Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common problems were in the areas of occupation , socially embarrassing behaviour , use of public amenities , managing own affairs and psychotic symptoms . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In consequence we must grow harder , more ruthless than we were in the days of ease . |
| 5 | Several months ago we were in the depths of recession but signs are encouraging that we are moving out of it . ’ |
| 6 | All the windows were shuttered as if we were in the depths of winter . |
| 7 | We were in the rapids of revolution . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was in the interests of deniability . |
| 11 | 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) ) . |
| 12 | Then , as now , the NHS was in the throes of reorganisation and the cry was that extra millions were being wasted on bureaucracy . |
| 13 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 14 | Her father was where he always was in the afternoons of mid-winter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As for employee involvement , it is certainly greater than it ever was in the years of nationalization . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What a busy place Shrewsbury Station was in the days of steam ! |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |
| 25 | With savage irony , when she was in the depths of despair , the tide of publicity turned against her . |
| 26 | My poor master was in the depths of despair . |
| 27 | Once , Ken told John Lahr , he was in the depths of despair . |