Example sentences of "was in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed ( see , for instance , our Interim Report , 1988 ) that , right up to the moment when the repatriation of the Cossacks began , there remained a complete and unresolved contradiction between this insistence by 5 Corps and the reiterated insistence by AFHQ that force was in no circumstances to be used .
2 I think he was in a munitions factory somewhere near Baghdad and the stress had certainly precipitated quite a serious heart condition and that was under a relatively peaceful situation , so if there was any sign of war out there that would obviously be tenfold .
3 The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement .
4 Yesterday Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates Mrs Wilson was in the ladies at Club Lucy 's in Darlington when a young woman asked who she was .
5 ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) .
6 ‘ I was in The Specials in 1980.
7 And no doubt a sensible formula would have been devised in order to tell the jury that which was in the circumstances agreed to be appropriate .
8 To put the matter in its statutory form , we do not accept that the barrister was in the circumstances guilty of any such unreasonable act or omission which could found a wasted costs order .
9 that the order was in the circumstances of this case properly made by the registrar .
10 Will he explain exactly when it was discovered that that material was in the bags sent to Wandsworth prison and when the search for it started ?
11 It was very cold and the grey gloom of Paddington and Euston was in the faces of the people who stood near us and of the soldiers who dragged their rifles and kit-bags from one platform to another .
12 Prudhoe , who was never seriously troubled in the first half the closest he came to conceding a goal was when the under pressure Kevan Smith had to touch behind a dangerous cross by Mark Stuart was in the wars shortly after half time .
13 Ajayi was in the games room still , hunkered over the small table in her furs , huge as a bear , perched on a small stool all but hidden beneath the furs and cloths which smothered her old frame .
14 Honest ! — Besides , it was in the papers was n't it ?
15 ‘ Well , he would have to be , would n't he ? because it was in the papers only last week that one of them was sent along the line to Durham for fighting .
16 It was in the papers .
17 ‘ As it was the possibility of her resigning was in the papers for about three weeks . ’
18 The woman , who gave the name Bernadette , said from their home in Tulse Hill , south London : ‘ Before all this was in the papers John told me he had served Mr Lamont .
19 It was in the papers and on the television . ’
20 Remember the other month , it was in the papers , was n't it ? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch ?
21 By next day his picture was in the papers .
22 The blank pages in my diary testify as much , and in addition that I was too apathetic to continue recording just how bored I was in the periods between my bouts of organising activity .
23 When out photographer called , Sunny Jim was in the proceeds of receiving a pudding basin haircut … which was cut short by the arrival of an authentic but unwanted shower of rain .
24 I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves .
25 What happened when he faced his wife and when the husband of the lady in question , who was in the Forces , heard of her escapade , did n't reach the papers .
26 Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it .
27 This person had got one son about twelve , and her husband was in the Forces as well .
28 And Darren from Stoke on Trent was in the forces for three years and he did n't see any bullying at all .
29 No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles .
30 Oh rumour has it that her husband was in the forces
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