Example sentences of "was in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth , perhaps the most important , was in establishing some way of evaluating the material … ( 1971 : 25 . ) |
| 2 | Icke , whose only previous North-East connection was in forecasting that Teesside later amended to Tayside would be under water by Christmas , has been signed as a goalie by Jewson Wessex League club Ryde Sports . |
| 3 | But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism . |
| 4 | When I was in seeing the the banker , and he said to me he said , have you , have you a will made ? |
| 5 | For me , though , the pleasure and amazement was in seeing how many bits you could get out of those once-neatly-assembled packages . |
| 6 | The key was in recognizing it , not letting the moment pass . |
| 7 | He was in riding boots and a pair of immaculate white jodhpurs . |
| 8 | If he was in living in a flat by himself he would n't be having one at all . |
| 9 | So far as the debt was concerned , the first success was in converting most of the short-term , high-interest credit which had stemmed from the wartime issue of government bills to a funded 5 per cent stock in 1784 – 5 . |
| 10 | But the more the revival got under way , the more it responded to Rome 's own ethos , the less accommodating it was in regard to the values of either Protestantism or modern secular , liberal society . |
| 11 | Erm well let's say for example I was in posted in for |
| 12 | The principal purpose of this book is to examine Ronald Reagan 's efforts to deal with these problems ; to examine the techniques he and his staff used as they sought to break free from the ties that bound them ; and to assess how successful Reagan was in mastering the system of government and in achieving his policy objectives . |
| 13 | Where a plaintiff had brought an action in rem , however , his primary interest was in recovering his property , and in recognition of this the jurists devised the clausula arbitraria to assist him . |
| 14 | The one area where nothing seemed to have occurred was in setting up a Social Fund , since the Six had even begun to grasp the nettle of a common agricultural policy , agreeing in January 1962 to introduce common target prices for the most important farm products and a levy on agricultural imports into the EEC . |
| 15 | The plaintiff 's culpability was in setting the scene for the accident . |
| 16 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 17 | There were a variety of difficulties in administering the former Community Charge , one of the main ones was in maintaining an accurate Community Charge Register of all individuals resident within the Region at any particular time . |
| 18 | And it is important to keep as firmly in mind that this is what the reader wants to know , as it was in writing the blueprint detective story to remind oneself constantly that what the reader is looking for is hints towards answering the question " Who did it ? " |
| 19 | It was in trying to forge the necessary alliances and to equip the essential forces that Edward then came into conflict with the laity and the clergy at home . |
| 20 | For all the thought that she had given to his ordinary life , Johnny could have been a milkman , for all she cared , or an Insurance broker working in the City , whose daily brush with danger was in trying to cross the road . |
| 21 | And it was in trying for another way that the CIA let in people like Monzer al-Kassar and , without meaning to , set up the whole Lockerbie scenario . |
| 22 | Brazilian soccer was in mourning this week after a match which had commentators wailing about the worst game ever to be witnessed in the hallowed Maracana Stadium . |
| 23 | A COMMUNITY was in mourning last night after a young cyclist was killed as he rode through his home town . |
| 24 | Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records . |
| 25 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 26 | The Frome was in smelling distance now and through a gap between overhanging houses she caught a glimpse of tall upright masts and rigging . |
| 27 | The nearest he came to winning a round in my book was in sharing the third , after delivering a heavy right hand that briefly staggered Eubank — whose ability to take a punch is well-documented . |
| 28 | In what should have been a single sketch here protracted over two debilitating hours the only observable success was in managing to incite a young child in the audience to enquire with regular insistence : ‘ What 's going on Mum ? ’ |
| 29 | The first was in choosing my family , the second in singling out my grandfather . |
| 30 | The mistake of allied strategists was in imagining that such a regime could possibly be brought to a state of collapse by a decline in popular morale . |