Example sentences of "were in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 32 | Mr and Mrs Ware were in their mid-thirties with children aged thirteen and ten . |
| 33 | It must be remembered that at this time , the turn of the century , steam engines were fully developed whereas internal combustion engines were in their infancy . |
| 34 | Roman generals who campaigned in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean during the second and first centuries BC were regarded by the Greeks as successors to the Macedonian kings , who were in their turn successors to Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) . |
| 35 | Methods of clinical investigation were in their infancy , and it was open to any distinguished consultant to adopt a new treatment , profess himself satisfied by its results and enhance his reputation and his practice accordingly . |
| 36 | The lads were in their tent , reading , when Mick broke the silence . |
| 37 | All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) . |
| 38 | Occasionally we hear of people of very advanced years who appear and act as if they were in their prime , both mentally and physically . |
| 39 | The first edition appeared in 1962 , when space satellites were in their infancy and before anyone had invented the word ‘ microelectronics ’ . |
| 40 | Perhaps for historical reasons , or because it was necessary to keep the brain tidy when so many powerful thoughts were in their infancy , a separation was necessary ; but now the schism is not only sad but philistine , anachronistic and shameful . |
| 41 | Once the elephants were in their new sanctuary , called Lebong Hitam , the army would dig a trench , with one very steep side and a solar powered electric fence on the other , to keep them from returning to their old haunts . |
| 42 | These advances have been accorded full acceptance with ready abandonment of firmly held convictions on all those matters which are now covered by the sciences , and which were in their earlier interpretations considered unquestionably true . |
| 43 | Two others were in their team headquarters : the American Calvin Smith , the former world-record holder , and the British favourite Linford Christie , sharing a room on the top floor of the team 's apartment with his friend , the hurdler Colin Jackson . |
| 44 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 45 | I mean , we all wrote loads and loads of stuff saying what a drag housework was , how trapped women were in their kitchens , but no-one 's analysed it before , and no-one 's had any ideas about what to do about it . |
| 46 | When I got home Mum and Dad were in their bedroom together and poor little Allie was outside banging on the door like a five-year-old . |
| 47 | Behind us in the auditorium the show was about to begin , and the audience were in their seats . |
| 48 | And the women were in their formals and they all sat down and there was not a laugh in the entire show . |
| 49 | David and Jane 's house was definitely gone and they were in their magnificent new barn , cynosure of the Mattole . |
| 50 | Just over half the wanted men were in their twenties . |
| 51 | Over thirty per cent were in their thirties . |
| 52 | All four of the Titford brothers of this generation were in their early twenties on their wedding day — a reflection in itself of the fact that the average age at marriage for men was falling as the century wore on ; that average in the early 1700s had been as high as twenty-seven . |
| 53 | Half an hour later , the Cartwright family were in their sleeping-bags , each of them uneasy and bewildered by the recent strange events . |
| 54 | For these to extend , however , the crack would have had to cross the planes of weakness in the crystal which were in their path . |
| 55 | The dead , all from Thailand , were in their late teens and early twenties . |
| 56 | Most were in their beds when the powerful blast hit the middle-class district of Bowbazaar , said city officials . |
| 57 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 58 | Most were in their 40s to 60s in age and were of an Establishment style and type . |
| 59 | By 1962 , when the children were in their sixteenth year , the number still resident in Great Britain was 4,720 , of whom 3,626 ( 76.8 per cent ) were given further tests . |
| 60 | College induction programmes for staff new to FE were in their infancy at that time and I probably felt content in the knowledge of my own ‘ expertise ’ . |