Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his section of the AB , Hincmar attributed many crucial diplomatic and political activities to queens : since some were activities of which he approved , and only some queens were credited with such roles , it seems less likely that he obsessively exaggerated the nefarious influence of women ( though misogyny was in the air breathed by medieval churchmen ) than that he accurately portrayed a feature of Carolingian political life underrecorded by other contemporary writers . |
| 2 | My car was in the air , flying … |
| 3 | And while one marriage was in the air , many others would likely be arranged . |
| 4 | Pike 's bum was in the air as he groped his way forward . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 7 | When discussion of a reconvened Geneva conference was in the air in December 1973 , the government stated that ‘ Israel will not return to the lines of June 4 , 1967 , which were a temptation to aggression . ’ |
| 8 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 9 | Larry 's hospital drama was off the air in six weeks . |
| 10 | Drama was in the air . |
| 11 | Mm , I came to Harlow with my parents , when my husband was in the Air Force |
| 12 | Political and social revolution was in the air and Koreans of all political persuasions longed for unity . |
| 13 | In France invasion was in the air at court and anyone who put forward a promising scheme was sure of an audience . |
| 14 | During the 1970s television was on the air between thirty-five and forty hours a week . |
| 15 | Oranges had been peeled , and their dew was in the air . |
| 16 | The smell of Dada 's cut grass was in the air . |
| 17 | The stars were already pricking the sky , and frost was in the air . |
| 18 | Family planning was in the air ; newspapers and women 's magazines were openly discussing family planning by the 1930s in a manner which would have been considered outrageous just ten years before . |
| 19 | Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions . |
| 20 | Sex was in the air all the time . |
| 21 | MAPLE LEAF SWAG Patrick Eggle JS Legend There is usually a bonding period of at least a couple of weeks between a player and a new instrument , but this time romance was in the air straight away and … what the hell … |
| 22 | But romance was in the air not only for the Royal Couple . |
| 23 | Meanwhile romance was in the air down the road at Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust with feathered flirting everywhere you looked . |
| 24 | British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high . |
| 25 | Apocalypse was in the air , and in strict accordance with the traditions of this connected history of fears of British decline , the ghosts of Rome were summoned to make their judgement . |
| 26 | LOVE was in the air when two lucky Canadians scooped first prize in a special bridal competition . |
| 27 | Not many of them were in evidence yesterday , when the first proper snap of autumn was in the air . |
| 28 | For a large part of 1975 a major transmitter in Zambia 's Copperbelt was off the air because of the lengthy procedures involved in the purchase of a small spare part . |
| 29 | They moved onto dinosaurs when the film was in the air , and now they ca n't make enough to meet demand |
| 30 | THE WHIFF of intrigue was in the air at Twerton Park . |