Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd put it there , looked through and could n't find it , we were in every drawer in the blooming house ! |
| 2 | And er fifthly then , the fifth condition is that those who receive presidential orders were in no doubt about the president 's authority to give those orders . |
| 3 | The NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner , commented that " to see defence ministers who were in a sense at the heart of the Cold War confrontation sitting in a spirit of partnership around the same table is a remarkable and moving event " . |
| 4 | As a result , for the first time in the history of East Germany the Communists were in a minority in the Council of Ministers [ for initial composition see p. 37025 ; for January 1990 changes see pp. 37170-71 ] . |
| 5 | Of the 99 deputies elected in 1972 , only 67 remained in the current Assembly , which was based on a 6:5 Christian:Moslem ratio ( although Christians were in a minority within the population as a whole ) . |
| 6 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 7 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 8 | They were in a bedroom at the left side of the house when I joined them . |
| 9 | In fact , the work we have done together has always been very harmonious — although I imagine if we were in a sit-com at the same time we could get a bit waspish — ‘ She 's got more lines than me … but it 's never happened so far . |
| 10 | The other Daughters were in a semi-circle around the Sandrat . |
| 11 | This was the main reason the Pharisees hated the tax-collectors : they were in the pay of the Romans . |
| 12 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 13 | Stores , breweries , leisure stocks , banks and insurance shares were in the vanguard of the rises and at the close of the trading session a bumper £6bn had flowed in . |
| 14 | Even those governments that were in the vanguard of the urging for greater union were guilty at times of dragging their heels when OEEC proposals and policies seemed likely to have an adverse effect upon the national economy . |
| 15 | The textile workers were in the vanguard of the process from the 1850s , though not alone , and after 1900 the process was much more rapid . |
| 16 | It was railway workers who were in the vanguard of the protest , worried about job losses and safety , but Middle England was also on the march , concerned that services might suffer , polls indicate that four out of five voters oppose the sell off . |
| 17 | As Lord Bridge of Harwich said : ‘ I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding that s 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the Revenue on the appellants … |
| 18 | My Lords , I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding the opinion that section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the revenue on the appellants which had been upheld by Vinelott J. and the Court of Appeal . |
| 19 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 20 | To this end , he assessed whether the modifications carried out were in the spirit of the DCs , that the modifications were adequate to cope with the SPRs submitted by clients , and that the quality of the total package satisfied the quoted project standards . |
| 21 | The meetings were in the playground of the Bu Bakr school in the central settlement , Zawiya . |
| 22 | When we were in the meadow opposite the Grotto and Father was talking about Bernadette I felt as though I could see her . |
| 23 | A further 11 are listed as serving soldiers or seamen ( some of the other bridegrooms were in the services at the time of marriage , but since their civilian occupations were also recorded they have been classified differently ) . |
| 24 | Which was pretty demoralizing for us that were in the water at the time but |
| 25 | Yet Zeppelin were in the tradition of the blues , of Robert Johnson and Leadbelly . |
| 26 | Yet Zeppelin were in the tradition of the blues , of Robert Johnson and Leadbelly . |
| 27 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 28 | The sibling miscreants were in the grasp of the relentless and merciless Jack Clarke . |
| 29 | At the Westminster election of 1698 , for example , 300 horsemen who were in the service of the Court Whigs , James Vernon and Charles Montagu , charged at their opponents in Tothill fields , and cudgelled them into nearby ditches . |
| 30 | But he said all had been totally dismantled since he came to power in 1989 and all South African nuclear facilities were open to scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , whose inspectors were in the country at the moment . |