Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the less experienced , youngsters like Serguei Molchanov , a prop , and the Georgian full-back Nougzar Dsagnidze were outstanding in the 1988 Students ' World Cup . |
| 2 | An increase in registrations for courses such as Presentation Skills , which were under-subscribed in the Autumn , was encouraging and suggested that staff were becoming more aware of the programme and that its reputation was growing . |
| 3 | Health minister Virginia Bottomley and Baroness Blatch were due in the North-East today . |
| 4 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 5 | ‘ We spread the ball , supported players quickly and were solid in the scrummage . |
| 6 | Umpire Woodward was also standing during delays most thought were unnecessary in the Napier Test between New Zealand and India in 1990 , and at last year 's Wellington v Sri Lankans match ( ‘ We will not tolerate a repeat , ’ said national chairman Peter McDermott and executive director Graham Dowling at that stage ) . |
| 7 | The view that the Iraqi government was willing to resume negotiations on UN-supervised oil sales ( reported in September — see p. 39115 ) was supported by China 's permanent representative at the UN Li Daoyu who , referring to the resolution , was quoted on Oct. 3 as saying that such " extraordinary measures " were unnecessary in the light of Iraq 's readiness to re-open negotiations . |
| 8 | He felt that Cook 's were right in the direction they were taking and correct in their prediction of 1,000 failures among agencies . |
| 9 | Er you know living er so close to neighbours and people you know in so it tended to be , in other places where I 've lived , that you did n't see people people very often , at least you did n't speak to your close neighbours very often , and erm in the flats , you know I found that they were right in the midst of it . |
| 10 | There may still be a few people in Islay who will remember , no doubt with appreciation , the Coats libraries , a source of firstly recreation and secondly instruction , when books were scarce in the island except in the houses of the proprietors , and to a lesser degree , the doctor , the ministers and the schoolmasters , long before popular newspapers , radio and television were easily available , |
| 11 | The women , aged 21 and 40 , and the girl were asleep in the hostel for Turkish immigrants when the thugs hurled Molotov cocktails through their bedroom window . |
| 12 | Almost all were asleep in the burrows . |
| 13 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 14 | There we are told that , amidst the collapsing standards of the comprehensive school system , successful reading standards were now only attained in what are described as ‘ traditional ’ schools , whereas ‘ such standards were usual in the 1930s ’ . |
| 15 | The sun , slanting in through the window , showed up the faded shabbiness of the room , but outside the treetops were golden and the bees were loud in the roses . |
| 16 | It thus offered a form of compensatory training for them and made no attempt to try to alter the racist structures and attitudes in the labour market by which they were disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 17 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 18 | A Coles diesel crane and a diesel loco were stable in the engineer 's siding and they , together with the supply of skilled volunteers at the station , completed the re-railing in just 70 minutes . |
| 19 | At the time the Conservatives were low in the polls and within the Party the various political and organisational groups were not yet pulling hard together towards the election . |
| 20 | They were low in the later years partly because recruitment continued until 1986 and partly because of non-attendance . |
| 21 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 22 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 23 | They were monotonous in the sense that they usually related to allegations that there was some special relationship between the Prime Minister and Marcia Williams , and indeed I advised Mrs Williams in connection with insulting letters that she received . |
| 24 | Most of the companies appear to believe that further productivity increases were possible in the audit . |
| 25 | If it were possible in the residential care of young people to replace their sense of failure in personal relationships with successes , small or big , in other aspects of their lives , then the experience of residential care could be seen as beneficial in its own right , whatever the outcome of work to restore family relationships . |
| 26 | History and progress were possible in the West . |
| 27 | She wondered if the cabin passengers caught the illnesses — especially dysentery — which were rife in the steerage . |
| 28 | Also , the figures depend on how many grandparents were alive in the population . |
| 29 | Apart from Simon Hughes 's redoubt in Southwark and Bermondsey , the Liberals today are strong only where the Liberals were strong in the '50s and '60s — in Scotland , the West Country and parts of Wales . |
| 30 | Other sources show that the wealthiest group in town — the professionals and the innkeepers — were under-represented in the militia returns . |