Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 2 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 3 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 4 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 5 | We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously ! |
| 6 | Again it came as no surprise that the winners were in all the higher price bracket . |
| 7 | The House of Lords in that case was concerned with provisions in the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act 1977 which were in substantially the same terms as those to which I have referred in the Housing Act 1985 , as originally enacted . |
| 8 | Moreover , there was in both the Conservative and Labour Parties at this time a widespread mistrust and fear of Lloyd George . |
| 9 | But , after seeing Thoroughly Modern Millie , I honestly felt that I could n't take a whole movie in which Carol was in practically every scene . |
| 10 | Twelve minutes after the break he moved into the middle during a rare Palace break and was in just the right spot to hammer home a left-wing cross to give Palace a great victory and set up a 3rd round tie against Liverpool ! |
| 11 | I genuinely liked them as people , I loved their music , and I was in exactly the right place at the right time . |
| 12 | Everyone was in rather a hurry and I am always bad at catching people 's names . |
| 13 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 14 | in case you did n't notice I was in rather a little bit of a mood on Friday ! |
| 15 | As Le Cerf 's use of the terms ton and mode is somewhat confused this was perhaps exactly what he had in mind ; certainly his contemporary Michel de Saint Lambert was employing ton in the sense of a tonic upon which one could build a piece that was in either the major or minor mode . |
| 16 | The walls were a blaze of colour — vivid , exciting , dramatic paintings that all but covered the walls , and she was in nearly every one of them . |
| 17 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
| 18 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 19 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 20 | Even this was in quite a congested area and from 25 October 1944 , the cars carried on , out of service to the Coombe Road crossover and reversed there . |
| 21 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 22 | Jacqui was in quite a state . |
| 23 | He took her arm firmly and Jenna was in quite a dilemma . |
| 24 | ‘ He went upstairs to see some rat holes … they certainly were enormous — and discovered that the room in which the food of the Gods was mixed … was in quite a disgraceful order . ’ |
| 25 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |
| 26 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 27 | Its waist was in quite the wrong place about her midriff , instead of under the semi-exposed bosom where Rose Alderley 's muslin petticoats began their graceful fall to the ground . |
| 28 | Umpire Barker made no response to the appeal , whereupon Richards — who at slip was in precisely the wrong place to see what had happened — danced down the pitch waving his right hand frantically , giving every appearance that he was about to remonstrate forcefully with the umpire ; whereupon Mr Barker raised his finger and Bailey was on his way . |
| 29 | Alex was in early the following morning . |
| 30 | I was in almost the last batch to receive the award . |