Example sentences of "and [was/were] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For they could still buy the best players through club transfers and were in a position to provide small additional incentives to players without increasing their wage-bill . |
| 2 | But however the relationship between these was seen , staff generally agreed that the developments in this aspect of the school 's provision were substantial and were in a direction of which they approved . |
| 3 | Here is an example of such inversion which I myself observed in operation among the peasantry of North Central Ceylon ; brothers were always rated as elder-brother /younger-brother and in a relationship of inequality and restraint , whereas brothers-in-law always treated one another as equals and were in a relationship of joking familiarity . |
| 4 | Lord Taylor said that Kennedy and Mr Quinn , who did not know each other , were arrested separately for drunkenness and were in a cell known as the tank when the fatal injuries were inflicted . |
| 5 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 6 | Mr Berge , appointed in September last year by his friend President Mitterrand , opened the conference with the declaration that despite the jealous and envious reports of the foreign press they now had at the Opera a ‘ welded team ’ and were in a condition of being ‘ resonant and reasonable ’ . |
| 7 | Money was short in the party by 1921 because there had been no proper revival since the war ; members were constantly described as apathetic , and were in no mood to give their time or their money to a party that did not know where it was going . |
| 8 | Those Muslims who were out on the streets looked bad-tempered : they had not eaten or drunk since before dawn , and were in no mood for smiles or pleasantries . |
| 9 | The Whigs , as a political force , had been largely destroyed by the time of James 's accession , and were in no position to mount an effective challenge to his rule . |
| 10 | Mr Govind said the finance minister had announced that 100% equity would be allowed on some developments if they utilised advanced technology and were in the country 's interest . |
| 11 | Great was the smiting and slaying in short time ; but by reason that the Moors were so great a number , they bore hard upon the Christians , and were in the hour of overcoming them . |
| 12 | They had now almost finished Exodus and were in the middle of The Wind in the Willows . |
| 13 | In Paris , where she and her husband performed for refugees , the theatre was so crowded that there was no room for many parties of children who had lost their parents and were in the care of relief organisations . |
| 14 | A group of revolutionary officers had been drinking and were in the room with her , some in a state of undress . |
| 15 | ‘ I invited you because your mother told me that you 'd realised there were more things in life than work — at long last , ’ Simon said pithily , ‘ and were in the market for some socialising . ’ |
| 16 | The cabinets are closely related to a pair in the Getty Museum and were in the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild at the Schloss Schilldersdorf , Silesia , earlier this century . |
| 17 | Then the lady wept a little , and said that the tailor had now twice saved her , and was in every way worthy of her hand . |
| 18 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 19 | By the seventies , and part-and-parcel of the demise of consensus and the rise of conviction politics , the New Right had grown and was in a position of political and intellectual prominence . |
| 20 | She felt his hands , warm and caressing , moving from the back of her , and was in a land of breath-held enchantment when his moving , caressing fingers stroked and captured her full , throbbing breasts . |
| 21 | Alan , who works for BT in the city centre , explained : ‘ I could not get into my normal parking spot and was in a rush for a meeting at work , so I used a meter at the Pier Head . |
| 22 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 23 | If a family held a small amount of land and was in a village with a large number of households , its strips could be so small and scattered that too much time was spent in travelling between strips . |
| 24 | ‘ She had lost a lot of blood and was in a state of shock lying on the footpath at the end of an alleyway . |
| 25 | ( d ) She had for the previous 24 hours been receiving narcotic drugs and antibiotics and was in a state in which it was necessary to give her oxygen . |
| 26 | The ARC was defensive — its own existence being threatened by the Region administration , and was in no mood to rock the political boat by publishing a ‘ sensitive ’ report , i.e. one which revealed the inadequacies of their own policies , and would incur the displeasure of the corporate investors in the region . |
| 27 | The animal was struggling with a loose shoe and was in no mood to break into a trot . |
| 28 | Me , I had plenty on my mind , including a desperate hangover , and was in no mood for complications . |
| 29 | And Juan — as Alejandro ( who as one who lived in a glass house and was in no position to hurl polo balls ) pointed out — might well have died of sexual excess . |
| 30 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |