Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep-deprived subjects , however , improve their performance on the five-choice when subjected to white noise , as if arousal level in their cases was being raised sufficiently to allow them to cope with the demands of the task . |
| 2 | It would take a radius of c. 3,600 km from this source to encompass the zones of China in which jade was being worked as far back as neolithic times . |
| 3 | An obvious statement and an over-simplification perhaps , but one which would require some far-reaching and fundamental changes in the way in which business was being accepted if the problem was to be dealt with . |
| 4 | They came up with a mock chat show programme in which Williams was being interviewed by Clement Freud , as lugubrious-looking then as now . |
| 5 | For these teachers , the development of ‘ collaborative methods of working ’ had moved beyond discrete tasks , contexts and settings ( deciding for a particular activity between individual and group working ) , towards an approach in which collaboration was being developed as an integral element of the learning environment as a whole . |
| 6 | Gradually the idea of serving the king in his wars was being replaced by the need to serve the res publica , a less particular and more all-embracing higher good . |
| 7 | For while Creggan had been attacking the hooded crow he had been watched and now he in his turn was being stooped upon . |
| 8 | In wh In what ways was was it a far cry ? |