Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 2 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 3 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 4 | One clear change was in the status of women . |
| 5 | By her fireside there was a settee and a table , ‘ and old granny was in the corner . |
| 6 | The summit of this very steep grade was in the tunnel and once out of it engines would shut off to get their breath back . |
| 7 | You know , the one whose driving-licence picture was in the paper , she 'd been shot , was n't she asking about the Schickerts ? |
| 8 | Articulate women , anxious to lead purposeful lives , found it impossible to dismiss the idea , supported as it was by scientific theories of sexual difference , that their proper place was in the home . |
| 9 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 10 | Political and social revolution was in the air and Koreans of all political persuasions longed for unity . |
| 11 | The highest rate of suburban development was in the cities of the North-East . |
| 12 | Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions . |
| 13 | British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high . |
| 14 | Old Ape was in the shadows at the back , Mrs Stead-Carter looked impatient at the front . |
| 15 | But the day-to-day administration of the south-western French possessions of the English crown was in the hands of knightly-seneschals or lawyer-seneschals , aided and abetted by a Gascon council , by their own lieutenants , and ( after 1279 ) by sub-seneschals in the major subdivisions of the duchy . |
| 16 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 17 | For its part , the Labour Government of 1960 did a " U turn " on a number of pledges ( most notably by restoring charges for the health service ) , and although the party entered office in 1974 with a series of clear policy commitments more radical in tone and in aspiration than any that the party had endorsed since 1945 the promise of industrial regeneration and social justice was in the end reneged . |
| 18 | No doubt as the matrimonial home was in the husband 's sole name the wife will have registered her right of occupation by way of a Class F Land Charge or ( if registered title ) a notice under the terms of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 . |
| 19 | If the former matrimonial home was in the husband 's sole name , then in the event of his death the wife has to prove her interest in it , and the correspondence will have to be unearthed to prove to the capital taxes office that , although the house is in the husband 's sole name , his estate would not be beneficially entitled to the whole of the proceeds of sale . |
| 20 | Similar difficulties can occur if the former matrimonial home was in the names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , for on the death of either it would appear to a purchaser that the survivor had the right to sell ( Law of Property ( Joint Tenants ) Act 1964 , s1(1) ) . |
| 21 | The amnesty welcomed students to return to China " no matter what their political attitude was in the past " , and said that there would be no investigation into " wrong things " they had said or committed abroad . |
| 22 | Apprenticed to his father as a lighterman , and sent to sea at the age of fifteen , Somes 's early experience was in the coal and coastal trades . |
| 23 | The very real tragedy was in the fate of one man and what was needed was an Everyman figure who could carry the story by being charming , innocent , ordinary , and haunted and that is what the skills of Muni could give them . |
| 24 | Her packed suitcase was in the back of the bedroom cupboard . |
| 25 | My early training was in the sciences . |
| 26 | I joined the committee and my principal activity was in the end to assist in procuring its dissolution . |
| 27 | Yes , well this is , this is what the intention of the comprehensive school was in the beginning was to ha , let every child have the same opportunity which I 'm sure they 're getting in the comprehensive school . |
| 28 | Since its early expression was in the form of sexual relations between conquering white soldiers and dominated Indian women , it has taken on a distinctly aggressive element which can emerge in the form of violence . |
| 29 | Here the Anglo-Norman chancery was in the vanguard with the production of writs — commands addressed to the king-duke 's officials , used in eleventh-century Normandy , but developed in the course of the twelfth into the chief instrument for central control over the localities and for legal innovation . |
| 30 | But his principal contribution was in the field of civil engineering , as a builder of road and railway bridges . |