normal in the patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 23 | The stable had lost its star , but there was another in the wings in the shape of Chaplins Club . |
| 24 | Weber was interested in the reasons for the emergence of capitalism in western Europe . |
| 25 | Mr. Perot was interested in the properties on behalf of himself and his family . |
| 26 | Milgram was interested in the effects of authority on human behaviour . |
| 27 | The challenge of the environment was the key to progress — yet neither Lankester nor MacBride was interested in the details of local adaptation . |
| 28 | I was interested in the waves of immigration into Britain both pre-historically and later , and I kept on looking for proposals which would represent this both in multi-cultural and archaeological terms . |
| 29 | Jonadab had already hired a new third lad , or ‘ thoddy ’ as they were known , and there was little more for them to do in the town : neither was interested in the attractions of sideshows or stalls . |
| 30 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |