Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although comparisons of fixed doses of drugs have limitations , the doses of propranolol and nifedipine used were in the middle of their therapeutic ranges . |
| 2 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 4 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 5 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 6 | At least four Spurns were in existence before the present one . |
| 7 | Those included were in Dakar , Niamey , Yaoundé , Bamako , Fort-Lamy , Conakry , Abidjan , Lomé , Cotonou , Douala , St. Louis and Brazzaville . |
| 8 | The farmers visited were in Buskerud county , with five in the hill region just north of Drammen and five some 160km northwest of that city around Al , Gol , Torpo and Nesbyen . |
| 9 | This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle . |
| 10 | The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests . |
| 11 | He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject . |
| 12 | Many users modify existing style sheets but this can bring along huge amounts of excess styling information that you either do n't want or had forgotten was in there . |
| 13 | The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him never emerged , mainly because the showman in him would n't let it go : ‘ there was just so much chaos going on , in my personal and creative life , that I could n't finish … |
| 14 | The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs . |
| 15 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 16 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 17 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 18 | The specification used was in error correction format ( Hendry et al , 1983 ) which by specifying variables in both differences and lagged levels enables one to separate out long and short run influences on the dependent variable . |
| 19 | The first device found was in a toy shop . |
| 20 | A PENSIONER was recovering at home yesterday after a frightening experience in which the car he was driving was in collision with a train at a level crossing near Whitby . |
| 21 | Testimony that it continues to flourish was in abundance at its latest three-day manifestation in Worcester College of Higher Education on the theme of Cultures for Change . |
| 22 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 23 | The whole Cabinet agreed that there should be a cut in the amount that the unemployed were receiving ; where they disagreed was in whether this should include a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 24 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 25 | to go backwards and forwards and I 'll try this I think yeah and the last time you say was in September |
| 26 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 27 | However , ‘ many officers interviewed were in favour of administrative dismissal , not currently available under police regulations . ’ |
| 28 | A report to the council 's working party on the control of dogs on Monday reveals the introduction of pedal-operated bins might attract further users and most people interviewed were in favour of the bins . |
| 29 | Half of the farms visited were in the Peak District and were predominantly livestock-with-grass holdings . |
| 30 | About half the faults of the eventual 955 types collated were in the outer structure . |