Example sentences of "was in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | American policy was in disarray over the appropriate response to the communist threat in the small South-East Asian state of Laos . |
| 2 | This was in accordance with the advice of senior officers , including town clerk John Cobley . |
| 3 | The family , as Josephine Butler put it , was in accordance with the law of God , and the claim that every person should live in accord with their instincts was a departure from ‘ the sternness of the moral law ’ . |
| 4 | In the event the union leaders were wholly justified , as the result of the ballot showed , in their claim that there were no reasons for doubting that the industrial action was in accordance with the wishes of the workers . |
| 5 | This was in accordance with the expressed intention of the Act to merge the previously separate concepts of ‘ delinquent ’ and ‘ deprived ’ into one category of ‘ children in trouble ’ . |
| 6 | Each proposal was subjected to scrutiny to ensure that it was in accordance with the criteria set for Phase 2 Pilot Courses and as a result 96 submissions were adopted . |
| 7 | I can confirm that , although the medical examination was clearly an unpleasant experience for Mrs. X , it was in accordance with the regulations and was conducted with kindness and sympathy throughout . |
| 8 | The decision to reprimand Frank ( a less severe disciplinary measure than either censure or expulsion ) was in accordance with the July 19 recommendation of the House 's Standard of Official Conduct Committee and concluded a 10-month investigation into the affair . |
| 9 | The move was in accordance with the decision by the Philippine Senate in September 1991 not to renew US military leases . |
| 10 | Sir Alfred was in love with the Cosworth idea of making engines for other people , but I felt we had to restore our position in F1 first . |
| 11 | What I hear , people talk to me , took a time but they do , is that the Front was just a vehicle for him , that there were no deeply held principles in it , more that he was in love with the danger , the risk of arrest . |
| 12 | But clearly Manningham was in love with the girl . |
| 13 | Did he feel then that she was in love with the role or the person ? |
| 14 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 15 | Ruth was in love with the island , all of it , and Fernando had been the perfect , loving guide and everything was looking so good … but now this wretched ankle business had made her feel utterly miserable and vulnerable . |
| 16 | As a boy , friends said he was in love with the cadet corps . |
| 17 | Later the film director said he was in love with the young woman , who was adopted by Farrow and Andre Previn when they were married . |
| 18 | Upstairs the red-haired man was in bed with the only woman in the group . |
| 19 | ‘ He was in residence at the local hall , ’ confirms Mitchell , ‘ because he was in bed with the cook . ’ |
| 20 | Phillis was in bed in the room . |
| 21 | That was in Dortmund at the scientific institute there . |
| 22 | While Jim Wells was in Castlewellan for the banned parade in June 1985 , he preferred to negotiate with the RUC rather than be arrested like Foster and Graham or , like Smyth , lie down in front of a Landrover . |
| 23 | Although Sudan 's debt burden eased slightly in the second half of the 1980s , no real turn-around in the economic situation was in sight at the end of the decade . |
| 24 | One afternoon towards the end of the voyage , when the sun was beating down and a fresh northerly wind was speeding the ship southwards , she leant out over the gunwale to look at the low strip of land that was in sight on the port beam . |
| 25 | Only an empty yellow raft was in sight in the lit-up area . |
| 26 | A review carried out last year showed that there was in increase in the number of inshore fishing vessels seeking assistance , and modern navigational equipment and greater speed may be tempting this type of vessel further offshore than is sometimes prudent . |
| 27 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I was in Streatley in the Datsun on that Saturday night . ’ |
| 28 | It appeared to the Commission that , aside from certain cases involving fantasy or malice , a request for service forwarded abroad met a precise need , and it could be presumed that such a request was in compliance with the procedural law of the forum , since this step would otherwise make no sense . |
| 29 | She could see the face of Tim thrust out of the window and guessed that the look of triumph playing over it was in expectation of the early capture of herself ! |
| 30 | That was in keeping with the respect in which she is held for her tireless work , especially on behalf of the world 's children . |