Example sentences of "[was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that young man , declaiming and arguing , whom Charles Lamb was famously to invoke : ‘ Come back into memory , like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies , ’ he wrote in 1820 , ‘ with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician , Metaphysician , Bard ! ’ |
| 2 | He felt them shudder ; they were in the tunnel and the thunder of the oncoming express train was rattling the rails . |
| 3 | Well they were in the tunnel anyway . |
| 4 | I think one time there were some folk up from Lyness they cleared out and they were in the tunnel and of course they blasted . |
| 5 | Next thing we were in the woods and away . |
| 6 | When they were in the woods Tess turned to look at the house . |
| 7 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 8 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 9 | Many said they would feel shy if they were in the minority on a mixed course so there might well be opportunities for all-women courses . |
| 10 | These political activists , however , were in the minority . |
| 11 | Ford did not possess an electoral mandate of his own at all and in both houses of congress the Republicans were in the minority by large margins — in the Senate there were 56 Democrats and 42 Republicans whereas in the House there were 242 Democrats and 192 Republicans . |
| 12 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 13 | This is not to say the women artists chosen were only figurative painters — they were in the minority ; but many were re-interpreting the system of symbols . |
| 14 | Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors . |
| 15 | People we spoke to in Ross said that people involved in racial abuse were in the minority . |
| 16 | A Buckingham Palace spokesman denied claims yesterday that the materials were in the chapel . |
| 17 | You were as close to God in the gardens , under the big beech tree , or in the walled garden with its smell of rosemary and lemon balm , as you were in the chapel . |
| 18 | And they who were in the ships , fled to Denia . |
| 19 | Somebody did n't even know how many months there were in the year ! |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't see his face very well because the leaves and branches were in the way , but I saw him climb the fence and steal the bulbs . ’ |
| 21 | But he could not give supporting fire to protect the civilian drivers because women and children were in the way . |
| 22 | You were in the Grenadier Guards ? |
| 23 | Stirling 's old troop from No. 8 Commando had been absorbed by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who were in the desert at a place called Bug Bug , from where Johnny Cooper was recruited . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ I said , ‘ I thought you were in the Mafia , but it 's not much of a Mafia name . ’ |
| 25 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 26 | told me names of the curing stations can you mind any of the cooperages that were in the village ? |
| 27 | Every time I looked up , at the party , you were in the arms of another man . |
| 28 | This place , you called it ‘ The Big Garden ’ remote from the slums ; a waste land , crooked trees , and head-high grass , and easy to think ( Tarzan pictures ) that you were in the jungle . |
| 29 | This was the main reason the Pharisees hated the tax-collectors : they were in the pay of the Romans . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you were in the Belt . ’ |