Example sentences of "in [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another essential item then very much in vogue was the family bible ; the Titfords duly acquired one , ornately gilded and standing in its own glass-topped case , and proceeded to enter births , marriages and deaths as they occurred . |
| 2 | For many widows , the sudden drop in income was the greatest worry they had to face , and that she was spared , although steeply rising costs , in fuel and rates alone , meant that the old house would be expensive to run . |
| 3 | Inherent in Socratism was the optimistic insistence that life must make rational sense , whereas true tragedy was pessimistic and found in life only " terror " and " absurdity . " |
| 4 | Morals and Manners in Islam was the only book on the subject he had been able to find in Wimbledon public Library . |
| 5 | Perhaps , Bennett argues , the finding that so little use was made of exploratory methods in teaching was the teachers ' reaction to the presence of HMIs . |
| 6 | The major step in agriculture was the opening-up of the rich lands of the Ukraine as Russian rule was consolidated against Turks , Crimean Tatars , and Cossacks , while the establishment of outlets to the Baltic and then to the Black Sea greatly expanded foreign trade . |
| 7 | The clearest single advance in technique was the introduction in the mid seventeenth century of preservation in spirits of wine . |
| 8 | The price which the clergy paid for exemption from taxation in parliament was the encroachment of the king upon , and the dominance of his business within , their own provincial synods . |
| 9 | After Fisher died Ramsey said that the time in their lives when they were closest in friendship was the time when he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chester . |
| 10 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 11 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 12 | An excellent example of this in practice was the East Anglian Rubber Windmill exercise described in Chapter 5 , demonstrating what could happen in the " internal market " if all pursued their private ends regardless of the public consequences . |
| 13 | Another change which took place with the anticipated increase in continental traffic in mind was the merger of Railfreight Distribution with the former BRB subsidiary Freightliners Ltd in 1988 . |
| 14 | What he obviously had in mind was the manoeuvre carried out by horsemen displaying their skill at a gymkhana . |
| 15 | In an attempt to offer practical guidance on the meaning of the distinction , the Minister of Trade in the Committee stage , suggested that what the government had in mind was the difference between ‘ day-to-day knowledge ’ and ‘ knowledge of important factors which , when revealed to the market , [ would ] shift the price [ of the shares ] ’ . |
| 16 | The relation of this excess to the present study has a rather complicated history — with the excess near Sellafield , it originally suggested the population mixing hypothesis , but what was then in mind was the mixing connected with the nuclear industry ; an analogy with a new town was drawn . |
| 17 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 18 | The bird in question was the common cuckoo . |
| 19 | What 's more , the girl in question was the Spanish girl who 'd been the cause of his being sacked by the Shakespeare School . |
| 20 | Judge Schucking may have been influenced by the fact that the Convention in question was the General Act of Berlin , which had been concluded by the Powers to settle issues of colonial rule in Africa , and thereby to lessen friction between them . |
| 21 | The cause or matter in question was the application to the court to exercise its powers under the Allied Forces Act and the order , and to deliver the appellant to the Dutch military authorities . |
| 22 | Secondly , it appeared from Pigs Marketing Board v. Redmond ( Case 83/78 ) [ 1978 ] E.C.R. 2347 that where the aim in question was the attainment of the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy , the agricultural objectives of the E.E.C . |
| 23 | The vessel in question was the old favourite , a converted fishing vessel , destination unknown on leaving the Thames , in which our Investigation Officers were very interested . |
| 24 | The quicksand in question was the boiling tumult of feeling and unrest in post-war Vietnam , brought about by the confusion caused by the split within the country . |
| 25 | In the case described in our earlier debate by the hon. Gentleman , the local authority would make its decision to withdraw or not to withdraw discount on the basis of whether it thought that the dwelling in question was the auntie 's sole or main residence . |
| 26 | The Caesar in question was the almost forgotten Flavius the Noseless . |
| 27 | The early style of ships used to move coal in quantity was the collier brig and the collier barque . |
| 28 | Violence in sport was the subject of growing debate . |
| 29 | Amongst the points in issue was the question whether , if the appeal was validly brought , the court had jurisdiction to make an order for costs . |
| 30 | What these men gained in return was the prestige and professional recognition that came from practising at one of the teaching hospitals . |