Example sentences of "was [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was altogether in a parlous state : the weather was bad , there was no water in the flat ; he did not care to go out at nights and was seeing fewer people . |
| 2 | His architectural work was predominantly in a neo-classical manner with the use of domed segmental projections , examples being Doddington Hall , Cheshire , 1777–98 ; Hooton Hall , Cheshire , 1778–88 , since demolished ; Herstmonceux Place , Sussex , 1777 ; and Belmont Park , Kent , 1787–92 . |
| 3 | Here was somewhere in a meditative limbo between earthly chaos and spiritual ecstasy ; we could have been on the crystal lake of the Apocalypse , half-way to paradise … |
| 4 | His father had died at somewhere called Duc Co that was somewhere in the Central Highlands in Vietnam . |
| 5 | His game then deteriorated and he was rarely in the top fifty in a tournament , let alone the top ten . |
| 6 | This phrase has been described as confusing and was so in the present case by Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 7 | However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh . |
| 8 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 9 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 10 | But the hard work was all in a good cause . |
| 11 | It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise . |
| 12 | But it was all in a good cause . |
| 13 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 14 | However , it was all in a good cause as the sponsored walk organised by accounts supervisor Andrena Cowan , raised £1,300 towards the cost of an Ultra Sound Scanner . |
| 15 | Yet it was all in a losing cause because England still finished the fourth day of the second Test 43 runs in arrears at 231 for eight in their second innings . |
| 16 | It was all in the darting style of their manager , Ossie Ardiles , without the penetrating vision . |
| 17 | It was all in the local newspaper . |
| 18 | This effect was less in the intention-to-treat analysis : 3/30 vs 9/30 ( relative risk=0.33 , CI=0.10–1.11 , p=0.106 ) . |
| 19 | Mr Fyfe added : ‘ If we are successful in this case , it will be due to Alfred 's courage and determination to put his evidence down on record , even though he was obviously in a great deal of distress . ’ |
| 20 | He was obviously in a worse state than I had imagined because to Toby a bar invariably meant a sponsor 's tent where the booze flowed like water , and at no expense to the consumer . |
| 21 | She felt almost sorry for Professor M. L. Vaughan , who was obviously in the same rank as her self-confident great-uncle , and differed from him on almost every point . |
| 22 | I believe that my account of events is a good deal nearer the truth than some that have since been published : but then I was perhaps in a better position than some other observers to know what was going on . |
| 23 | But it was perhaps in the great days of immigration that the station acted as a centre of awareness for the existing population viewing their new fellow citizens , and for the immigrants discovering the no less real inequalities of their adopted country . |
| 24 | Robert Jones sparkled , Tony Clement was constantly in the thick of things at fullback , whether kicking long and meaningfully or surging through on the counter-attack . |
| 25 | He could see that it was getting late , and ultimately he was only in a rotten rock ‘ n ’ roll band called Must n't Grumble which sounded like Hawkwind . |
| 26 | We began to discuss what should be done and how I would manage to support the children , and if , from time to time , I had the feeling that something was wrong , it was only in a distant , elusive way , as if I was listening to someone playing a piano on the other side of the road and hearing occasionally , but only occasionally , a wrong note . |
| 27 | All these months of coming to terms with Mark 's death , of setting her own life back on its tracks , even if it was only in a superficial way , and somehow , just when Robyn had thought she had it all under control , had regained her equilibrium , this arrogant man had appeared and set her world in turmoil with his derision and scorn . |
| 28 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 29 | It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began . |
| 30 | It was only in the late eighteenth century that spelling became standardised in a way that we would recognise today , and as late as 1900 you can read variant words that surprise us rather — shew for show , for example . |