Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This usually involves over 1,000 birds , and the highest count so far recorded was of 1,535 in Chichester Harbour on 30 January 1972 . |
| 2 | At 18.30 a special evening train was behind 2857 in order to give visitors the chance to experience night steam , and on return to Toddington the loco was positioned in front of the station building to provide photographic opportunities . |
| 3 | It was like that in Wallsend in those days . |
| 4 | Industry was like that in Glasgow , but with disadvantages in everything except the local labour supply . |
| 5 | It was with this in mind that a unanimous Parliament supported not a conspiracy of Tory landowners , but Attlee 's postwar Labour Government in passing the 1947 Agriculture Act , which laid the foundations for the great agricultural revolution of our times . |
| 6 | When Walter Luff took over the Transport Department , he realised the potential for development of the Fleetwood route , and it was with this in mind that the first twenty-five railcoaches were purchased . |
| 7 | It was with this in mind that the book was written . |
| 8 | It was with this in mind that when oil was first discovered in the North Sea , ICI set about joining a number of exploration consortia . |
| 9 | It was with this in mind that in 1979 the government reduced the maximum rate of income tax from 83 per cent to 60 per cent . |
| 10 | It was with this in mind that Ray Varney started Optivision in 1982 . |
| 11 | It was with this in mind that I came joyously across the story of Stephen Eastham this week . |
| 12 | It was above all in response to this mounting agitation over the land , not least among workers whose rural ties were still significant , that the Bolsheviks devoted more and more attention to the land question . |
| 13 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 14 | His first partnership in a paper-mill was in 1840 in Hawley , south of Dartford on the Darent . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but the key was among those in Glynn 's pocket . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was 14 I was at comprehensive in Milton Keynes . |
| 17 | Although Kennedy himself was interested in some sort of test ban , there was at best in Washington a tendency to regard the issue as " a bit of a sideshow " . |
| 18 | Within hours of Starkist 's press conference , their major US competitors , Van Camp and Bumblebee , also announced the introduction of similar policies , and an end to the long and bitter battle between US environmentalists and the tuna industry was at last in sight . |
| 19 | The end of the War was at last in sight , and with it breaking of the electoral truce . |
| 20 | De Klerk 's Feb. 2 speech [ see p. 37232 ] announcing the release of Mandela , the unbanning of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations , and the start of discussions on a new constitution , created a mood of optimism that the ending of apartheid was at last in sight . |