Example sentences of "was in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first task is to separate out cultivators , who are defined as landowners or tenants whose livelihood was in agriculture , usually the production of rice . |
| 2 | The one area which the Rome Treaty had ignored , but where the Six did create a common policy , was in agriculture . |
| 3 | But then he appeared to undermine that position by urging critics to question whether it was in agriculture 's interest to unravel the agreement . |
| 4 | I sa , I was sat there and and then we was in maths , like the lesson before and I was going Zena , I do n't wan na do P E ! |
| 5 | What there was in Genesis was a clear statement concerning the Creator Spirit hovering over the waters , and this provided the model for Van Helmont 's conception of matter , with water as its primary form . |
| 6 | Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 . |
| 7 | CENTRAL Office was in disarray , the morning coffee soured by the sound of Cecil Parkinson on Radio 4 mounting a thinly disguised attack on the Tory campaign . |
| 8 | The social life of the island was in disarray . |
| 9 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |
| 10 | This , of course , does not mean that the Library Association 's Code of Professional Conduct was in disarray or no longer credible . |
| 11 | We had a terrible time administering the company , which we had bought very cheaply and which was in disarray . |
| 12 | Beyond the traditional Mercian heartland there are signs that Aethelbald 's imperium had disintegrated and that ‘ the Mercian polity … was in disarray ’ . |
| 13 | American policy was in disarray over the appropriate response to the communist threat in the small South-East Asian state of Laos . |
| 14 | A new regime behind bars The prison system in independent Latvia was in disarray so it called in a troubleshooter from Scotland to help . |
| 15 | ‘ The first time I ever saw him was in frankfurt . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 17 | The first was in prayer . |
| 18 | She was in prayer . |
| 19 | A few minutes before 5pm on Sunday , December 1st , all France it seemed was either holding its breath or , like team captain , Yannick Noah , was in prayer , as Forget , who had been well beaten in the opening rubber of the match by Andre Agassi , prepared to serve what was to be the final game of the 1991 competition . |
| 20 | Yet the sequel to the story makes it quite plain that this appalling feast of destruction was in accordance with God 's will ( ch. |
| 21 | This was in accordance with the advice of senior officers , including town clerk John Cobley . |
| 22 | The family , as Josephine Butler put it , was in accordance with the law of God , and the claim that every person should live in accord with their instincts was a departure from ‘ the sternness of the moral law ’ . |
| 23 | If they were to try to maintain the parity of sterling against gold ( which was in accordance with their own instincts as well as with the views of most of their advisors , although not of Keynes ) they needed substantial foreign credits and they were unlikely to get these without welfare economies which would disrupt the Cabinet and its parliamentary support . |
| 24 | This was in accordance with police procedure . |
| 25 | That was in accordance with instructions they were given . |
| 26 | In the event the union leaders were wholly justified , as the result of the ballot showed , in their claim that there were no reasons for doubting that the industrial action was in accordance with the wishes of the workers . |
| 27 | This was in accordance with the expressed intention of the Act to merge the previously separate concepts of ‘ delinquent ’ and ‘ deprived ’ into one category of ‘ children in trouble ’ . |
| 28 | Each proposal was subjected to scrutiny to ensure that it was in accordance with the criteria set for Phase 2 Pilot Courses and as a result 96 submissions were adopted . |
| 29 | I can confirm that , although the medical examination was clearly an unpleasant experience for Mrs. X , it was in accordance with the regulations and was conducted with kindness and sympathy throughout . |
| 30 | This was in accordance with a 1987 debt restructuring agreement whereby creditor banks agreed to allow the repurchase of up to $500,000,000 of debt obligations , and in 1988 $299,000,000 had been repurchased for $167,000,000 from foreign reserves at a 44 per cent discount . |