Example sentences of "was in [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in bed the whole week . |
| 2 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 3 | Credit cards and shop accounts financed a relatively large proportion of credit purchases from chain department stores , local stores and local speciality shops , and credit cards seemed the only generally-used source of credit in discount shops.HP-type credit was in contrast the only generally-used means of financing things bought from fuel boards . |
| 4 | that any delay which occurred was reasonable and , as the judge found , justifiable and was in part the inevitable consequence of following the Home Office Guidelines ( 1985 ed. ) referred to above ; |
| 5 | What provoked it was in part the ecclesiastical reform movement . |
| 6 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 7 | no a couple of weeks later , erm , we , we went on a big route marching stuff and he was in agony the old stubble |
| 8 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 9 | I was in Woolworths the other day an they 've got smocked dresses now , hand smocked dresses . |
| 10 | Then I became aware that the bank of white clouds beyond was in reality the great ice-cap of Vatnajökull . |
| 11 | What Bernice Martin terms the ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ was in reality the cultural expression of defective superego-formation of epidemic proportions and chronic irresolution at the Oedipal stage of development in a vociferous fraction of the modern population , especially the young . |
| 12 | SIMON Dyer , director general of the AA , was in Belfast the other day to muster his troops and to present a European quality of service certificate to the local squad . |
| 13 | The Berlin Wall both epitomised and was in fact the East-West divide . |
| 14 | It was in fact the front room of a house . |
| 15 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 16 | ( rune was in fact the only libero to have no weaknesses in an evalution in a recent number of influental german football magazine kicker : good in the air , fast , great tackler , great understanding and so on , in short : the bundesliga 's best libero . |
| 17 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 18 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 19 | ‘ This type of work is well supported throughout most of Europe but was in fact the first British plant science experiment in microgravity , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 21 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 22 | The Gardener Centre was in fact the first Arts Centre associated with the university ? |
| 23 | The question was even raised in the Dail about the fact that although the State paid teachers it was in fact the Catholic church which fired them . |
| 24 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 25 | Do you now think the way of organising your essay was in fact the best way of approaching the topic ? |
| 26 | The figures for the 1991 conference were not improved by the failure of one of our sponsors to honour their commitment — our sponsor was in fact The European newspaper . |
| 27 | His study , which was in fact the second bedroom , was acquiring an important , even scholarly , appearance . |
| 28 | Turnout was 7% higher than in 1988 , and was in fact the highest for this set of authorities since local government reorganisation in 1973 . |
| 29 | The only railway building in New Delhi to emerge in the Baker-Lutyens style was in fact the Northern Railway headquarters , Baroda House . |
| 30 | that 's bad news yes , that was in fact the bad news , yes , and that 's what I think what did a couple of them |