Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
| 2 | Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet . |
| 3 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
| 4 | The concept of the poll tax was that the more people there were in a property the more they paid , whereas under the council tax students will not add to but will deduct from the bill . |
| 5 | I taped you while you were in the toilet the other day . |
| 6 | Your Mum and Dad were in the audience the other night . |
| 7 | Once you were in the chair the tooth was as good as out , because Luigi had no intention of missing a chance to exercise his skill . |
| 8 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 9 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 10 | Besides , he was in no way the youth she had envisaged . |
| 11 | It was in a sense the just reward of his method of conducting foreign policy . |
| 12 | The nature of Russia 's ‘ conquest ’ , ‘ subjugation ’ , ‘ annexation ’ or ‘ assimilation ’ of Siberia has been the subject of a good deal of historical debate , and is indeed discussed briefly in some of the following chapters , particularly those by Basil Dmytryshyn , David Collins and James Forsyth — the last concentrating on the ambiguous impact of the incoming Slavs on the aboriginal Siberian peoples — but what is important to underline in this introductory essay is that Muscovy 's expansion from the Urals to the Pacific in the seventeenth century was in a sense the territorial and colonial complement to the institutional consolidation of the political power of the Russian autocratic state . |
| 13 | This was in a sense the first of the family of rare or inert gases to be discovered ; but in chemistry the discovery of an element requires also its isolation , and this did not happen until 1895 , when William Ramsay was in the process of finding the whole group of these gases . |
| 14 | And when her Ford Capri was in a crash the replacement was a diesel-powered Ford Sierra . |
| 15 | When he was in a production the overall power was somehow raised . |
| 16 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 17 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 18 | North and England backs coach , Mike Slemen , said : ‘ The lesson for us was in the way the Springboks closed us down . |
| 19 | The first promise of money would be hardest to get , but once it was in the bag the others , not wanting to be left out , would fall in line . |
| 20 | I was in the house the night you came back , and I watched you try the french windows , and then go round to the back to find the kitchen window locked , too . |
| 21 | It was in the silence the love was . |
| 22 | I was in the supermarket the other day |
| 23 | I was in the supermarket the other day and then this bloke , I saw this bloke pick up this massive bottle of er vinegar right , and he took the top off there was some old woman just going down the aisle and he just started pouring it all over her |
| 24 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 25 | Marjorie does the books ; their son John runs the shop and helps with the coaching ; his wife Janie does the typing , and when I was in the office the lad who brought in the post said ‘ There you are , Grandad ’ and turned out to be John 's son , James . |
| 26 | He was standing in the kitchen , and she was in the living-room the other side of the units . |
| 27 | Yeah , there 's got in , it was in the paper the other night the team of a hundred people gon na take fourteen days to erect this mega stage for Queen that 's gon na build at Wembley |