Example sentences of "and it was in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the bloody Conservative come er through with the er postman so I just picked it up , opened it , ripped it up and it was in bloody bin before postman got to gate bloody Major and that Lamont , and the post together , yesterday . |
| 2 | And it was in complex hybrid forms that the American station was to develop , particularly after the Civil War . |
| 3 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 4 | There were too many stories of that nature , and it was in that year that Modi was labelled for long after his life . |
| 5 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
| 6 | She stepped forward a moment to admire a cabinet of gleaming silver — quite the most beautiful collection imaginable — and it was in that moment that something caught her eye . |
| 7 | Armstrong 's career in the Anglican Church was unexceptional and it was in other fields that this remarkable man achieved international distinction , most notably as a writer and an original student ( as observer and interpreter ) of bird behaviour — in which field he produced a huge output of highly influential articles , books , and scientific papers . |
| 8 | Their lives had been plain and unadorned , and it was in such language that Grainne would address them . |
| 9 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |
| 10 | But under international law neutralisation originally referred to a more specific regime and it was in this sense that Soviet international lawyers in the 1950s understood it . |
| 11 | and it was in this field that the pluralists most persistently attempted to combine empirical methods with assumptions which , if they were not entirely Madisonian , at least fitted prevailing norms rather better than the emerging stark elitism . |
| 12 | A special form of coloured route marker had to be developed and approved and it was in this field , as with TRE , that Bennett had the least of his problems . |
| 13 | And it was in this way that I clearly began to hear the call of God . |
| 14 | The song ‘ You are my Heart 's Delight ’ from Lehár 's operetta The Land of Smiles ( 1929 ) was one of his most famous , and it was in this work that he first came to England in 1931 . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 16 | And it was in this room , quietly and simply , that Morse told her of the death of Theodore Kemp , considering , in his own strange fashion , that it was perhaps not an inappropriate time for her to know . |
| 17 | The guardian and interpreter of socialist legality was the CPSU and it was in this role that the party justified its intervention in the course of justice in cases where the interest and security of the state were thought to be involved . |
| 18 | And it was in this frame of mind that I undertook the journey to visit a witchdoctor who reputedly had the ability to establish contact between a person and their ancestors . |
| 19 | And it was in this connection that Servois , in 1815 , introduced the notions of functions which are " distributive " and " commutative " , terms still used today ( see Section 1.2 ) . |
| 20 | During the Second World War |
| 21 | Then later when they started coming home his real concern was counting them in , and it was in this period that these pleasant and very charming visitors frequently wanted to get nearer to the operational scene . |
| 22 | It was , however , as we have seen , one of the great issues of the seventeenth century whether the Crown or Parliament was to hold the dominant sway under the English constitution , and it was in this context that Parliaments of England declared themselves to be ‘ sovereign ’ . |
| 23 | Female sexuality was necessarily therefore defined within these social and economic considerations , and it was in this context that the ‘ double standard ’ became an important adjunct of respectability . |
| 24 | There was undoubtedly seen to be a growing problem regarding adolescent girls because they were maturing a little earlier and marrying later , around 25 , and it was in this context that such horrors as clitoridectomies could be developed . |
| 25 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 26 | The essence of her nature could still express itself and be known by her visitors , and it was in this quality of spirit that her last claim to beauty lay . |
| 27 | And it was in any case a miracle that none of the random energy pulses had hit her . |
| 28 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 29 | And it was in these places that Nazarean tradition was to continue . |
| 30 | In fact , John Mumford 's view would be that just as the church needed a new model for healing ( and it was in some degree provided when John Wimber and his team came to train church leaders from many different denominations and streams in England ) , so a new model is needed for evangelistic ministry . |