Example sentences of "[was/were] in a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office servants were cheerful , knowing they were in a thriving company at a time when others were tottering ; she had to run an endless gauntlet of their cheer . |
| 2 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 3 | We were in a small courtyard into which had been crammed half a dozen hutches and garden-shed-type constructions . |
| 4 | They were in a small office on the fourth floor , and one wall of the office was glass , and the heater was full on . |
| 5 | In 1893 we were about bankrupt ; and from 1893 onwards we were in a chronic state of bankruptcy . |
| 6 | At this stage they were in a similar position to Jones in the sense that both groups had suggestive hints of phenomena whose confirmation would require more sophisticated detailed experiments . |
| 7 | They were in a similar position to the person coming along on a standby basis for an airline seat as against the passenger paying a full fare , and without the full rights of a standby passenger , in the sense that the decision whether or not to accommodate them in the college was entirely discretionary . |
| 8 | The concentrations of vitamin D chosen were in a similar range to previous studies , and the lowest dose of 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 is probably within the human physiological range . |
| 9 | We were in a mild state of shock by the time we arrived at the bottom . |
| 10 | Moreover , newspapers were in a greater state of disrepair than other publications , with 18% being classified as ‘ Fragile ’ ( as opposed to 2% for monographs and 0% for serials ) . |
| 11 | The revenue paid to the chamber by states and vassals outside the Patrimony , who were in a feudal relationship with the Holy See — the tribute — was probably more profitable . |
| 12 | They were in a windowless hole of a dressing room , backstage of the El Paradiso — another charity , bring on the bloody drag ! |
| 13 | FLEET Street photographers , a pretty twitchy lot at the best of times , were in a right state at the Olympic Stadium in Rome this week . |
| 14 | ‘ My legs were in a right mess from blows which I took from Tony Cordle and I could hardly bowl for all the strapping when we took the field , ’ grinned Robinson . |
| 15 | Thus the agricultural systems of pre-colonial Africa were in a delicate balance with the environment , and sometimes with each other . |
| 16 | The government made no effort to redeem this promise but Unionists believed that they were in a temporary phase pending the reconstruction of the upper house , and that it was therefore no business of the government to bring in other constitutional Bills before they had settled the constitution itself . |
| 17 | They were in a desperate race with the towering , whirling walls of mauve-black cloud . |
| 18 | Now they thought they were in a new thing in nineteen fifties when they brought in one man operated buses but they were n't . |
| 19 | None of them were in a good state of decoration . |
| 20 | The team felt that , despite the scoreline , they were in a good position at this point but they had reckoned without the depth and strength of the Borders batting . |
| 21 | Many of the Motherwells were in a poor state of repair , and had to be completely reconstructed . |
| 22 | Just a few years ago he complained about the exact opposite — that the provisions for the community charge in Scotland were in a separate Bill from those for England and Wales . |
| 23 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 24 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 25 | We were in a narrow street with high , blank walls and the sun beating down . |
| 26 | They were in a deep crevice of the rock , and the faint lightening of the darkness before them was the mouth of a narrow cave opening upon the December night . |
| 27 | And a famous , ancient legend of kung fu relates that a Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma , crossed the Himalayas on foot to arrive at a half-ruined monastery whose monks were in a terrible state of health ; Bodhidharma , through a series of health-giving exercises based upon some Indian systems of yoga brought the monks from their emaciated state to a condition of youthful vitality . |
| 28 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 29 | It quoted a Polish couple who arrived in Hungary yesterday as saying that they were in a large shop on the main square when two or three thousand people began chanting anti-Ceausescu slogans outside . |
| 30 | By the late twelfth century the Papal State as a separate entity had been long established as a notion even if its boundaries were in a continual state of flux . |