Example sentences of "was [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was downhill in top gear now . |
| 2 | In 1924 he joined the Calico Printers ' Association as a research chemist , at a time when the search was on in many laboratories for new synthetic fibres . |
| 3 | sort of kick-offs if any there was on in transactional terms last year Royal Doulton month erm sorry eighteen month type basis ? |
| 4 | It was somewhere in Eastern Europe , I think . |
| 5 | The latter , in fact , was somewhere in all this a casualty . |
| 6 | Not even a special building was required , for since the Master was , as required by the will , a priest in Holy Orders singing masses for his patron at an altar in the Parish Church , it is entirely conceivable that the School 's first home was somewhere in that Church . |
| 7 | The access door was somewhere in that square . |
| 8 | This was so in Hollister v National Farmers ' Union ( 1979 ) . |
| 9 | And another horseman passed by who was all in black his cloak , his horse , and his reins ; and night fell again . |
| 10 | ‘ They asked me if there was anything worn under the kilt and I told them no , it was all in good working order , ’ remarked Lewis drily . |
| 11 | It was all in legal gobbledegook and took a bit of working out but Lord Chatwin had added some words of his own at the end : ‘ If my beloved Spiggy is found everything goes to him and his heirs . ’ |
| 12 | It was all in one piece and could n't be opened , and she judged it as being thick enough to resist breaking , even under the impact of one of the chairs . |
| 13 | It was all in startling contrast to Stephen in his mud-caked shorts , T-shirt and docksiders . |
| 14 | The brilliance of the blue and gold morning , the fragrance of fresh-ground coffee , the tranquil pool and bewitching glimpse of blue sea beyond — it was all in marked contrast to her bleak mood . |
| 15 | The per capita residential floor space in urban China was less in 1980 than in 1949 when the communists first took control . |
| 16 | Although the current balances of most developing countries had begun to improve after 1981 , for many countries their ability to service their heavy debts was less in 1987 than in 1982 . |
| 17 | I 'll grant you were in a bad state , which was hardly surprising after all the business with losing your part and then Lesley-Jane going off with Micky — incidentally , there was less in that than you thought , but that 's by the way . |
| 18 | Mean basal secretory volume was less in old subjects overall ( 71 ( 7 ) ml ; p<0.01 ) , and in old subjects without atrophy ( 66 ( 8 ) ml ; p<0.02 ) than in young subjects ( 110 ( 14 ) ml ) . |
| 19 | She faced the tragedy with courage , acting with dignity even though she was obviously in great distress . |
| 20 | This is illustrated by the people walking past the tramp , showing him no humanity at all even though he was obviously in dire need of help . |
| 21 | JTR was obviously in foreign territory . |
| 22 | Fernie was obviously in some distress . |
| 23 | ‘ He was obviously in some pain . ’ |
| 24 | It was the human element that decided efficiency and it was perhaps in this sphere that training could play an important part . |
| 25 | ‘ I told her I 'd try and see you while I was down in this part of the world . ’ |
| 26 | In 1982 , when the Israeli army surrounded Beirut and the Palestinian guerrillas agreed to leave , I was down in those same front lines , invited by a Palestinian gunman to push the last sandbags from his position now that the final ceasefire had been called . |
| 27 | Despite a county-wide increase unemployment was down in several North Yorkshire towns . |
| 28 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |
| 29 | It was only in such oblique ways that he referred to his state of deserted , now divorced , husband . |
| 30 | It was only in late October this year that it was discovered there were discrepancies between the cash the trustees were holding and the cash the managers thought the trustees were holding . |