Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply thought I should warn you that they were effectively in a garret … |
| 2 | Six died he were , he were only in a week |
| 3 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 4 | Where clients were already in an institution , or about to be admitted , when the development officers received their names as referrals , they generally accepted that there was little the Home Support Project could do . |
| 5 | But they were usually in a minority . |
| 6 | James Knights told me that he and his mate were once in a fight with two Burton men , and his mate — a Halesworth man — died in his lodgings two days later . |
| 7 | We were once in a dug-out , I recollect : there were only owd bits o' wood on the top of it . |
| 8 | If the Liberal-SDP Alliance were ever in a position to implement electoral reform , a reformed and strengthened second chamber , and legal limits on the sovereignty of Parliament , then we could find ourselves with a constitution which entrenched the middle ground and which offered a democracy of dazzling choice but no decision , and a less-accountable government than that which we currently enjoy within the established constitution . |
| 9 | A large number of those jobs would be destroyed if the Labour party were ever in a position to put its policies into practice . |
| 10 | I wish to explore those proposals , lay bare the dangers which lurk beneath them and identify the threat not only to parliamentary representation from Scotland in this House but to the economic well-being of Scotland if the Labour party were ever in a position to exercise in Scotland the kind of powers that it would give to such an assembly . |
| 11 | It is also true to say that if the Opposition parties were ever in a position to put their policies into effect , that self-employment record would inevitably be gravely harmed and the cause of women in particular would suffer much more . |
| 12 | I am convinced that if the hon. Gentleman were ever in a position of responsibility in the House — the likelihood of which is becoming increasingly remote — he would also find himself advised that it would be foolish to put before the House proposals which in a few weeks or months might fall outside the law . |
| 13 | The minds of the legislators were still in a state of confusion . |
| 14 | To be honest the atmosphere was one of secret intimacy where most of the audience were still in a state of suspended disbelief that this was happening . |
| 15 | Distinctions were soon lost , and after a spell of being known as Alba the country became once and for all Scotland , though some of its boundaries were still in a state of flux . |
| 16 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 17 | During my travels across the Siberian Steppes , some years ago , I chanced upon a team of Russian palaeontologists , who were clearly in a state of heightened exuberance . |
| 18 | They were also in a test situation , and were aware that the passages they were reading were to be followed by questions . |
| 19 | They would have been close at hand my Lord erm I just do n't know , it may be that , I think they were probably in a vehicle also close at hand ready to . |
| 20 | And you were probably in a hurry too . ’ |
| 21 | A large proportion of the miniatures are attributable to known artists such as Jean Bourdichon : four sheets by this artist were originally in a Book of Hours belonging to Henry VII of England and are among the great finds of the collection . |
| 22 | They were now in a position which needed large efforts on their part , as much in renewing and adapting the antislavery argument as in practical action . |
| 23 | The US army were now in a mess . |
| 24 | Sir Nicholas Hunt of Eurotunnel , writing in Annales des Mines , claimed that the Kent Impact Study had done much to reassure local opinion about the Tunnel and that the doubters were now in a minority . |
| 25 | It seemed that both parts of his duchy were now in a state of unrest . |
| 26 | Yesterday Sampras and Courier were almost in a world of their own . |
| 27 | Yesterday Sampras and Courier were almost in a world of their own . |
| 28 | Prior to starting their fourth album , the Mondays were characteristically in a state of organised chaos . |
| 29 | Based in Leeds/Bradford , Jock and keyboardist John were previously in a band called The Word — second keyboardist/bass player Mick joining in '89 from another local outfit . |
| 30 | But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages . |