Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] in [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | and if they were disproportion or , or were excess in that regard they would fall within eighty five , one . |
2 | For there were many in that land who had taken their magical researches too far and into whose souls darkness entered . |
3 | Or again , independent nomic conditionals come to this : Given the rest of the world as it was , or given that it was different in any way we can conceive it as [ icing , without logically " excluding a and b , then if a happened so did b . |
4 | Also , I was interested in any information you could give me on working in advertising or public relations on a music journal . |
5 | She felt somehow that her sister needed it , for it seemed only too probable that if Rupert was interested in any woman it was in Ianthe . |
6 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
7 | As he came from Palace I suppose he was involved in that thrashing they received from the Scousers a bit ago ( was it 9–1 or something ? ) . |
8 | I do not know to which local authority the hon. Gentleman is referring , but may I try to explain the context of the debate to him , because it seems to be going straight over the heads of Conservative Members , as was evident in that intervention which I shall now try to answer . |
9 | There were two o there 's always two no matter where you go , there was two in that room they had to fetch me out . |