Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 2 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 3 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 4 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 5 | However , in southern Australia , there are some southern rain-forest species still with large diaspores , and fossil evidence suggests that the extinct cassowary relations , the Dromornithidae , were there in the Pleistocene . |
| 6 | Were they in a like condition ? |
| 7 | And perhaps they would be now were they in a full democracy — one that embraced the interests and votes of all the citizens . |
| 8 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 9 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 10 | After all , Teddy once insisted on taking a dip in Southend to prove there was nothing in the European Commission 's condemnation of the beach . |
| 11 | But there was nothing in the shifting canyons of frozen carbon dioxide to tell her . |
| 12 | But there was nothing in the available forensic evidence to prove that Libya was the sole author of the atrocity or even among the prime movers . |
| 13 | And there was nothing in the early editions , anyway . |
| 14 | But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical . |
| 15 | There was nothing in the original Bill about academic freedom and universities were to be permitted to dismiss senior staff in order to replace them with younger and cheaper people . |
| 16 | There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong . |
| 17 | After a while the road ran out and there was nothing in the bleak landscape but loose boulders , rocks , yaks and wild asses . |
| 18 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 19 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |
| 20 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 21 | He was something in the Civil Service . ’ |
| 22 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 23 | was he in a good mood ? |
| 24 | Was he in a bad temper when he got up again ? |
| 25 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 26 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 27 | Who was it in the red suit ? |
| 28 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 29 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 30 | Nor was it in the romantic tradition that the cultivation of your own emotional development , the habits of seasoned and trade introspection , are really what the poet needs . |