Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small number of late-nineteenth-century thinkers did begin to warn against the dangers of pollution and environmental exhaustion , but they were as yet in a minority . |
| 2 | No typewriters were as yet in use , and the young recruits were taught the " diplomatic " style of handwriting , designed for maximum legibility . |
| 3 | He found himself saying , ‘ In 1919 the Enabling Act was passed ’ and then could not remember what the Enabling Act was ; although it was and still in part is the Act which defines the nature of the establishment in England . |
| 4 | We were in a supermarket , I do n't know where it was but somewhere in the states and I told you I think they 're boast were sixty something varieties of peanut butter . |
| 5 | The firm was but rarely in the area of financial services until Michael Springman joined in 1986 to head a City practice . |