Example sentences of "[was/were] in the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ILEA ( which published much more detailed statistics on special education than central government or other LEAs ) , boys were in the majority in schools and units catering for every type of special need . |
| 2 | Said Phil : ‘ At the time the key uses of mercury , apart from chlorine production , were in the manufacture of batteries , paints , seed dressings and electrical equipment . ’ |
| 3 | I thought we were in the market for backs rather than midfielders ? |
| 4 | Most of these were at important royal or administrative centres , and many of the churches were in the form of minsters or missionary centres . |
| 5 | Between the wars , nationally , only about 5 per cent of all subsidized dwellings were in the form of flats ; it was 40 per cent in London and 20 per cent in Liverpool . |
| 6 | Her fortunes were in the control of men who could candidly say , like one Essex trustee , that her ‘ present views are of entire indifference to me ’ . |
| 7 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
| 8 | The most powerful weapon in twelfth-century warfare was the castle ; and the chief development in military technology in our period was in the architecture of castles and the technique of their destruction , and in siegecraft in general . |
| 9 | The fact that the secondment was in the part of MOPs where I had worked on summer vacations nearly thirty years ago was an added incentive . |
| 10 | Yet they all seemed to stand in that wind Ruth could n't feel , and she knew she was in the presence of men greater than kings . |
| 11 | Without having to be told , she knew at once two or , rather , three things : the Second Front had begun , John was in the vanguard of operations and that she would never see him again . |
| 12 | Orphaned in infancy , Lowther , together with his surviving sister , Frances , was in the guardianship of trustees , two of whom , his grandmother , Dame Eleanor Lowther , and his uncle , Sir William Lowther , were probably responsible for his upbringing . |
| 13 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 14 | He was in the mood for confidences . |
| 15 | It was in the promotion of canons and prebendaries that Edward most tenaciously defended his patronage claims against papal interference . |
| 16 | The balance of trade in manufacturing swung from a surplus of £2.75 billion in 1979 to a deficit in 1984 of £3.75 billion and the years 1983 and 1984 were the first time in history that Britain 's trade balance was in the red on manufactures . |
| 17 | When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together . |
| 18 | Raistrick 's prime interest was in the biochemistry of moulds , and he was not particularly aiming to isolate antibacterial agents from them . |
| 19 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |
| 20 | I was in the middle of papers [ he wrote ] when Mr Stanley Baldwin was announced at the door . |
| 21 | I was in the company of madmen . |
| 22 | He was in the forefront of experiments in mining technology , and an advocate of improved safety lamps , shaft detaching hooks , and coal-cutting machinery . |
| 23 | So the Local Authority was in the forefront of efforts to make Local Management a success . |
| 24 | It was in the nature of things that the trading-manufacturing element should tend to cluster in towns and industrialised villages , although cottage industry was widely dispersed , especially in the north and west , where population was dense and common land extensive . |
| 25 | Como soon discovered that it was in the nature of winners to enjoy their winnings , as Barbarossa stayed in the north in an attempt to subjugate all the city states . |
| 26 | He was nominated in January 1649 to the high court of justice for the trial of Charles I ; he did not attend the early stages of the court , but in the trial week he attended busily , and was in the group of commissioners who stood up to pass the sentence of death on Saturday 27 January . |
| 27 | His only interest was in the collection of paintings lining the oak-panelled walls . |
| 28 | In the sixties , the Medau Society greatly expanded its training provision , and Edith was in the van of courses set up farther afield , travelling regularly to Norfolk , Leeds , the South West and many other venues . |
| 29 | One clear change was in the status of women . |
| 30 | It said it would return to the Australian supreme court today to ensure the agreement was in the interest of shareholders . |