Example sentences of "in [adj] [was/were] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | St. John 's Roman Catholic Church founded in 1138 was formerly the Chapel of the medieval Hospital of St. John . |
| 2 | The reopening of the Halls in 1985 was just the beginning . |
| 3 | The raid on Gay 's The Word bookshop in 1984 was merely the largest and best publicised exercise in State censorship this decade . |
| 4 | Londonderry was chosen as the focus because the religious balance of the city in 1911 was almost the exact inverse of the county , thus providing a rural/urban dimension to the study . |
| 5 | The pay of a sailor in the French navy in 1789 was practically the same as it had been a century before , though during that period prices had almost doubled . |
| 6 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 7 | He had nothing to fear from a Council , and Anselm was able to hold two Councils in the last years of his life ; the first of these in 1102 was certainly the high point in his activity as archbishop . |
| 8 | My view was that we should examine whether the money was reaching those that most needed it and whether the priorities of the system laid down in 1945 were still the same . |
| 9 | At constant prices , the real value of government drug imports in 1989 was only the value in 1980 ( Noormahomed et al , op. cit . ) . |
| 10 | The programme in 1988 was basically the same , and I am sure audience and choirs stood then , as they do now , for the ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus . |
| 11 | Fur example the devaluation of sterling in 1967 was mainly the consequence of higher inflation in the UK over a number of years than that experienced by her major trading partners . |