Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in the trenches by Christmas 1915 and eventually , from July 1916 , in the carnage of the Somme . |
| 2 | Areas where the workforce extended their influence were in the procedures for promotion , where the power of managerial prerogative was weakened and increasing weight was given to seniority and skill tests ; in joint determination of rosters tor footplate and train staff ; in the ending of split shifts ; and in the reform of the authoritarian disciplinary system . |
| 3 | The most common problems were in the areas of occupation , socially embarrassing behaviour , use of public amenities , managing own affairs and psychotic symptoms . |
| 4 | In an appreciation , Emeritus Prof Robert Kenedi said yesterday : HIS pioneering initiatives , documented by his many publications , were in the areas of tissue immunology , burns , bio-engineering and various aspects of plastic surgery , including its history . |
| 5 | Capitalist activity in the nineteenth century , for the reasons discussed above , was mainly associated with new types of activity , such as cocoa production or mineral mining , whether these were in the hands of European or African entrepreneurs . |
| 6 | In consequence we must grow harder , more ruthless than we were in the days of ease . |
| 7 | Several months ago we were in the depths of recession but signs are encouraging that we are moving out of it . ’ |
| 8 | All the windows were shuttered as if we were in the depths of winter . |
| 9 | We were in the rapids of revolution . |
| 10 | I introduced your name in the conversation , said I was your Factor , told him that you were in the Lakes for pleasure but also with an eye to acquiring property , etc. , etc . |
| 11 | Yesterday Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates Mrs Wilson was in the ladies at Club Lucy 's in Darlington when a young woman asked who she was . |
| 12 | Secondly , it was in the interests of factory owners and investors that they should participate , for it was of little use to produce increasing quantities of goods if the mass of the population could not afford to buy them . |
| 13 | Caroline Willbourne , a London barrister specialising in family law , said decriminalisation of sexual offences within the family where the offender admitted the abuse was in the interests of child victims . |
| 14 | This was in the interests of deniability . |
| 15 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 16 | A month or two ago this young , sensitive man with his quick intelligence and humour , was in the courts for drug offences . |
| 17 | Similar difficulties can occur if the former matrimonial home was in the names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , for on the death of either it would appear to a purchaser that the survivor had the right to sell ( Law of Property ( Joint Tenants ) Act 1964 , s1(1) ) . |
| 18 | Then , as now , the NHS was in the throes of reorganisation and the cry was that extra millions were being wasted on bureaucracy . |
| 19 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 20 | Her father was where he always was in the afternoons of mid-winter . |
| 21 | On the Mexican Central Railway , the higher officials , engine-drivers , and conductors were all American at the turn of the century ( on the British-financed lines , many of these would have been British ) ; the brakesmen and station-masters were Mexican ; while all catering was in the hands of Chinese . |
| 22 | Their future was in the hands of pre-teen and teenage crews as the RYA 's Stuart Jardine and Jim Saltonstall , senior racing coach , stalked them round the lake to see how they performed . |
| 23 | Using systematic research techniques , he claimed to uncover a stratified pyramid of power in American cities whose apex was in the hands of business and social elites outside the formal structures of local political institutions . |
| 24 | As for employee involvement , it is certainly greater than it ever was in the years of nationalization . |
| 25 | Just as their main interest was in the ways of life of people as seen by the people themselves , so they tried to get a sense of the past into their work by using life-histories . |
| 26 | What a busy place Shrewsbury Station was in the days of steam ! |
| 27 | However , as a resource of what is a question in a flagging economy which is unlikely in the near future to be in search of recruits to the labour force from marginal groups , as it was in the days of labour shortage in the 1950s ( Harper and Thane , 1989 ) . |
| 28 | Jonadab was in the depths of depression : he had kept the stallion in his stable and before going in for their midday meal , both father and sons were in consultation round the gentle grey . |
| 29 | There was something rather reckless in my attending the present lectures at all , because it was in the depths of winter , and from where I now lived it was rather a long walk to the town — over a mile , at any rate . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |