Example sentences of "was [prep] [art] throes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in 1985 free-market Britain seemed to be outpacing the rest of bank-monitored Europe , which was in the throes of ‘ Eurosclerosis ’ : slow growth thanks to closed markets , protected managers and workers , and backward technology . |
| 2 | Then , as now , the NHS was in the throes of reorganisation and the cry was that extra millions were being wasted on bureaucracy . |
| 3 | But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer . |
| 4 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 5 | Another startling indication that Japan was in the throes of starting a war . |
| 6 | Seventy-five years ago , when the teaching of Russian began at Nottingham , the country was in the throes of revolutionary change . |
| 7 | My mother 's business success had continued and the bungalow was in the throes of an ongoing transformation that would only end some five years later , when the Cliff Top Country House Hotel opened its register for bookings . |
| 8 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the country was in the throes of a year-long wave of strikes and protests against the government 's measures to introduce a more free-market economic system and to privatize state-owned industries . |