Example sentences of "was [adj] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother 's success was due in some part to her brother , my uncle , Charles Chipchase , who went to London in the 1920s and got into conversation with a newspaper reporter . |
| 2 | No group was directly comparable in 1961 ; but by 1976 the Thomson group was strong in all sectors . |
| 3 | The Director of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum , Dr Rheinhold Baumstark , did say though that , while the collection was rich in such items , it did not contain really major works of art no Rubens , nor a Giambologna , for example . |
| 4 | As was usual in such cases , the king of England stood godfather . |
| 5 | beeney was solid in this respect … one of the best kicks from a back pass youll see … this gives the defence confidence and that option . |
| 6 | The appeasement myth was right in this respect : Halifax would have been a disaster for Britain . |
| 7 | He hoped that he was right in this belief . |
| 8 | ‘ Nora was admirable in many ways but no one could call her lovable . ’ |
| 9 | There was plenty of food , fresh water and as much freedom of movement as was possible in such circumstances . |
| 10 | However , some development was possible in each test mode and views on issues were obtained from a number of liaison groups and second-phase schools . |
| 11 | Nor did it occur to me then to enquire how it was possible in those days for a keen Wesleyan Methodist to become a publican . |
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| 13 | One , black velvet , was outstanding in all ranges , its reflectance being almost zero . |
| 14 | At 14 , Gedge was outstanding in several subjects , especially French , and for a while harboured dreams of travelling the world as an interpreter . |
| 15 | The investment appraisal published by the Southern board was deficient in many respects . |
| 16 | The bill did not make an exception in cases of pregnancy caused by incest or rape despite a warning by Roemer — himself an opponent of abortion — that he would veto any legislation which was deficient in these respects . |
| 17 | We felt that the use of median survival as an outcome was unsuitable in this meta-analysis since this effect-size approach , although suitable for quantitative outcomes , would not have given reliable pooled results . |
| 18 | There is strong evidence to believe that Bamford was representative in another respect : their first child was present at the wedding . |
| 19 | We know that speculation was rife in this period , for example in currencies , gold and real estate , and a number of highly publicized incidents took place in commodities markets . |
| 20 | But , having said that , it is not or was not an issue at the forefront of British politics and in a sense you can say the whole nation was guilty in that way . |
| 21 | Red cell folate was normal in all cases , even in the three patients with coeliac disease . |
| 22 | Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was normal in all patients , and a manometric test was performed in all of them . |
| 23 | At time T the intraepithelial lymphocyte count was normal in all patients ( normal values 8 ( 3 ) ) but it showed a clear cut increase at time T 1 in both group A and group B patients . |
| 24 | Headache and tiredness were more common presenting complaints in patients with a large tumour , although thyroid and adrenal function was normal in this group . |
| 25 | The problem , neatly summarized by Blackaby ( 1980 ) , was that Britain 's collective bargaining structure lay betwixt and between two polar extremes : at one extreme was the highly centralized system which was prevalent in some countries of continental Europe ; at the other extreme was the model of atomistic competition in labour markets which appeared to feature only in textbooks . |
| 26 | The arthritis , an inherited complaint , was painful in both knees , she had slept fitfully , disturbed by nightmares , and now she was to go and spend a distressing afternoon with Eleanor . |
| 27 | Anything of quality was exciting in those days , for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible . |
| 28 | What was interesting in this study was that subjects ' eye movements showed that they looked longer and more frequently at syntactic errors even when they did not actually report the errors . |
| 29 | Traffic was light in those days and I explored South Wiltshire — in fact the whole area some fifteen miles around Salisbury . |
| 30 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |