Example sentences of "was in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His answer was that the village was in no worse state than when he bought the estate and that he had spent over £3000 on improvements though the villagers were legally liable to the cost . |
| 2 | Thirdly , in Britain the dynamic industries surged ahead not of a generally underdeveloped economy but of one which was in no real sense " pre-industrial " . |
| 3 | It did n't really hurt her : even when he had her part her legs to apply the flap to the tender inside of her thighs , she was in no real pain . |
| 4 | Since he did n't like the golf course either he was in no real frame of mind to ‘ spreadeagle the field ’ , as a well-known golf pundit invariably and irritatingly puts it on television . |
| 5 | She kept wishing her mother would have a sister for her , but Jean Keith was in no great hurry to oblige . |
| 6 | Ironically this transformation was in no small degree the consequence of the increasing technicality of the law to which the clerical judges themselves had so fertilely contributed by their advice , judgements and writings ; it had now become necessary to recruit judges from those who had served their apprenticeship pleading in the courts and had perhaps sought instruction from the law lectures and books which were then being provided . |
| 7 | This was in no small part a remnant of ILP influence from the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 8 | This was in no small measure due to his industry , both in correspondence overseas and practical work in the Chelsea Garden . |
| 9 | His achievements in sport made him something of a celebrity at school and his status was in no small way boosted by the teachers ' approval . |
| 10 | However , by the end of the century it was in no better health than the older , eighteenth-century bodies : the 1902 Parliamentary Breakfast saw only thirteen MPs present . |
| 11 | It is nevertheless important to recognize that the conflict was in no serious sense the product of forces extraneous to Spain . |
| 12 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 13 | She was in no fit state to receive a call from a gentleman . |
| 14 | But he was in no fit state . |
| 15 | He was in no fit state to know . |
| 16 | I was in no fit state to move a muscle . |
| 17 | Yet Germany was in no conceivable danger from Russia , unless already at war with France . |
| 18 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 19 | So far he had not even registered her presence , and she was in no particular hurry to enlighten him . |
| 20 | In contrast Mr. Hargreaves ' general stores was in a tiny cottage — again the front room had been adapted . |
| 21 | It was in a tiny square of the Old City . |
| 22 | He was in a tiny Auster , ill-equipped for the buffeting it was getting . |
| 23 | The shower cubicle was in a tiny room with a basin and toilet off the bedroom , and a luxurious steam built up quickly in spite of the efforts of the extractor fan to draw it away . |
| 24 | She was in a narrow passage that crookedly connected two busy streets . |
| 25 | When the first girl was engaged their first encounter was in a narrow passage . |
| 26 | It was in a narrow side street and there were only a few people watching . |
| 27 | It was in a literal sense the ‘ last resort ’ ( dernier ressort ) . |
| 28 | But until recently British Steel decided that their iron and steel works at Scunthorpe was in a suitable position and they enlarged it . |
| 29 | The prison Governor says he was in a disturbed state . |
| 30 | Some of the shortcomings of the with-profit system , designed as it was in a bygone era , are all too obvious , but some , unfortunately , only become apparent when it is too late . |