Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull . |
| 2 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |
| 3 | To recap , the winners have been men who were in internal labour markets in the big-name companies and the enterprise group networks . |
| 4 | All seven of them at table together had shrunk the kitchen , and they were in noisy , exuberant enjoyment of boiled beef and carrots . |
| 5 | They varied between 20–60 hectares in size , were situated at an elevation of around 300m , and were in shallow stony soils . |
| 6 | In April 1973 Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese army , and soon all South Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia were in Communist hands . |
| 7 | By 1963 there were over 2 million members in the PKI while 12.5 million were in Communist mass organisations . |
| 8 | Of those councillors who were twin-tracking at the time of the Widdicombe Committee , 58 per cent were teachers or lecturers , 12 per cent were manual workers , 16 per cent were in professional jobs ( social workers , planners and so on and 14 per cent were administrators ( Widdicombe Research , Vol. iii:34 ) . |
| 9 | Have you got anything about children 's toys , cos they were in terrible short supply |
| 10 | Sinn Fein were contesting the seat and a tricolour , the flag of the Irish Republic , was flown in the window of the Sinn Fein election office in Divis St. Although the Flags and Emblems Act made such displays illegal , the RUC had often ignored them if they were in nationalist areas . |
| 11 | ‘ If we were in Catholic west Belfast instead of Protestant north Belfast we would be treated differently . ’ |
| 12 | Out of the cup , thrashed 5–0 by Aberdeen , trailing badly in the league , Hearts , who had started their season by securing Joe Jordan as manager , faced widespread press accusations that they too were in financial disarray . |
| 13 | The Beaverbrook papers were in financial trouble , and Trafalgar beat the competition to buy them , with its main interest being the asset value of the group 's properties . |
| 14 | The court heard all three men were in financial difficulties . |
| 15 | These aforementioned studies were in non-diabetic hypertensive subjects but raised the possibility that similar effects might occur in diabetics . |
| 16 | That is , they were more highly concentrated in the older staple industries which were in acute and widely recognized need of restructuring , the labour shortage was most acute in some of the highly skilled sectors of these very industries , and their loss would be acutely felt , at least in the short term . |
| 17 | Mr McNeill 's statements arose as he sought to counter allegations that a very high over-representation of children with English as a second language were in acute categories of special needs classes because the region had failed to judge their intelligence accurately . |
| 18 | Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 . |
| 19 | As late as 1926 90.9 per cent of all inhabitants in the guberniia were in rural locations , one of the highest percentages for European Russia . |
| 20 | In 1913 there were 11,000 post and telecommunications offices , of which only 3,000 were in rural localities . |
| 21 | This contrasted with Britain where most of the part-time farmers were in rural employment and could obtain time away fairly easily . |
| 22 | The 1976 English House Condition Survey found that some 28 per cent of all unfit dwellings in England but only 23 per cent of total stock were in rural areas , defined to include settlements of up to 1,000 dwellings . |
| 23 | The majority were in rural areas and the traffic densities were so low that there was no prospect of making them pay . |
| 24 | The Danzig authorities immediately began to drag out the renewal of the Accord and , hoping perhaps to stop the visit altogether , told the British that all procedures were in temporary suspension and that this would prevent the Poles from greeting the British in the agreed manner . |
| 25 | Certainly the popular press fuelled doubt , focusing as it did upon particular schools which were in temporary disarray , and the failure of a few teachers was applied indiscriminately to the whole workforce . |
| 26 | Many even of the larger societies were in temporary financial difficulties by the 1880s due to their willingness to pay long-term sick benefit as an effective old-age pension to aged members past regular work . |
| 27 | Most participants in special programmes simultaneously answered that they were in temporary jobs because they had been unable to find permanent work ; a small proportion , consisting mainly of YTS participants , saw their places on the scheme as jobs which were temporary because they involved a contract for training . |
| 28 | At the end of 1987 25,000 homeless households were in temporary accommodation ; double the number at the end of 1984 . |
| 29 | At that stage Warrington were in complete command , leading 18–2 . |
| 30 | These directions were in complete contradiction to his old habits and Alexander found they were successful in bringing about the change that he had sought for so long . |