Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 2 | That 's alright , that 's ok were in the garden |
| 3 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 4 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 5 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 6 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 7 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 8 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 9 | This was in the year when , as a youthful and helmeted fire-watcher , I patrolled the streets at home in Cardiff . |
| 10 | This was in the interests of deniability . |
| 11 | The woman , who gave the name Bernadette , said from their home in Tulse Hill , south London : ‘ Before all this was in the papers John told me he had served Mr Lamont . |
| 12 | This was in the Sun 's report on Monday . |
| 13 | This was in the school hall , and they dragged out a heavy box horse and a creaking contraption made of wood . |
| 14 | All of this was in the hours ahead , for I was now to live through one of the toughest three days and nights I ever experienced . |
| 15 | This was in the spirit of a tradition of respect for literature , as a way to discuss the ills of society . |
| 16 | This was in the mining valleys of Glamorgan where I was born and brought up . |
| 17 | This was in the heart of the Champs Elysées and was a subterranean establishment consisting of a swimming pool , a Turkish bath and a cabaret : |
| 18 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 19 | Yeah well er you see this was in the grounds at Dartington |
| 20 | Some children needed to be fitted with spectacles and this was in the doctor 's opinion ‘ probably best done in London ’ . |
| 21 | This was in the neighbourhood of his humble quarters . |
| 22 | This was in the paper you know |
| 23 | I eventually converted it into a feeder rod ( this was in the era before today 's more suitable weapons ) and it could throw a heavy feeder with ease . |
| 24 | However , all this was in the future and hard to visualise on our first visit . |
| 25 | Do n't know , it does n't seem to be doing anything and what the was that during the week when was in residence one night the dogs barked and he went out to see what was happening and there was a young man who worked in it this was in the pitch dark , was up there taking some of his stuff away . |
| 26 | Lifers were entitled after two years to apply for furlough to maintain contact with their families , but this was in the hands of the police department , not the prison authorities , and was rarely granted — a matter of some concern to the gaol Superintendent . |
| 27 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 28 | This was in the form of the Payroll Master File . |
| 29 | Perhaps this was in the Collector 's mind as he lay there , silent and motionless now that the fever had left him and he was beginning to recover . |
| 30 | This was in the study of pragmatics , a fast-growing and popular new area of research in linguistics , which came out of the controversies about meaning which had dominated linguistics around 1970 . |