Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm that was the spirit that was in those days you see erm , they said I 've got nothing to do . |
| 2 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 3 | THE Einstein Observatory survey of cosmic X-ray sources a decade ago showed that coronae were common among diverse types of star , and were in many cases more energetic than the Sun 's corona . |
| 4 | They had an extraordinary tension and were in some ways quite different from the earlier recording . |
| 5 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 6 | More or less equal to Spurgeon in fame , and surpassing him in notoriety ( for Spurgeon avoided party politics and was in many ways sui generis ) was the Congregationalist , Joseph Parker . |
| 7 | Analysing the relationship may — and will - be a painful process but it is also one of healing , for if you can admit to yourself that the relationship was not perfect and was in many ways extremely frustrating , then the sense of loss and abandonment will no longer be as painful . |
| 8 | In 1893 the eminent physiologist J. S. Burdon-Sanderson ( 1828–1905 ) told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that ‘ oecology ’ was one of the three great divisions of biology , along with physiology and morphology , and was in some ways the most attractive of the three because it came closest to the spirit of what had once been called the ‘ philosophy of living nature ’ . |