Example sentences of "was [adj] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But loyalty to the House of Stewart was strong in the highlands and Graham of Claverhouse raised an army from the clans in support of the restoration of King James .
2 Communist influence was strong in the police and army and they controlled the International Brigade .
3 This observed acidification was greatest in the lakes at high elevation and was of the same magnitude as the current precipitation acidity in the region , that is pH 4.2 ( or 63 u eq/l ) , although mountain-top locations are frequently enveloped in cloud and mist characterized by very low pH values ( e.g. pH 3.6 or 250 u eq/l ) .
4 She blew her nose as daintily as was possible in the circumstances and handed the handkerchief back with a wan smile .
5 Perhaps Grimm devoutly wished that joking was possible in the circumstances ; and would do his best to make it so .
6 They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances .
7 Real income per head of the UK population was lower in the mid-1980s than in eleven other advanced capitalist countries , while even in 1953 only three ( the US , Canada and Sweden ) had been ahead of the UK .
8 She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said .
9 Was that in the papers ? ’
10 Was that in the wages ?
11 Gall bladder emptying in response to graded CCK8 stimulation was impaired in five of 11 patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy , whereas it was normal in the patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ( p<0.01 ) .
12 It was a song with everything : baroque references , long sombre organ solos , and words so opaque that they could mean all things to all people , unless they actually asked what they meant-which was , unless one was very stoned , nothing which was why , for eleven weeks , during that summer it was high in the charts .
13 The stable had lost its star , but there was another in the wings in the shape of Chaplins Club .
14 The little house was empty in the mornings , of course .
15 We did n't meet that night , but we went to a restaurant together a few weeks later and he said he was interested in the scripts .
16 Furthermore , Morgan was interested in the patterns which kinship terms create , not just for themselves , but because he believed they reflected the system of marriage with which they had originally been used .
17 Weber was interested in the reasons for the emergence of capitalism in western Europe .
18 Mr. Perot was interested in the properties on behalf of himself and his family .
19 Milgram was interested in the effects of authority on human behaviour .
20 He was interested in the hamlets and villages on the fringe of the deer country , the cottages and the farmhouses that might provide bases for dedicated stalkers .
21 I was interested in the points that the hon. Gentleman raised .
22 But he was interested in the chants .
23 The challenge of the environment was the key to progress — yet neither Lankester nor MacBride was interested in the details of local adaptation .
24 He thought he was interested in the arts .
25 I was interested in the waves of immigration into Britain both pre-historically and later , and I kept on looking for proposals which would represent this both in multi-cultural and archaeological terms .
26 Matthies ' group , like ours , was interested in the glycoproteins , which they had shown to increase in synthesis during various forms of more conventional training procedures in rats , and Jork had scanned the biochemical literature to find specific inhibitors of glycoprotein synthesis .
27 Jonadab had already hired a new third lad , or ‘ thoddy ’ as they were known , and there was little more for them to do in the town : neither was interested in the attractions of sideshows or stalls .
28 This time they added 70 , played attacking strokes about as freely as was sensible in the conditions , and dug out or skipped a fair few difficult balls .
29 The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises .
30 By ELISA 2 , the prevalence of anti-hepatitis C virus positivity was similar in the subgroups with isolated ANA-H or SMA-AA ; by contrast , all the eight patients positive for both SMAA-AA and ANA-H were anti-hepatitis C virus negative .
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