Example sentences of "[verb] was in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs . |
| 7 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first device found was in a toy shop . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 17 | to go backwards and forwards and I 'll try this I think yeah and the last time you say was in September |
| 18 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 19 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 20 | The other way in which the economic aspects of military expenditure were presented was in the form of the public expenditure costs . |
| 21 | In the past 100 years , the only time it was defeated was in Mussolini 's reign , which accounts for the popularity among older Neapolitans , sick of living with Mafioso , for his granddaughter . |
| 22 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 23 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 24 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 25 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 26 | To take existing definitions and enforcement practices for granted was in fact , they argued , to take a very specific — conservative — position . |
| 27 | The phrase " new licence " is defined in s.139(1) of the Act as meaning " a licence granted in respect of premises for which , at the time of the application for such grant , either no licence was in force or a licence different from the form of licence so granted was in force . |
| 28 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 29 | One of the most impressive examples of one-room living that I have ever seen was in a long , narrow space approximately 7.5 m by 3 m ( 24 ft by 10 ft ) . |
| 30 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , just ten miles from where the body was found . |