Example sentences of "[was/were] in [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since reports were in sign the lexical identification of individual items often derived from the other parameters . |
| 2 | The shoddy tower-blocks and monotonous housing estates into which the ex-peasants were already being herded twenty-five years ago were in fact the first stage of systematically transforming life in the country . |
| 3 | They were in fact the first of the so-called Friendly Islands to be seen by Europeans : the Dutch navigators Willem Corneliszoon Schouten and Jacob LeMaire spotted them in April 1616 . |
| 4 | Using her clearance codes , Reynard skipped nimbly into the data terraces he visualised as a vast graveyard , but which were in fact the accumulated records of all known people in Arcady , all employees , current and late , of Tech-Green , all public workers in the country , all suspect characters and a host of other subsections of humanity . |
| 5 | If the other Devon districts were in fact the chief suppliers of patients and users of the big hospital facilities then it would make sense for management and costs to be handed over to them . |
| 6 | Acts of seemingly disinterested friendship , reinforced by regular social contacts , were in fact the only sound approach to building a powerful county interest . |
| 7 | The greatest masses of material were in fact the published fictional works of Walter Machin : the yellowing typescripts of The Factory Whistle and Cotton Town , retrieved from their original publishers , and a collection of miscellaneous stories and articles from newspapers which eventually would be published in book form . |
| 8 | These were in fact the old single deck Subway cars rebodied . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was in bed the whole week . |
| 11 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 12 | Credit cards and shop accounts financed a relatively large proportion of credit purchases from chain department stores , local stores and local speciality shops , and credit cards seemed the only generally-used source of credit in discount shops.HP-type credit was in contrast the only generally-used means of financing things bought from fuel boards . |
| 13 | that any delay which occurred was reasonable and , as the judge found , justifiable and was in part the inevitable consequence of following the Home Office Guidelines ( 1985 ed. ) referred to above ; |
| 14 | What provoked it was in part the ecclesiastical reform movement . |
| 15 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 16 | no a couple of weeks later , erm , we , we went on a big route marching stuff and he was in agony the old stubble |
| 17 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 18 | I was in Woolworths the other day an they 've got smocked dresses now , hand smocked dresses . |
| 19 | Then I became aware that the bank of white clouds beyond was in reality the great ice-cap of Vatnajökull . |
| 20 | What Bernice Martin terms the ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ was in reality the cultural expression of defective superego-formation of epidemic proportions and chronic irresolution at the Oedipal stage of development in a vociferous fraction of the modern population , especially the young . |
| 21 | SIMON Dyer , director general of the AA , was in Belfast the other day to muster his troops and to present a European quality of service certificate to the local squad . |
| 22 | The Berlin Wall both epitomised and was in fact the East-West divide . |
| 23 | It was in fact the front room of a house . |
| 24 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 25 | ( rune was in fact the only libero to have no weaknesses in an evalution in a recent number of influental german football magazine kicker : good in the air , fast , great tackler , great understanding and so on , in short : the bundesliga 's best libero . |
| 26 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ This type of work is well supported throughout most of Europe but was in fact the first British plant science experiment in microgravity , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 30 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |