Example sentences of "was in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 2 | Pater 's measured prose goes on to connect the picture with drawings by Verrocchio , speculate on the artist and the sitter , and wonder about how long the picture was in progress . |
| 3 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 4 | Writing as he was in the 1930s , he expressed his pleasure at the extensive documentation and reference material available to the student of art , instancing the growth of libraries and art historical teaching . |
| 5 | One of the articles is about the abstract artist Sol LeWitt , who was in Krauss 's opinion misinterpreted by three critics as serving ‘ as triumphant illustration of the powers of human reason . |
| 6 | The caption material under two images reads as follows : ‘ In the middle nineteenth century , before photography was in general use , Pilinski of Paris was famous ( and notorious ) for the deceptiveness of his copies of old woodcuts . |
| 7 | Lawrence , for example , was in Parma in 1820 , in ecstasy over the work of Correggio : |
| 8 | It was in Berlin that he first read Morelli 's work . |
| 9 | Sothebys were unfortunate enough to misattribute a French eighteenth-century picture , which was in fact by Fragonard . |
| 10 | It was in 1761 , that he first wrote an account of one of the Salons , which was circulated with his other correspondence in the fashion of the time by his friend Grimm . |
| 11 | Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own . |
| 12 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 13 | And the same monster was in Shelley , and Rimbaud , and Victor Hugo . |
| 14 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 15 | Patrick is a lord of language , as he was in the previous novel . |
| 16 | He is against racism and sexism , but is capable of reflecting : ‘ He was in love with Alison Houston . |
| 17 | I was in there last night trying to get some ideas for Volunteers Day . |
| 18 | He was in a bit of a state , I could n't believe it . |
| 19 | Her first job was in 1983 with the Leeds Playhouse Company , playing Essie in The Devil 's Disciple by Bernard Shaw . |
| 20 | Your first stage part was in something quite different from the classical roles , was n't it ? |
| 21 | It is much worse these days than it was in 1966 . |
| 22 | We aim to show in Chapter 5 that this blindness was in part promoted by the religious elements in their beliefs . |
| 23 | This shows the extent to which the republican ideal gained ground once independence was in place , furthering the ideological divide between protestant loyalism and catholic nationalism . |
| 24 | But there was in any case no doubt that the areas of the family , education , and public morality constituted part of the sacred sphere . |
| 25 | It could be argued that such a strategy was in any case unnecessary . |
| 26 | The first major demonstration of this was in 1983 , in the controversy over the abortion amendment . |
| 27 | The Roman catholic bishops supported the wording of the referendum and , as the referendum approached , said it was legitimate to oppose the amendment even if one was against abortion , which was in any case still immoral and was ‘ the direct taking of an innocent life ’ ( Irish Bishops ' Conference statement , quoted O'Carroll 1983 ) . |
| 28 | The Methodist Church in Ireland was in session during an unsuccessful attempt by the government to quash the running of the referendum . |
| 29 | At Firhouse , in South-West Dublin , a third project was in the making in 1975 . |
| 30 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |