Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were obviously in a dark room , but where in space or time was unknown . |
| 2 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 3 | Some critics of the operation have remarked that many of the evacuues , though wounded , were not in a critical condition . |
| 4 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 5 | It was infinitely more unnerving than that though , for they were not in a sealed room but out in the open , with the air rent with cries from the crowd : screams of naked terror and prayers for deliverance . |
| 6 | Dundee , a university whose publishing and citation counts were low , felt that their consultation records were not in a proper state for the derivation of meaningful statistics . |
| 7 | Best J. appeared to consider that the payment was involuntary inasmuch as the attorney , being in ignorance of the true situation , both parties were not in an equal position . |
| 8 | They were not in an easy position . |
| 9 | All three countries were already in a deep recession last summer , which the war has made worse . |
| 10 | The resultant backlash of unwelcome public attention forced the Government , who were already in a legislative frame of mind , to act swiftly . |
| 11 | You were hardly in a cheerful frame of mind when I first met you this morning . |
| 12 | He told her : ‘ I dare n't be otherwise — because if I were ever in a compromising situation , if the police raided or if someone kissed and told I 'd be up the creek . ’ |
| 13 | We 'd had these super three weeks in Crete — marvellous weather , nice hotel , swimming , really got on — and even though the flight was delayed we were still in a terrific mood when we got to Gatwick . |
| 14 | Although there had been a 6 per cent swing from ‘ right ’ to ‘ left ’ between the two elections the former were still in a clear majority . |
| 15 | ‘ I first met Eddie Garland at Lamorna , in 1931 , I think it was , when we were both in an outdoor painting group with Birch . |
| 16 | ONE of your contributors recently stated that we were now in a post-apartheid period . |
| 17 | Governors were now in a better position to judge how recently opted out schools have fared financially , she said . |
| 18 | Except for Bulgaria , the report found that the east European countries were now in a better situation than in the early 1980s , in terms of their debt-service ratio ( the ratio of annual payments on principal and interest to export earnings ) , to cope with their obligations . |
| 19 | But Leith 's glance went from him to where , at some time in the night , he must have become too hot and in stupor had shed his clothes , which were now in a crumpled heap by the side of the bed . |
| 20 | They were back in a narrow country road and there were powerful lights behind them . |
| 21 | ‘ You and I are also required to put in an appearance at the police station later , but I managed to persuade them you were n't in a fit state to answer questions right now . ’ |
| 22 | Organiser Barry Clemo said after the event : ‘ Everyone really enjoyed themselves , but the pancakes were n't in an edible state afterwards . |
| 23 | Sometimes the plates were even in a different format from the text , coming in a great atlas volume and making the work a nuisance to shelf . |
| 24 | If people like that could see their awkwardness , they were indeed in a bad way . |
| 25 | The rest were there in a self-conscious group at the side . |
| 26 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 27 | He was altogether in a parlous state : the weather was bad , there was no water in the flat ; he did not care to go out at nights and was seeing fewer people . |
| 28 | His architectural work was predominantly in a neo-classical manner with the use of domed segmental projections , examples being Doddington Hall , Cheshire , 1777–98 ; Hooton Hall , Cheshire , 1778–88 , since demolished ; Herstmonceux Place , Sussex , 1777 ; and Belmont Park , Kent , 1787–92 . |
| 29 | Here was somewhere in a meditative limbo between earthly chaos and spiritual ecstasy ; we could have been on the crystal lake of the Apocalypse , half-way to paradise … |
| 30 | However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh . |