Example sentences of "[was/were] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 2 | The dead , all from Thailand , were in their late teens and early twenties . |
| 3 | He says most of the lads that were out there were in their late teens , early 20 's and for them it was an adventure to go out to the tropics — then when you realise what it was about — well it 's marked us for life there 's no two ways about it . |
| 4 | The defendant had raped and molested both girls from the time they were 11 or 12 until they were in their late teens . |
| 5 | After getting out of his car he was attacked by the youths , who were in their late teens and wore dark clothing . |
| 6 | Although there were few States where the Republicans were as deeply entrenched as the Democrats were in their southern strongholds , there were several where the need for large welfare state payments to win votes for a marginal government was low . |
| 7 | Other developments , to become increasingly portentous as time went on , primarily the moves towards stricter control over police powers of arrest and questioning of suspects , and the inauguration of an independent prosecution service , were in their embryonic stages . |
| 8 | Once the elephants were in their new sanctuary , called Lebong Hitam , the army would dig a trench , with one very steep side and a solar powered electric fence on the other , to keep them from returning to their old haunts . |
| 9 | The stairs and bannisters were the ones she knew , the door to the sitting room and the one into the kitchen were in their familiar places but there the resemblance ended . |
| 10 | Details of 53 schemes were collected , 51 already in use at the time of the review in 1983–4 and two of which were in their final stage of development and have since come into operation . |
| 11 | Our Oceanis 320s were in their second year . |
| 12 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 13 | The two boys were in their white underpants and nothing else , dancing to the music coming from Deuce 's tape recorder . |
| 14 | By 1962 , when the children were in their sixteenth year , the number still resident in Great Britain was 4,720 , of whom 3,626 ( 76.8 per cent ) were given further tests . |
| 15 | This reflects the influence of cultural and social factors as it was totally unacceptable for women to smoke when these women were in their formative years in the interwar period . |
| 16 | While they were in their last port of call , the Volunteer , Tommy even disappeared out of the pub followed by the barmaid , a pert , slightly plump girl called Rose . |
| 17 | All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Reifenhauser K.G. Maschinenfabrik where discovery procedures were in their third year , the defendant having already answered two sets of interrogatories without taking any point about the applicability of the Convention . |
| 19 | And we 'd got two hundred and then the dyers they were in their own union er at er at that time they 'd perhaps got er er thirty in the dye-house . |
| 20 | He avoided the bullying tactics his son was to employ ; yet the results of his modest pursuits were in their own way as remarkable as those of Philip Augustus ' domineering interventions . |
| 21 | These advances have been accorded full acceptance with ready abandonment of firmly held convictions on all those matters which are now covered by the sciences , and which were in their earlier interpretations considered unquestionably true . |
| 22 | ‘ You were in your own country , among your own kind when you felt that compulsion and made your demands on me . |
| 23 | you said that you 'd be sitting round the fire , but wh when you were when you were in your own house |
| 24 | Her hands were in his dark hair , her mouth kissing him with all the love and desire she had suppressed for so long . |
| 25 | When confident , few drivers were in his ultimate class , technically ; when unconfident , he could be quite ordinary . |
| 26 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 27 | David protested a little at her going , but assured her it would be no trouble to take her home , and some fifteen minutes later , after she had said her thank-yous and good-byes and collected her belongings , they were in his super-charged sports car roaring along the lanes . |
| 28 | But equally , Gale gives no indication that he himself has understood how obviously ridiculous Lamarck 's theories of physics and chemistry were in his own day — and it was on these that his theory of evolution was based . |
| 29 | He had picked up a book and was standing there , reading it with great concentration — just as if he were in his own armchair at home . |
| 30 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |