Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And inside was what tha in the middle was like a bucket container , like er it was a , a , a , a kind of a mortar and you fired this mortar with a er a charge and it fired . |
| 2 | Figure 6.4 shows that the noise level in the Nightingale ward and in the cubicle during the night was above the figure suggested for the usual bedroom ; and during the day , the level in the ITU was above the ‘ annoying ’ level . |
| 3 | The feeling in the country was for the Queen , and Haymo the Bishop advised the Archbishop not to go into the city because of the high feeling towards the bishops and the danger to their persons . |
| 4 | ( S. ) 84 that the sentencer must consider the extent to which the offender 's presence in the country was to the detriment of the country , and the effect of the recommendation on the members of the offender 's family . |
| 5 | A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years . |
| 6 | His influence in the breed was like a fresh wind blowing through the genetic pool . |
| 7 | But the most important point was that the emphasis in the syllabus was on the skills relating to the communication of information rather than retrieval from information sources . |
| 8 | One in 12 people who took part in the survey was without the use of their machine for over a fortnight . |
| 9 | The tension in the kitchen was like an electric current . |
| 10 | The story taken up in the press was of the interminable controversies in which the Cambridge English faculty has been embroiled : Leavis , Steiner , Kermode , now Derrida . |
| 11 | The context of each story in the Gospel was in the hands of the author himself . |
| 12 | Last entry in the register was by a passing stranger during the Wall Street crash . ’ |
| 13 | The sexuality in the air was like a gauze backdrop in a theatre . |
| 14 | The course the strike followed in the village was of an initial passive consensus led by activists , which with the onset of local strikebreaking ( Sept 1984 ) became transformed into an active consensus with widespread mobilisation . |
| 15 | ( Tabb ( 1984 ) shows that in 1978 one in three of all manufacturing jobs in the South was in an industry with a wage rate below the national average for all manufacturing , indicating that low-wage jobs in particular had been attracted there . ) |
| 16 | Much of the development of industry in the north was on a very small scale and occurred in large villages or small towns often very close to the areas where coal was mined . |
| 17 | The dark in the bar was like the darkness inside her : terrifying . |
| 18 | Anyway when I went in the phone was on the hook , and I said who was on the phone ? |
| 19 | The master said that some wood used in the construction was from a beech tree which had been felled . |
| 20 | The most significant project in the year was for the proposed BNFL Nuclear Power Station at Sellafield which was won against strong opposition . |
| 21 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 22 | One of the boys in the group was in the process of telling the landlord a joke . |
| 23 | Secondly , Mr. Thornton argues that the conversation in the shop was within the scope of the Code of Practice for the Detention , Treatment and Questioning of Persons by Police Officers , issued by the Home Secretary under section 66 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( ‘ PACE Codes of Practice , Code C ’ ) . |
| 24 | A child in the car was among the injured . |
| 25 | In this storm of righteous indignation few commentators made the important but disheartening point that , except in moments of obvious crisis , the man in the street was as a rule little interested in foreign policy questions . |
| 26 | so at lunchtime today every rugby fan in the city was by a radio to listen to the draw for the semi-final … club coach Keith Richardson was in our Gloucester office ready for the news |
| 27 | A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it . |
| 28 | Temple , 19 , in his first year in the ABA and who had been working in Fawcett 's butchers shop since 5.30 in the morning was over the moon with his hard earned win over Wales 's Barry Jones . |
| 29 | It was as if the idea of God in the mind was like a shadow thrown on a wall . |
| 30 | My role in the matter was as an independent voice advising the Labour Party on what to do about Profumo . |