Example sentences of "was in [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 2 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 3 | The Lords ' remaining authority was in practice to be removed in consequence of the 1867 Reform Act , though not until the twentieth century was the House forced formally to accept its diminished status . |
| 4 | and erm one of er , of the various committees that erm Arthur was in charge of was an Agricultural Sub Committee which in turn had a Sub Committee called the Poultry Sub Committee . |
| 5 | Another sideline of this erm little secondary education section that erm Arthur was in charge of was the library and erm the Library Sub Committee he erm had to look out for much to the annoyance of erm Bill who was the librarian at the time |
| 6 | What I was in search of was my son . |
| 7 | On a desk by the window a tray of stamps was in process of being sorted ; there were bookshelves , a cabinet of shallow drawers presumably for coins , a safe , a filing cabinet , journals and catalogues were piled on the floor and , incongruously , a pier table and a French commode stood against one wall looking uncomfortable . |
| 8 | A theory of ducal sovereignty was in effect to be formulated between 1294 and 1300 , which was to set important precedents for other peers and magnates of France to follow . |
| 9 | Kiyonga also announced that a black market for foreign exchange was in effect to be legalised , in a measure designed to increase availability of foreign currency and stimulate foreign investment and non-traditional exports . |
| 10 | ‘ She liked to believe he was in line to be the next PM . |
| 11 | ULSTER Unionist councillor John Adams today dampened speculation that he was in line to be Londonderry 's next deputy mayor . |
| 12 | But that night one of my other inspectors phoned and told me that Carella was in hospital after being struck by a car in the Portuense district . |
| 13 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 14 | We were immediately back into the ambience of the nursery where , if anything even vaguely indiscreet was in danger of being said , it would instantly be muffled by the warning whisper : ‘ Hush , not in front of the children ’ . |
| 15 | In the later phase of Mrs Thatcher 's government , Britain was in danger of being rudderless as nothing very obvious came to succeed this older source of authority . |
| 16 | However , if our main aim had been to get as many ‘ ordinary people ’ involved as possible , this was in danger of being frustrated by the sheer bureaucracy of the process . |
| 17 | However , the flames were near the petrol tank and the fishing vessel was in danger of being blown up so the skipper had to give the order to abandon ship . |
| 18 | Finally , with considerable reluctance , I suggested that his faith seemed to have very little foundation and that without more understanding to match his enthusiasm he was in danger of being tripped by the questions of life — let alone by those of his fellow students . |
| 19 | He warned the Church was in danger of being dominated by single issues , such as the ordination of women priests , and insisted the door must be kept open to all , whatever their views on the matter . |
| 20 | In his time the Jews must often have felt their culture and civilization was in danger of being swallowed up by Roman domination . |
| 21 | A WINDSURFER was rescued off the Essex coast yesterday as he was in danger of being driven on to rocks . |
| 22 | When , for instance , the president 's programme of budget cuts was in danger of being subverted in the summer , a rash of horse-trading took place as Stockman reveals . |
| 23 | Although the three earlier poems had been highly praised and widely read — their reception , Hayward told Frank Morley , had boosted Eliot 's reputation at a time when it was in danger of being obscured by younger poets — he was unable to finish the sequence . |
| 24 | Knowing of his involvement with another woman , however , had meant that that hole was in danger of being filled with hate , not sorrow . |
| 25 | I realised that I was in danger of being fooled by the maps . |
| 26 | These books played a part in establishing a sense of historical continuity in the feminist movement , and they helped to rescue the constitutionalist women 's suffrage movement from the oblivion to which it was in danger of being consigned by the more flamboyant reputation of Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | He had left things to others too long , and his sovereignty was in danger of being slighted . |
| 28 | Thatcher ) , was in danger of being , like a tram , stuck in a groove . |
| 29 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 30 | The Russian budget deficit was in danger of being inflated by measures forced on the government in order to maintain levels of social protection , and by lower tax revenues caused by non-payment . |