Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that it [was/were] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housing association output will soon be running at three times the level that it was in the 1970s . |
| 2 | And for the buyers there was the knowledge that it was in all a good cause . |
| 3 | Most of all , if opposition batsman would like to get out ( the dollier the catch the better ) they can start the long walk to the pavilion in the knowledge that it was in a good cause , and not just that of Barney cricket . |
| 4 | If Greg Martin was alive then was it possible … was there the chance that it was in any way possible that her mother was alive too ? |
| 5 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 6 | The last atrocity had been claimed at the time by the Ulster Freedom Fighters with the explanation that it was in retaliation for a bomb which the Provisional IRA had exploded in an army bus in England seven days earlier , killing twelve men , women and children . |
| 7 | From then onwards Waterston stayed in Illchester ownership for two and a half centuries but , since they preferred the grandeur of Melbury , it soon degenerated into the farm that it was in Bathsheba Everdene 's time . |
| 8 | The story of how such a principle was accepted by a war-time coalition government and why it was implemented in the form that it was in advance of all the other social security changes , is a useful illustration of the ways in which particular problems gain the attention of governments and how one social policy can be seen and adopted as at least a partial solution to those problems . |
| 9 | There was even the suggestion that it was in the nature of God 's goodness that there would be a cure for every disease , an optimism that was not always in the best interests of physicians to share . |
| 10 | I told the patient that it was in a treacherous position and an operation would be risky . ’ |
| 11 | The emphasis on individualism that House ( 1978 ) observed prevented education in the UK ever being regarded as an agent of social reform to the extent that it was in the United States . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that it was in the open air , the roof held in some of the smoke , which Charity now felt was reaching killing proportions . |