Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His views were modified by his son Reginald , who maintained that the features which suggested Mongolian origins were ‘ accidental and superficial ’ , being associated with others which were in no way characteristic of the Mongol race ( Journal of Medical Science , vol. lii , 1906 , pp. 188–9 ) . |
| 2 | These were in no way representative of the national picture , since relatively few authorities had adopted care programming at the outset of our enquiry . |
| 3 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 4 | This were in a school playground . |
| 5 | They were in a sailing boat , as far out as the trawler , both of them older , eighteen or nineteen . |
| 6 | Imagine the cells as if they were in a spectator stand . |
| 7 | They were in a lounge bar . |
| 8 | The crack pilots were in a hospitality chalet at the Hampshire show site celebrating a successful rehearsal for their first public performance . |
| 9 | I think he was pretending we were in a TV movie . |
| 10 | ‘ We were in a Stockton recording studio at the time when the MMB asked the guy who runs it for ideas of music and we were suggested , ’ says Meadows who with schooldays chum Anthony Roe are the lead vocals . |
| 11 | If we were in a zero growth situation and we still had all this demand , maybe we would have introduced the charges . |
| 12 | ‘ They were in a canvas bag . |
| 13 | Not if you were in a Circle train though , Kevin said . |
| 14 | you were in a football team ? |
| 15 | They were in a rock band something like that . |
| 16 | As a captain , Ken , often resembling an unfit Oswald Mosley , would blatantly push his fellow team mates off the ball if they were in a goal-scoring position , and take the glory for himself . |
| 17 | An increase in the noise level and glimpses of exotic vegetables told her that they were in a market street , and it seemed to the over-sensitive Meredith that Lucenzo was almost continually returning greetings and brushing off sympathetic offers of help . |
| 18 | Such firms may act overtly ( and illegally ) or covertly ( still illegally , but hard to detect ) as if they were in a monopoly situation . |
| 19 | They were in a train crash , you see … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They were in a street shelter and it got flattened , ’ he said . |
| 21 | If you were in a wine bar with ferns , mellowed out on red wine and having a really sloppy kissy kissy lovey dovey ooghy woogy dinner with your lover and Blueboy came on as the cabaret , you would go berserk and slash open their gizzards with the cake fork . |
| 22 | They were in a wine bar not far from the studios , and every time the door opened Preston looked up nervously in case it was one of their colleagues , or the Corsican with a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 23 | The Cadders , who were in a hire car with their two young sons , were the only witnesses . |
| 24 | Fortunately , the Danish police were in a Ghandi mood . |
| 25 | Now Spike , apart from being an excellent navigator , was also something of an amateur Met man and would quote yards of Pick ( an authority on Met forecasting ) at anyone who would listen , and at first he could not believe that we were in an icing situation . |
| 26 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 27 | Well now , because we were in the Ipswich Borough Police , we were in the fortunate position of knowing that we would serve our full thirty years in Ipswich , which enabled us to buy our own houses through building society . |
| 28 | Tom confirmed our assumption that we were in the Beka'a Valley saying that Carton , an Arabic speaker , told him that some of the food wrappers had Baalbek addresses on them . |
| 29 | Er but er and , and the they negotiated er a payment er for working in these er cold conditions for the men who were in the machine shop . |
| 30 | On these cassettes you will hear the voice of the hypnotherapist , who will help you to achieve the desired state , then give you the same suggestions that he or she would make if you were in the consulting room ; finally , the hypnotherapist will wake you up again . |