Example sentences of "was [adj] in [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was interested in reading about the history of the College and its surroundings e.g. the blitz , any more ? |
| 2 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 3 | The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 4 | Since those reports appeared , it has become clear that that document was not a BR document , but a bogus one , which I understand the hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) was involved in passing to the press . |
| 5 | He was involved in gunrunning for the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti . ’ |
| 6 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 7 | The last attempt undertaken by the DHSS concluded as much and observed that the judgement of the ward sister was fundamental in arriving at the appropriate mix of staffing ( 1 ) . |
| 8 | The academic community was slower in rising to the challenge . |
| 9 | The ‘ harmonisation ’ agreement was successful in warding off the immediate danger of tax-induced price increases for Scotch Whisky in its all-important European markets , although the two-tier minimum spirits rate makes no sense and is hard to reconcile with ‘ harmonisation ’ . |
| 10 | Some reticence was necessary in dealing with the middle classes — you were never quite sure what influence might be brought to bear behind the scenes . |
| 11 | However , he took his part in local politics as a JP and was active in working for the development of Dundee harbour as a member of the Dundee harbour board . |