Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist Benjamin Haydon was already £600 in debt when he heard that the Royal Academy would not after all be buying his painting Macbeth for 500 guineas . |
| 2 | ‘ When you consider the players on the pitch today and their ability , he was just miles in front , ’ said the manager . |
| 3 | In some patients , there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia . |
| 4 | There was always girls in trouble and lots of fights and chaos . |
| 5 | He was also instructor in geology at the Royal Geographical Society and lectured aspiring explorers in the subject . |
| 6 | In March 1898 Leslie Johnson , the general treasurer , reported to an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee that the union was roughly £pound1,600 in debt and that the Glasgow , Dublin , Cork , Swansea , Aberdeen and Ardrossan branches had been closed with wages owing to twelve or more branch officials . |
| 7 | In return for this support in times of need , it demanded contributions from everyone , in labour and in wealth , although the latter was often payment in kind . |
| 8 | ‘ I was really getting stuck into him , but it was mainly tongue in cheek . |
| 9 | Indeed their protest against restrictions on the individual was almost anarchist in tone . |
| 10 | Jesus who Himself spoke of ‘ the creation ’ could also have rightly spoken in terms of ‘ my creation ’ for as the apostle Paul wrote ‘ by Him were all things CREATED that are in heaven ( was there evolution in heaven ? ) and that are in earth … all things were CREATED by Him and for Him . ’ |
| 11 | That was why investment in training would be the ‘ most important ’ priority of all . |
| 12 | But the rhetoric of those who defended government policy in the early 1680s was explicitly legalist in nature . |