Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] in [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , if the image came to acquire reality in the minds of Zuwaya this was in part the result of an outsider 's effort to discover and describe it , to gather precise information about those connections between elements which made some of them so resonant in modern political life . |
| 2 | In that case , at any rate , there was little question of the boys ' dispute creating a relationship of permanent hostility between the two groups ; and this was in part the consequence of the wider peace , sanctioned by authority , which generally prevailed in Libya . |
| 3 | This was in part the outcome of a deliberate government policy to avoid losing professionals and industrialists . |
| 4 | This was in part the result of the great European war which broke out in 1914 . |
| 5 | This was in part the result of research in the archives of the Defence Agency in Tokyo , and partly a response to a compensation suit filed in a Tokyo District Court in December by three former " comfort women " . |
| 6 | However , he has never stated that this was in fact the case . |
| 7 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 8 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 9 | If this was in fact the case , it makes Rolle 's aversion to church music more understandable . |
| 10 | This was in fact the original explanation proposed by Linsky and Haisch . |
| 11 | In the early twelfth century this was in fact the cathedral town of the Ross diocese , superseded in the following century by Fortrose . |
| 12 | These were in fact the old single deck Subway cars rebodied . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , if men such as these were in fact the local recruiting agents , not all were equipped for the job ; Nicholas Hill of Oakham , though servant to no less a figure than the king , possessed neither arms nor armour . |
| 14 | This latter was in fact the fee farm of the borough , which had come to be permanently assigned to the earls of Salisbury , whose titles and possessions had been conferred on Margaret Pole , daughter of the duke of Clarence . |
| 15 | One of the crucial questions emerging for the CNAA during the 1970s was in fact the extent to which it could take initiatives as well as being responsive . |
| 16 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 17 | that 's bad news yes , that was in fact the bad news , yes , and that 's what I think what did a couple of them |