Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not in an easy position . |
| 2 | Best J. appeared to consider that the payment was involuntary inasmuch as the attorney , being in ignorance of the true situation , both parties were not in an equal position . |
| 3 | Where clients were already in an institution , or about to be admitted , when the development officers received their names as referrals , they generally accepted that there was little the Home Support Project could do . |
| 4 | ‘ I first met Eddie Garland at Lamorna , in 1931 , I think it was , when we were both in an outdoor painting group with Birch . |
| 5 | Within minutes of being released by the police , these youngsters were back in an amusement arcade . |
| 6 | However , a number of babies are born with Down 's whose mothers were n't in an obvious at-risk category . |
| 7 | Organiser Barry Clemo said after the event : ‘ Everyone really enjoyed themselves , but the pancakes were n't in an edible state afterwards . |
| 8 | Honours were even in an error-filled first 40 minutes but Leeds took their two chances to edge ahead 8–6 . |
| 9 | Her kings , in their self-determined role as European monarchs , were therefore in an unusually advantageous position . |
| 10 | Cathery reflected all Wilson 's sentiments on the treatment of Germans when the war was over in an election address to the people of Bootle , where he was a parliamentary candidate . |
| 11 | It was over in an instant . |
| 12 | I was outside in an instant . |
| 13 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 14 | Would you have a different answer if Tack was already in an established business looking for areas to expand or to diversify into ? |
| 15 | In the language of p. 27 the electron originally was not in an eigenstate of position but in some superposition of such states ; after the act of measurement it finds itself in an eigenstate of position corresponding to the eigenvalue which is the result of that particular measurement . |
| 16 | Dixon had been in the business long enough to convey by a subtle nuance of tone that the Chief Constable was not in an amiable mood . |
| 17 | Given the chance , I would have stayed watching or followed the kestrel around the park all day , but if I was on a shopping sortie with my mother , she was always in an incredible hurry , so that was n't possible . |
| 18 | Perhaps unwisely , he was still in an avuncular mood after his trip abroad , and duly uttered those fatal words . |
| 19 | Buzz was still in an Eastbourne hospital . |
| 20 | I rang the bell , bashed the knocker and rattled the letter box since this was guaranteed to provoke a tirade of the ‘ noisy young bastard ’ variety from Toby , who was probably in an irritable state , stranded as he was between the lunchtime and the early evening session . |
| 21 | Horton Hospital , located in Epsom , and together with Banstead one of a ring of mental hospitals in the vicinity known as the ‘ Epsom cluster ’ , was subject to the same process of decline and was also in an impossible location to offer community care . |
| 22 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 23 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 24 | The thought that such armament was compulsory for anyone privileged enough to own a private car in my own time reminded me that , Napoleonic Wars apart , I was now in an age where the safety and sanctity of the individual was taken for granted . |
| 25 | Many years later when I first visited the States I began to understand a bit of how they felt , as I too was then in an alien land — and make no mistake , America is an alien land , for all that we share a language and many common roots . |
| 26 | It is equally probable that the separation of the South Slav languages into Serb , Croat , Slovene , Macedonian and Bulgarian was then in an early stage of development , if it had occurred at all . |
| 27 | It was seldom in an average summer that we were unable to supply at least our needs for hot water and cooking . |