Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] in [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 2 | If the consignor wanted to ensure that no person other than the consignee or the lawful holder of the bill could claim delivery , he could stipulate that delivery required production of all the copies or parts of the set that were not in the master 's possession . |
| 3 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 4 | A 22-year-old man , from Bath , who suffered serious head injuries , a 16-year-old girl , from Keynsham , a man , aged 24 , from Saltford , and a woman from Brislington , Bristol , were also in the city 's Royal Infirmary . |
| 5 | No , you were out in the kitchen erm he went and I thought oh do n't you dare |
| 6 | One or two people said that you were n't in the Americans ' league . ‘ |
| 7 | The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence . |
| 8 | He achieved this only by disobeying his firm 's orders that he should sell certain stocks at certain times , and by slipping in bargains here and there that were actually in the client 's interest . |
| 9 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 10 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 11 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 12 | But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’ |
| 13 | But it was not in the Duchess 's nature to let anything remain undisturbed if it was amenable to her interference . |
| 14 | It was not in the king 's interest to associate himself with a movement which at most would merely ensure the removal from power of one magnate clique and its replacement by another . |
| 15 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 16 | It was downstairs in the hotel 's night-bar that the unfortunate Simonsen met her undignified match . |
| 17 | This might appear to be a criticism of the school in how it undertook its appraisal , but one must question whether it was really in the school 's interests to produce an evaluation in which its weaknesses were openly admitted . |
| 18 | CHIRPY Les Dawson was back in a dame 's frock yesterday for a knees up with Linda Lusardi . |
| 19 | SNOOKER star Neal Foulds was back in the winners ' enclosure at Motherwell last night after a four-year wait . |
| 20 | He had reached the top of the fourth carpeted flight of stairs when he realised he was now in the members ' bedroom corridor . |
| 21 | One was even in the manager 's office , tidying up . |
| 22 | She could n't believe that she was n't in the baker 's next door . |
| 23 | And secondly the fact that it was n't in the budget erm and the fact that they 're late means that we 're not also realizing the productivity in other areas that we had anticipated so we 're gon na be some six months late coming in . |
| 24 | He was certainly in the earl 's service by 1267 , when he was one of those who advised him to occupy London in support of the claims of the ‘ disinherited ’ and was given a safe conduct to bring a message from the earl to the king . |