Example sentences of "[noun] was in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wally was in the band a couple of years . |
| 2 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 3 | If , for example , a horseman was in the field and the ploughing was going on extremely well , his stetches coming out neatly , with dead-straight furrows and a level ‘ top ’ , his mate sometimes called out in recognition of his prowess : |
| 4 | Phillip Thorpe , the AFBD 's chief executive , felt obliged to circulate to his staff a denial of reports that a merger with The Securities Association was in the offing . |
| 5 | From the start , they had worked together like brothers , with respect and affection , and Coleman 's grief was in no way lightened by a suspicion that the killers might have fingered Asmar through him . |
| 6 | The card was in the door , and you rang him up anyway |
| 7 | He says the card was in the name of the Rt Hon Norman Lamont , and the Chancellor simply signed as Norman Lamont . |
| 8 | Last night Bowe 's manager , Rock Newman , revealed a new deal was in the pipeline . |
| 9 | Boro recalled full back Curtis Fleming for the injured Gary Parkinson and Falconer was in the squad for the first time since suffering a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth in September . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1970s the American electorate was in a fluid , dealigned state with parties no longer able to provide the degree of structure that they had contributed in the past . |
| 11 | Scarman was in no doubt that the root cause of the rioting was unemployment and deprivation : |
| 12 | Well er , she said they had this This is Your Life on and Neil was in the room in the lounge like and he 'd sort of been half watching it and then he said urgh mum ! |
| 13 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 14 | Water Gypsy was in a lock . |
| 15 | Engels was in no doubt that the lumpenproletariat was ‘ the worst of all possible allies . ’ |
| 16 | It seemed ( see , for instance , our Interim Report , 1988 ) that , right up to the moment when the repatriation of the Cossacks began , there remained a complete and unresolved contradiction between this insistence by 5 Corps and the reiterated insistence by AFHQ that force was in no circumstances to be used . |
| 17 | The Panamanian air force was in no position to oppose the intervention , whatever its political leanings . |
| 18 | From mid-July the force was in the process of formation , although details of deployments were not publicized . |
| 19 | She rushed indoors , using her choicest language , not realising that Erica was in the orchard . |
| 20 | Her bedroom was in the basement . |
| 21 | Their bedroom was in the front of the house and looked out over the sea , a vast expanse of blue , sparkling in early morning sunshine . |
| 22 | My first practical experience in the use of homoeopathic remedies was in the treatment of a child with croup . |
| 23 | The salon was in the Ismailia quarter where all the best hotels were . |
| 24 | The Chief Justice 's reference to the lack of an equal footing was , in my view , to the fact that the defendant was in a position to force the plaintiff to comply with the lawful demand if he wished to obtain the necessary licence to continue to trade , and not simply to the fact that the defendant held an official position whereas the plaintiff did not . |
| 25 | This was a clear case where the defendant was in a position to and did in fact exert duress to require payment of the sum unlawfully claimed . |
| 26 | The priest was trying to make her marry her baby 's father , the good-looking young Pablo , but Lina was in no hurry . |
| 27 | Just before we left , while Dennis was in the loo , I grabbed his wife and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 28 | When it came to cooking the books , Dennis was in the Raymond Blanc class . |
| 29 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 30 | Armed or otherwise , the Hooligan was in the headlines . |