Example sentences of "was [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father had died at somewhere called Duc Co that was somewhere in the Central Highlands in Vietnam . |
| 2 | His game then deteriorated and he was rarely in the top fifty in a tournament , let alone the top ten . |
| 3 | This phrase has been described as confusing and was so in the present case by Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 4 | It was all in the darting style of their manager , Ossie Ardiles , without the penetrating vision . |
| 5 | It was all in the local newspaper . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was only in the late 1980s that public expenditure as a proportion of the national product fell below that which the government had inherited in 1979 . |
| 14 | It was only in the late 1890's that the company extended its activities into gold mining . |
| 15 | These materials had not always been associated ; it was only in the nineteenth century that iron smelting came to the coalfields because of technological and economic convenience . |
| 16 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 17 | St John 's , Antigua did , in fact , see something approaching a Test match , and it was only in the final hour that England lost . |
| 18 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 19 | It was only in the mid twelfth century that the growing concentration of mercantile wealth led to the recognition of the oligarchy as the permanent government , which ruled Venice throughout the later centuries of her glory and her decline . |
| 20 | The Edinburgh men had dominated the opening 40 minutes , but it was only in the 39th minute that No8 Dave McIvor popped over the Jed line for his side 's only try . |
| 21 | But it was only in the 1950s that Greece set out to build a serious manufacturing sector — and immediately , unlike the Koreas and Spains of the world , found it was not capable of it . |
| 22 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 23 | ‘ Every time Subotica looked to have her beaten she came at him again and it was only in the last two strides that she lost . |
| 24 | It was only in the last six or seven years of his life that he discovered that his talents lay elsewhere : in polemics , above all , and in what Waugh in his letter of thanks for Animal Farm had called ingenious and delightful allegory . |
| 25 | ‘ It was only in the last years that you knew us . ’ |
| 26 | It was only in the last week or so that the two of them had fallen out . |
| 27 | It was only in the 1850s , while Prussia was ‘ filling in ’ the gaps of its network by connecting up places like Danzig , that Warsaw received its first major rail connections . |
| 28 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 29 | It was only in the continuing silence that it came to her that her defenceless back was presented to the rest of the room . |
| 30 | It was only in the 1930s , in Oxford , that lysozyme was isolated and crystallized , and its exact mode of action determined , as described later in this chapter . |