Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in no great hurry to make use of him ; not till 9 July was he returned to Java without ceremony in a small motor launch . |
| 2 | The position was however different as regards A and the company , for they had not been charged , and in the view of the deputy judge were in no better or worse position than any other potential witness from whom information and documents were sought for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of the Act . |
| 3 | The coastguards then decided it was too risky to fly the men off the vessel because of the atrocious weather , saying the men were in no immediate danger . |
| 4 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 5 | A lot of them were in no fit state to know if work needed to be done on their homes or how much it would cost them . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah me and Roxy and Claire were in a real drinking mood . |
| 7 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 8 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 9 | Patients with the 3849+10 kb mutation were older , had been diagnosed as having CF at a more advanced age , and were in a better nutritional state . |
| 10 | As Collier put it : " The greatest number of families were in a better economic position after the introduction of the factory system because of the increased earnings of women and children . " |
| 11 | Again the terms were in a standard form , and were not negotiated as a result of the imbalance of bargaining power . |
| 12 | ‘ We were in a no-win situation and when I was offered the chance to go to another team I took it . |
| 13 | Lowell and Zoe were in a dead-locked situation — neither would budge . |
| 14 | The office servants were cheerful , knowing they were in a thriving company at a time when others were tottering ; she had to run an endless gauntlet of their cheer . |
| 15 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 16 | Yeah , it 's alright for you , you were in a nice warm bath , I was downstairs . |
| 17 | Two Egyptians , including the tour bus guide , were in a serious condition . |
| 18 | Pause pause speak rather slower than you would do if you were in a normal conversation . |
| 19 | Here we were in a dangerous border area , and our campsite was vitally indefensible , but we could find none better . |
| 20 | It restored credence in the creativity of the system of English justice ; it provided a virile and vigorous procedure for remedies in the public law area to replace those that were in a weary and withering state . |
| 21 | They were in a small office on the fourth floor , and one wall of the office was glass , and the heater was full on . |
| 22 | We were in a small room , but there was a good dinner on the table , and we were happy . |
| 23 | They were in a small audience chamber , and they had been excused the customary prostrations . |
| 24 | He put her gently on her feet and the click of a door closing made her aware that they were in a small side-room . |
| 25 | We were in a small courtyard into which had been crammed half a dozen hutches and garden-shed-type constructions . |
| 26 | In 1893 we were about bankrupt ; and from 1893 onwards we were in a chronic state of bankruptcy . |
| 27 | All six , who are receiving artificial ventilation , were in a stable condition , said a hospital spokesman . |
| 28 | They were in a half-moon , and all facing the fire . |
| 29 | At this stage they were in a similar position to Jones in the sense that both groups had suggestive hints of phenomena whose confirmation would require more sophisticated detailed experiments . |
| 30 | They were in a similar position to the person coming along on a standby basis for an airline seat as against the passenger paying a full fare , and without the full rights of a standby passenger , in the sense that the decision whether or not to accommodate them in the college was entirely discretionary . |