Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] in [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 2 | A Coles diesel crane and a diesel loco were stable in the engineer 's siding and they , together with the supply of skilled volunteers at the station , completed the re-railing in just 70 minutes . |
| 3 | Being ‘ dog people ’ they were interested in the poodles ' performance and commented on what lovely dogs , ‘ Pity you do n't know how to show them to their best advantage . ’ |
| 4 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 5 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 6 | By the start of the new term in the autumn of 1988 , the negative aspects of the ‘ tide ’ were uppermost in the authorities ' minds . |
| 7 | When at last he was private in the abbot 's parlour with Radulfus , Prior Robert , Herluin , and Brother Cadfael , whose presence Tutilo himself had requested , he launched upon his story baldly enough . |
| 8 | It was popular in the cinema 's was n't it ? |
| 9 | He joined the then liberal majority on the court and was instrumental in the court 's many decisions which advanced minority rights . |
| 10 | But Wilkins , at 36 playing better than ever , was instrumental in the club 's 2-0 win at Wimbledon and said : ’ We were committed and in the end we came through . ’ |
| 11 | He was involved in the Polytechnic 's first CNAA Degree Course , Science with Industrial Studies , and is nowadays particularly concerned in the BA in Business Studies . |
| 12 | One of the officers who responded to Miss Wilson 's emergency call and was involved in the man 's arrest , PC Paul Giles , was said also to have arrested Mr Quinn . |
| 13 | ‘ Bowyer was involved in the Duke 's destruction . |
| 14 | If torture was involved in the pilots ' remarks this week — and many remember the UN investigations of Iraq 's treatment of prisoners during the war with Iran — the rules were broken . |
| 15 | The light was poor in the Collector 's bedroom and Fleury might not have noticed how red and swollen his face was , had the Collector not presently fallen sideways , rapping his head on the floor . |
| 16 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
| 17 | Emphasis was placed in the case of girls , on ‘ moral training and female accomplishments ’ ; the training was well-advertised in the Ellis 's pamphlet Progressive Education for Young Ladies . |
| 18 | John Main was a very minor figure in the politics of Inverkeithing , for he was not a councillor , but Main was influential in the hammermen 's trade , and in a contested election for deacon of the hammermen John Main 's vote carried the contest for Cunningham 's friend . |
| 19 | In fact , the structure of Vanguards propaganda is similar to that of the National Front in the 1970s , when the antisemitism was muted in the party 's magazines , but more directly expressed in recommended books . |
| 20 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |