Example sentences of "was in [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His answer was that the village was in no worse state than when he bought the estate and that he had spent over £3000 on improvements though the villagers were legally liable to the cost . |
| 2 | However , by the end of the century it was in no better health than the older , eighteenth-century bodies : the 1902 Parliamentary Breakfast saw only thirteen MPs present . |
| 3 | She was in a narrow passage that crookedly connected two busy streets . |
| 4 | But until recently British Steel decided that their iron and steel works at Scunthorpe was in a suitable position and they enlarged it . |
| 5 | Alain was in a black mood and Marguerite was trying hard to pretend she wanted to go back to Paris . |
| 6 | She was in a black gloom because not even a postcard had arrived from Ricky . |
| 7 | the head was in a better position than the LEA to make decisions about the school ; |
| 8 | Kuchma told parliament that Ukraine 's economy was in a worse state than that of any other former Soviet republic . |
| 9 | ‘ I can half accept the free kick because it was in a central position but to let one in straight from a corner is something else … |
| 10 | One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67 , as happened in 1609 ; and so was his descendant in 1653 when , at Corinthians vi.9 , he pronounced that ‘ the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ’ , which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth . |
| 11 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 12 | I was in a familiar world and I was able to explain to Jenny how everything was done . |
| 13 | By 1930 Addis Ababa was in a vast wood that spread up the slopes of the Entoto hills . |
| 14 | Last night hospital staff said Mr Godding was in a stable condition and Mrs Grieveson was ‘ very poorly ’ . |
| 15 | This is usually identified with Hollows Tower , still to be seen in a fine state of repair beside the A7 near Canonbie , though it was in a poor state after Lord Dacre had ridden in from England to burn it . |
| 16 | Once more he was in a good position when one of his tee shots hit an aluminium ladder which a spectator was carrying and ricocheted 40 yards into the trees . |
| 17 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
| 18 | The sun was going down and it was in a warm twilight that they reached the summit of their climb . |
| 19 | When I was 15 I was in a depressed state and I thought , I 'll do these last paintings about the end of the world and then I 'll end it . |
| 20 | When I was 15 I was in a depressed state and I thought , I 'll do these last paintings about the end of the world and then I 'll end it . |
| 21 | And that was in a cheap shop that was down Weston . |
| 22 | Mrs Field summoned the vet immediately , who said it was in a hopeless condition and should be put down at once . |
| 23 | He was in a strange mood and , rather than provoke him further , she decided to forget about it , determined not to mention it again . |
| 24 | Several hundred yards away , Riessa was in a strange humour as she strode down the worn steps that led into the hollow heart of the Wyrmberg , followed by half a dozen Riders . |
| 25 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 26 | In 1763 the Reverend Thomas Whickens wrote to Bishop James in Hereford informing him that his rectory at Dormington was in a ruinous condition and asking his permission to build a new one . |
| 27 | It was in a terrible state when we moved in but we cleaned it up and made it quite homely . |
| 28 | I was in a terrible mood and somebody had to suffer . |
| 29 | At 2300 h the boy was in a deep sleep and could hardly be awakened . |
| 30 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |