Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They were extravagantly to his advantage , save when she lowered her voice to sigh , tapping her left side familiarly : " And all overclouded by this , you know — all at the mercy of a weakness — ( 9 ) Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 2 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 3 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 4 | In fact , half the cases appeared in one newspaper — the Middlesex Chronicle , a local weekly — while the remainder were in the nationals . |
| 5 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 6 | The Times , for its part , while maintaining a discrete silence when the fortunes of the case were in the balance , eventually brought its influence to bear against those who were understood as Eyre 's malicious persecutors . |
| 7 | Most of the rise was in the form of manufacturing and other business investment ( figure 8.7 ) . |
| 8 | Comparison with PACT data showed that in the two study practices , the 4% ( 5701 ) of prescriptions not recorded on the computer were in the category labelled in PACT level III as ‘ special groups — non-BNF . ’ |
| 9 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 10 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 11 | Maybe the 'phone was in the living room and she 'd be unable to talk anyway . |
| 12 | Therefore the university was in the habit of leaving the choice of professor to the bishop . |
| 13 | The convent was in the protection of St Sophia and the church was dedicated to her , but changed its dedication when the building was taken over by the nuns of the Salesiane della Visitazione order . |
| 14 | My mother 's business success had continued and the bungalow was in the throes of an ongoing transformation that would only end some five years later , when the Cliff Top Country House Hotel opened its register for bookings . |
| 15 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 16 | Truly , the cabin was in the heart of the forest . |
| 17 | The play was in the Leeds half most of the time , but this play was scrappy to say the least . |
| 18 | He said " When the employee was in the Kingsbridge office he was in effect the Kingsbridge office . |
| 19 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 20 | The dying Pitt , rejoicing in the House of Lords that the grave had not closed over him before he could protest against ‘ the dismemberment of this noble empire ’ , was a tragic figure ; but the tragedy was in the absurdity of the protest . |
| 21 | They were both dressed the same , probably for the same reason , and yet it did n't seem to make any difference because all the action was in the eyes . |
| 22 | Armed or otherwise , the Hooligan was in the headlines . |
| 23 | In such a case it was argued , following St Augustine , that since the soldier was in the service of his lord , it was the lord who must accept responsibility . |
| 24 | He unlocked a padlock into a smallish barn — the key was in the padlock waiting — and got her to help him push the wooden doors back . |
| 25 | ‘ The key was in the keyhole on the inside . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The key was in the lock of the front door , so we simply walked in . |
| 27 | Once the key was in the lock , he pushed forward with both hands , one on the front door , one on Nenna 's back , so that in the end she was propelled into no. 42 . |
| 28 | The entrance was in the middle of the wall opposite the villa house where the owner and his family lived . |
| 29 | From mid-July the force was in the process of formation , although details of deployments were not publicized . |
| 30 | The card was in the door , and you rang him up anyway |