Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we knew from a multiplicity of attestations that the thinness in question was specifically a thin curtain or veil or gauze , we would still not know what precisely the image was , for a curtain could be vertical or horizontal , it could be used to divide or screen or cover , it could serve the one who spreads it out , or someone else for whom it is spread out . |
| 2 | But its boom in popularity was still a selective one — probably due to the fact that it was not until 1830 that the transport of Champagne in bottles became legally permitted . |
| 3 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 4 | The fall in activity was partly the result of a US naval blockade in the Strait of Tiran , although many ships had abandoned Aqaba earlier in the month for purely commercial reasons ( i.e. an increase in shipping insurance rates ) . |
| 5 | The fourth Test in Trinidad was simply a repeat of the first . |
| 6 | I struggled back into equilibrium and tried to ride the pulverising waves of misery and found to my desperate dismay that the finger of arrow in front was almost an inch longer . |
| 7 | Continuing reliance might be placed upon the " civilizing influence of literature but teachers were also aware that for many students a degree in English was simply a necessary preliminary to a career in business , commerce , the civil service , teaching broadcasting , or journalism . |
| 8 | That point in time was also the time of the appropriation . |
| 9 | The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success . |
| 10 | The small shop in Tbilisi was only a base , from which to order cloths and make tax returns . |
| 11 | Yet the shift in surroundings was also an indication of hidden meanings . |
| 12 | It may be no coincidence that the occasion of this shift in distribution was also the time when the devaluation of the gold had become serious . |
| 13 | The injury done on that October night in Lambeth was certainly a lurid reminder of the reality of extremist campaigning . |
| 14 | Correction : the Semiconductor Industry Association is famed for putting a positive spin on the most downbeat news and making over-optimistic forecasts , so it is as well to check their announcements closely — the $1,771m recorded for chip shipments in April was actually a decline of 19.5% on the figure recorded for March ( CI No 2,166 ) . |
| 15 | Nayland in Suffolk was obviously a centre of the clothing trade ; a couple of miles away , Stoke , though equal in size , was completely different , having only a handful of clothiers whose businesses , by local standards were not large . |
| 16 | If he had had to correlate the conduct of the second Punic War with the decentralization of the Roman state — with its municipia and coloniae — and with the ever-changing pattern of the Italian alliances , he would soon have discovered that his idea of a mixed constitution in Rome was almost a fiction . |
| 17 | The Romanian section of Radio Free Europe in Munich was repeatedly the object of attempts by the Romanian secret service to penetrate it and to harm its staff members . |
| 18 | LUNCHTIME in Britain was never an occasion to whet the appetite of the serious private eater : most decent restaurants were cluttered up with expense-account company clodhoppers , making maximum use of their up-market luncheon vouchers . |
| 19 | The former Jurys property in Ballsbridge was previously an Inter-Continental Hotel , not Holiday Inn . |
| 20 | The locations of the hotels in Barcelona was probably the biggest form of complaint … but I 'm sure we 're not going to be called upon to tredisgn the Spanish tourist industry . |
| 21 | A. in Reverie was undoubtedly the painting of the season , and the portrait he had recently finished of Mrs C — , the celebrated actress , was acclaimed — and not only by the sitter — as the best likeness of her striking looks ever achieved . |
| 22 | Although some of the Roman cattle of the time were indeed large , with long lyre-shaped horns , the archaeological evidence does not in fact suggest that larger stock were imported into Roman Britain , but rather that the increase in size was probably the result of improved management and breeding of the existing British cattle . |
| 23 | However , these reformers found , just as others would find within the framework of the national labour exchange system after 1910 , that the economic reality of the free market in labour was always the more influential factor . |
| 24 | Christmas in Abergavenny was simply a continuation of a year of ‘ good sales ’ . |