Example sentences of "in [adj] be [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raid on Gay 's The Word bookshop in 1984 was merely the largest and best publicised exercise in State censorship this decade . |
| 2 | Paul Schrader 's Blue Collar in 1978 and Karel Reisz 's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1960 are probably the two most famous attempts to sincerely conjure the dull routines of the shop floor . |
| 3 | Londonderry was chosen as the focus because the religious balance of the city in 1911 was almost the exact inverse of the county , thus providing a rural/urban dimension to the study . |
| 4 | Analysing the economic position of lone mothers in the context of the economic position of women in general is therefore the only way to understand the causes of their poverty . |
| 5 | Davenport 's attitude to group marketing in general is much the same as for the Royal Oak . |
| 6 | The pay of a sailor in the French navy in 1789 was practically the same as it had been a century before , though during that period prices had almost doubled . |
| 7 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 8 | He had nothing to fear from a Council , and Anselm was able to hold two Councils in the last years of his life ; the first of these in 1102 was certainly the high point in his activity as archbishop . |
| 9 | My view was that we should examine whether the money was reaching those that most needed it and whether the priorities of the system laid down in 1945 were still the same . |
| 10 | The programme in 1988 was basically the same , and I am sure audience and choirs stood then , as they do now , for the ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus . |