Example sentences of "that it [was/were] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are to come now. , He concentrated on positioning his shoulder so that it was in a cave formed by a fold of the stiff , harsh blanket , untouched by it . |
| 2 | But the former Neath and Wales rugby union star , later dismissed for throwing a punch at Gary Tees , insisted last night : ‘ All I can remember is that it was in a tackle . |
| 3 | If you were to see an adult goat jump like this , it would usually mean that it was in a desperate situation . |
| 4 | Before that it was in a similar condition to the cottage next door which has the original entrance to the spa . |
| 5 | Most of all , if opposition batsman would like to get out ( the dollier the catch the better ) they can start the long walk to the pavilion in the knowledge that it was in a good cause , and not just that of Barney cricket . |
| 6 | I told the patient that it was in a treacherous position and an operation would be risky . ’ |
| 7 | Jones said : ‘ All I can remember was that it was in a tackle . |
| 8 | It is , of course , important to remind ourselves that the Council went out of its way , for instance , to reiterate that it was in no way contradicting Vatican I and instances of contradiction should not be lightly proposed . |
| 9 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 10 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 11 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 12 | Como soon discovered that it was in the nature of winners to enjoy their winnings , as Barbarossa stayed in the north in an attempt to subjugate all the city states . |
| 13 | With a shudder she realized that it was in the same block of buildings as Bartholomew Close . |
| 14 | They also reflected a growing belief that it was in the general interest for the old to stop working : a fundamental change in attitude . |
| 15 | But the NFL recognised that it was in the entertainment business . |
| 16 | At one point he indicated that it was in the best interests of the investigation . |
| 17 | Macpherson has argued convincingly that it was in the context of just such a society that the case For a representative democracy was initially accepted , first as a logical requirement to protect acquisitive , self-interested and conflicting individuals ( from rapacious governments and from one another ) and second to establish and nurture a free market economy ( MacPherson , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | It was considered self-evident that it was in the general national , indeed imperial , interest to move towards free labour . |
| 19 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 20 | As I noted in their recent Erato version of the Concerto , the Suisse Romande Orchestra is ‘ in very much better shape that it was in the 1950s and 1960s , and this new account supersedes earlier recommendations ’ . |
| 21 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 22 | It could therefore be argued that it was in the interests of the Soviet Union to see the Korean peninsula in the hands of a friendly regime and American-Japanese interests pushed out of the Asian continent . |
| 23 | The growth of the economy — and the problems it caused — persuaded Japanese governments during the 1920s that it was in the country 's interest to go along with the internationalist trend . |
| 24 | There was even the suggestion that it was in the nature of God 's goodness that there would be a cure for every disease , an optimism that was not always in the best interests of physicians to share . |
| 25 | There is no doubt , however , that it was in the 1860s and 1870s that there was a real extension of propaganda for birth control directed at the middle class . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't believe you can go on like this and get away with it , ’ was his core phrase , prepared with care because he believed that it was in the King 's idiom . |
| 27 | The emphasis on individualism that House ( 1978 ) observed prevented education in the UK ever being regarded as an agent of social reform to the extent that it was in the United States . |
| 28 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 29 | ‘ At the time the [ father ] made his application to the court the local authority had decided that it was in the best interests of the children that they be placed with long-term foster parents . |
| 30 | Chowood Ltd. v. Lyall ( No. 2 ) [ 1930 ] 2 Ch. 156 concerned a strip of land which had , on first registration , been included in a registered title notwithstanding that it was in the possession of an adjoining owner . |