Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 2 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
| 3 | If this were the case in driving it would have important implications for peoples ’ ability to learn to avoid danger . |
| 4 | This was no doubt in part due to his Puritan ancestry . |
| 5 | However , this was a commonplace in Wales and the fact that Tyrell received numerous grants from local landowners anxious to have his good will implies that he at least was a force to be reckoned with . |
| 6 | However , this was a commonplace in Wales and the fact that Tyrell received numerous grants from local landowners anxious to have his good will implies that he at least was a force to be reckoned with . |
| 7 | The logical development of this was a film in which there were no heroes , only victims and violence . |
| 8 | Single-parent families headed by widows were fairly common , for example , in Anderson 's study of mid-nineteenth-century Preston , and this was a circumstance in which people might well look to their relatives for support ( Anderson , 1971 , pp. 144–7 ) . |
| 9 | This was a system in which , not only were members of one 's own generation the only legitimate sexual partners , but not even all of these , since people who were descendants of the same ancestors would not marry . |
| 10 | One was the philosophic opposition of the Right-to-Life groups in this country ; and they said that this was a foot in the door , the first step down the road towards active and involuntary euthanasia , and we had that argument to counter and that group to deal with , and even after countering the argument , we still had the group to deal with . |
| 11 | For example , in order to realize their inward potentialities , men project upon the world a belief in God , a belief in divine commands , and at a certain point in history no doubt this was progressive , this was a way in which people could see what Russell calls their potentialities . |
| 12 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 13 | It follows from these passages from the coroner 's affidavit that he did not consider whether it was appropriate to hold an inquest to investigate whether this was a case in which the cause of death was aggravated by lack of care . |
| 14 | By doing so he was guilty of unlawful eviction and , accordingly , the judge in the court below was right to conclude that this was a case in which the tenant , on her counterclaim , was entitled to damages under section 28 of the Housing Act 1988 . |
| 15 | This was a man in his late 50s or early 60s , living on a ward with thirty other men . |
| 16 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 17 | This was a night in their minds — a creature from the darker side of man 's intellect . |
| 18 | As was noted above , it was suspected that this was a factor in the lack of a build-up of long-stay patients in the new services established after Powick was closed to admissions . |
| 19 | This was a factor in the merger between BMC and Pressed Steel Fisher some years ago ( Monopolies Commission , 1966 ) . |
| 20 | This was a factor in the development of inflation from around the mid-1960s . |
| 21 | For the PC user , who might have imagined that all this was a storm in a teacup , the world is also about to do a complete volte face . |
| 22 | This was a prophet in the old writings of the Jews and er one of their , one of the people who they looked to for wisdom . |
| 23 | This was a protest in which many tens of thousands of miners and their families suffered greatly for their belief in the rightness of their protest . |
| 24 | By nature the malais were heavily into festivals , and this was a landmark in the history of their presence . |
| 25 | She did not ring for a nurse because she did n't want to have to seem cheerful and she remembered from the two births of her live children , which had gone well , that this was a rule in hospitals . |
| 26 | This flux depresses narrative reflection ( ‘ … it was almost impossible to come to a conclusion about one 's own flow and that in fact this was a contradiction in terms since one was precisely one 's own flow … ’ |
| 27 | But to the rescue came P&O , on their fine ship we had to go ; This was a blessing in disguise , much better than the old cat 's eyes ; P&O you are the best — 100pc in the test . |
| 28 | Clearly this was a move in concert with the main English thrust . |
| 29 | For him this was a move in the right direction , though not far enough . |
| 30 | In the terms of our matrix in chapter 1 , this was a move in intent from left to right for a global industry , with all the attendant risks of such high ambition . |