Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 32 | The tapestries were in good repair and intact , so too were the pictures and the collection of Bow . |
| 33 | The cottages were in good repair , showing Stephen to be a caring landlord . |
| 34 | The Poles were in good repair . |
| 35 | Most of the older people interviewed perceived that they were in good health . |
| 36 | Electrolyte imbalances are usually rare in surgical patients who were in good health pre-operatively and undergoing straightforward operations of relatively short duration . |
| 37 | ‘ You were in good health when I saw you only a week ago today . ’ |
| 38 | The cast had one or two teeth missing from extractions and Some fillings , but on the whole the teeth were in good condition . " |
| 39 | The stores were in good condition after 18 years ; cocoa , salt , flour and matches were found to be as good as when first placed there . |
| 40 | Thus the various analysis procedures were in good agreement , and the enhancement in this case was predominantly presynaptic . |
| 41 | Physical and experimental considerations implied that and so the following values for were established : The results so obtained were in good agreement with predictions from fibre reinforcement theory ( Equations ( 4.21 ) or ( 4.22 ) ) provided that a value of 0.37 for Poisson 's ratio for the butadiene phase was used rather than the more usual figure , for a rubber , of 0.5 . |
| 42 | The crowds were in good form as well . |
| 43 | While the enemy were creatures of absolute mental conformity , the human protagonists were in perpetual conflict . |
| 44 | Up to 500 were in the largest establishment , Kings Bush Prison in London , but most were in small town and provincial lock-ups in which only a handful of prisoners were kept . |
| 45 | The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers . |
| 46 | Around 500 lovers of nostalgia descended on Deal for the contest and were treated to some excellent golf on the course where the greens were in marvellous condition despite the recent drought . |
| 47 | By the late 1970s , both private and public expectations were in parallel decline . |
| 48 | At a time when new young writers were in keen demand the story had an instant success . |
| 49 | At a meeting at Essex County Hospital he outlined priorities for care , such as cases where patients were in immediate danger or disabled people were involved and the council had a statutory obligation to act . |
| 50 | The saloon seats were long slatted benches , but the backs were in perforated plywood . |
| 51 | Both turbine options were in close formation in the static at Farnborough and a superficial look would show little between them . |
| 52 | Santerre and his wife were in close council with each other . |
| 53 | Nevertheless , he held his heart in check until the schiltrons of the pikemen were in close range , and being harrowed like arable fields by the steady volleys of arrows . |
| 54 | Where the locality was suitable or where a number of mills were in close proximity to one another ( such as the Hicks/Hooper empire at Eastington ) it was still possible for a number of separate mills to be run together . |
| 55 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 56 | Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule . |
| 57 | In Cochinchina , as in Tonkin , French , Vietminh , and nationalist forces were in close proximity and as long as Vietnam 's political future was in doubt clashes were almost inevitable . |
| 58 | Psychiatrists rarely visited younger patients at home unless a compulsory admission appeared necessary , but community psychiatric nurses were in close touch , often through their administration of regular depot injections . |
| 59 | The President said that if the United States and Pakistan were really serious in wishing to settle the Afghan problem they should acknowledge the new reality in Afghanistan , where seven months after the departure of Soviet troops the PDPA had become more united and strengthened , while the guerrillas were in total disarray . |
| 60 | They were in total disarray from the start . |