Example sentences of "was [adj] in the [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 | She blew her nose as daintily as was possible in the circumstances and handed the handkerchief back with a wan smile . |
| 4 | Perhaps Grimm devoutly wished that joking was possible in the circumstances ; and would do his best to make it so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The little house was empty in the mornings , of course . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Weber was interested in the reasons for the emergence of capitalism in western Europe . |
| 13 | Mr. Perot was interested in the properties on behalf of himself and his family . |
| 14 | Milgram was interested in the effects of authority on human behaviour . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was interested in the points that the hon. Gentleman raised . |
| 17 | But he was interested in the chants . |
| 18 | The challenge of the environment was the key to progress — yet neither Lankester nor MacBride was interested in the details of local adaptation . |
| 19 | He thought he was interested in the arts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In contrast , the association between the DD genotype and myocardial infarction was similar in the groups defined according to the median of cigarette consumption , ApoAl , Lp ( a ) or fibrinogen . |
| 27 | It is known that he was proficient in the sciences of the time , as well as being a considerable linguist . |
| 28 | Giving priority to developmental work was appropriate in the circumstances of Nottinghamshire in the mid-eighties and still remains so in many respects . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeals , that failure to observe the proper procedures for service was not necessarily fatal to the lawfulness of a committal order ; that the court , in exercising its discretion under section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , had to take into account the interests not only of the contemnor but also of those affected by the contempt and the need to maintain its authority , and that where an irregularity caused the contemnor no injustice the committal order should not be set aside ; that since , in the first appeal , there was no requirement for personal service of a committal order so that the only irregularity was that the court , rather than the local authority had served a copy of the order on the contemnor 's solicitors , the contemnor had suffered no injustice and the order would stand ; and that , in the second appeal , since the husband was fully aware of the findings of contempt and had not sought to challenge them or the sentence imposed , he had suffered no injustice and it was appropriate in the circumstances to affirm the order despite the irregularities which had occurred ( post , pp. 822B–C , F — 823B , 823C–E , 824B–D , F , 825C–D , 826D–F ) . |
| 30 | In pursuit of a professional legal career Goddard was prominent in the affairs of King 's Lynn over three decades — freeman in 1645 , deputy recorder from 1645 to 1651 , and then recorder ( succeeding Miles Corbet , q.v. ) until the Restoration . |