Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 2 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 3 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 4 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 5 | One of the most important changes in pub design during this period was in the plan . |
| 6 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 7 | It would seem that this distinction was in the mind of the United Kingdom delegation in formulating their Working Document No. 10 , and that the subsequent references to ‘ discovery ’ served only to confuse the issues . |
| 8 | Although outside the sun was shining and this room was in the front of the house , no glimmer of sunlight filtered through the venetian blinds and the half-drawn curtains , only a dusty grey luminosity which seemed to chill the room . |
| 9 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 10 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 11 | In the city where James Watt had harnessed the pressure of steam to create the Industrial Revolution , thousands of men and women were being driven into the Square by the piston of Government , fearful that another revolution was in the making . |
| 12 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 13 | It is not known whether these were contemporary and whether the settlement of this area was in the form of hamlets before the village was created . |
| 14 | But when this project was in the development stage , it was known as ‘ Project Lazarus ’ because it ‘ rose from the dead ’ so many times . |
| 15 | Put rather more strongly , this evaluation was in the tradition of the critical sociology of education of Sharp and Green ( 1975 ) , M F D Young and his colleagues ( Young , 1971 ) , and others whose work has been characterised by the significance they attach to the distinction between rhetoric and reality . |
| 16 | This school was in the missionary order Sisters of St Mary of Namur . |
| 17 | The last flowering of this tradition was in the Tyne Conference of Shop Stewards , established in 1975 in relation to the Labour Party 's White Paper on Industrial Strategy and the consequent Industry Act ( see North Tyne side CDP , 1978b ) . |
| 18 | It was more than possible that this businessman was in the business of spying . |
| 19 | cos that telephone was in the hall |
| 20 | That lady was in the Kray Brothers . |
| 21 | That girl was in the doorway for nearly fifteen seconds ! |
| 22 | One such collection was in the hands of Galileo 's Paduan friend , G. V. Pinelli . |
| 23 | I do not think that that point was in the mind of either Lord Greene or Scrutton L.J. , but the former in the words above quoted , expressed something with which I respectfully agree , and which seems plain , namely , that an absolute order for possession made against a tenant fundamentally alters the position . |
| 24 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 25 | She added that local decisions on merging parishes and losing priests had yet to be made , but each deanery was in the process of reexamining its structure . |
| 26 | The part which caught his eye so dramatically that day was in the Spaniard 's great work ‘ Divan del Tamarit ’ ( 1936 , quoted from The Selected Poems of Federico Garçia Lorca , Ed . |
| 27 | For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon . |
| 28 | On the Mexican Central Railway , the higher officials , engine-drivers , and conductors were all American at the turn of the century ( on the British-financed lines , many of these would have been British ) ; the brakesmen and station-masters were Mexican ; while all catering was in the hands of Chinese . |
| 29 | In s. 9(1) ( a ) it is not necessary to show that the accused intended to take a specific object or even that that object was in the building : A-G 's Refs ( Nos 1 and 2 of 1979 ) [ 1980 ] QB 180 ( CA ) . |
| 30 | Each knight was in the act of drawing his sword , the swords a little further from the hilts in each panel , as if the knights were drawings in a moving-picture flick-page book . |