Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I looked up , at the party , you were in the arms of another man . |
| 2 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 3 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 4 | The HN Unit Specifications were in the colleges by August 1989 . |
| 5 | A further 11 are listed as serving soldiers or seamen ( some of the other bridegrooms were in the services at the time of marriage , but since their civilian occupations were also recorded they have been classified differently ) . |
| 6 | It was such sayings as these that inspired the dervishes some of whom were in the armies of the Khalif and impressed the British soldiers as no other warriors ever did . |
| 7 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 8 | A brief list of these phrases which were in the documents in 1121 will show their relevance : |
| 9 | They were in the trenches by Christmas 1915 and eventually , from July 1916 , in the carnage of the Somme . |
| 10 | Areas where the workforce extended their influence were in the procedures for promotion , where the power of managerial prerogative was weakened and increasing weight was given to seniority and skill tests ; in joint determination of rosters tor footplate and train staff ; in the ending of split shifts ; and in the reform of the authoritarian disciplinary system . |
| 11 | The submarines ’ main areas of activity were in the waters around the British Isles and in much of the Mediterranean . |
| 12 | The huge arrangements of garden and wild flowers decorating the rooms were in the positions in which Anna and Charlotte would have placed them . |
| 13 | The most common problems were in the areas of occupation , socially embarrassing behaviour , use of public amenities , managing own affairs and psychotic symptoms . |
| 14 | In an appreciation , Emeritus Prof Robert Kenedi said yesterday : HIS pioneering initiatives , documented by his many publications , were in the areas of tissue immunology , burns , bio-engineering and various aspects of plastic surgery , including its history . |
| 15 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 16 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 17 | The operation was completely successful , and the undamaged clothes were in the shops at the designated time . |
| 18 | Capitalist activity in the nineteenth century , for the reasons discussed above , was mainly associated with new types of activity , such as cocoa production or mineral mining , whether these were in the hands of European or African entrepreneurs . |
| 19 | They were in the hands of vested interests , not in possession of the facts , ’ said Mr Roberts . |
| 20 | A nuclear war could only last a matter of days and would be fought with the weapons that were in the hands of the military at the time ; there would be no question of re-supply , so British operational independence would not be jeopardized by buying US missiles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In fact , when the bonds were redeemed in 1983 the 280 bonds issued in 1907 were in the hands of only 47 people who had the power to elect two-thirds of the committee to run a club with over 600 members ! |
| 23 | This right was often exercised and mean that by 1983 many were in the hands of individuals with no interest in golf , but who had inherited bonds by assignment through parents or grandparents . |
| 24 | As with a number of other regions , a number of these early mill sites were in the hands of religious foundations , such as the Benedictines and Cistercian Orders who , up to the time of their suppression in the 16th century , owned as many mills as any of the estates or manors in Britain . |
| 25 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 26 | In 1975 , Wilcox listed seventy-one newspapers in independent black African countries , of which all but twenty were in the hands of governments or ruling parties . |
| 27 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 28 | Diagnosis and treatment were in the hands of the medical experts who held the franchise on knowledge . |
| 29 | By 1427 , much of Maine and Anjou , names whose familiarity stems from their frequent appearance on the list of English diplomatic demands , were in the hands of the English , now advancing southwards . |
| 30 | Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal . |