Example sentences of "were in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , again , the Crusades might be seen , as they were in much propaganda , as wars fought to defend fellow Christians suffering physically at the hands of the Muslim world — those who took part being ‘ fired by the ardour of charity ’ towards their brothers . |
| 2 | At the end of the training — a weekend seminar on the philosophy of Rebirthing — all 200 were in each other 's arms , many crying with happiness . |
| 3 | Suddenly , once they were in each other 's arms , our hero and heroine acted like normal human beings . |
| 4 | At one time she felt Charlotte turn towards her husband , and knew that they were in each other 's arms . |
| 5 | They stood in silence for a few seconds ; then they were in each other 's arms . |
| 6 | Their faces were a few inches apart — and then they were in each other 's arms and she whispered , ‘ Yes — I still love you . |
| 7 | For a moment they looked at each other , and then they were in each other 's arms again . |
| 8 | She saw him cross impetuously to his wife , lift her bodily by the waist , and kiss her heartily ; and she knew that before the latch clashed into place they were in each other 's arms . |
| 9 | For one uncertain moment she thought they were in each other 's arms , but as they welcomed her warmly , she decided that she had been mistaken . |
| 10 | Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context . |
| 11 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 12 | Televisions and telephones were in each room . |
| 13 | What was the matter with the young of these days that they were in such haste to destroy themselves ? |
| 14 | Already , in that year , there were 1,145 comprehensive schools , and 32 per cent of all secondary pupils were in such schools . |
| 15 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 16 | For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished . |
| 17 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 18 | Referring their readers to the HMI 's survey of teachers in their first year in the profession , they repeat the survey 's ‘ finding ’ that ‘ the personal qualities of the teachers were in many cases the decisive factor in their effectiveness ’ . |
| 19 | THE Einstein Observatory survey of cosmic X-ray sources a decade ago showed that coronae were common among diverse types of star , and were in many cases more energetic than the Sun 's corona . |
| 20 | At the same time as the evaluation of housing tenure was strengthening one base of working class Tory support , however , certain other bases were being eroded , for instance paternalistic relations within industrial enterprises were in many cases being undermined by the growth of industrial concentration and rise of large multidivisional enterprises , and the development of trade unionism within these . |
| 21 | In this regard , it is relevant that the ‘ places ’ created by the expansion of non-manual/salaried employment were in many cases filled by the sons of manual wage workers , providing them with an avenue for social advancement , rather than , say , by more rapid breeding on the part of previously privileged strata . |
| 22 | They were in many cases cheered on by local bystanders . |
| 23 | Network members were in many cases members of one or several scientific societies , each of which held regular lecture meetings , and more informal discussions . |
| 24 | They were in many cases consumers of Gulf oil and anxious on two counts : first , over the physical security of supplies , lest conflict in the region should provoke a breakdown in the outward flow of oil ; and second , over price increases , which would bring in their train inflation , unemployment and general economic stagnation . |
| 25 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 26 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 27 | The services provided by UNRWA in health , education and relief , were in many ways superior to what was available to non-refugees . |
| 28 | Mutual benefit societies were in many ways the forerunners of building societies . |
| 29 | Before doing so , some longer-run historical trends need to be mentioned briefly , because implicit in much of the writing on the social creation of dependency is the belief that elderly people were in many ways more independent in a pre-welfare state age . |
| 30 | However , as the Puritan and moderate positions were in many ways mutually antagonistic , some towns and villages inevitably witnessed acrimonious and protracted disputes over the character of local worship and divergent attitudes towards what some historians have labelled ‘ maypole culture ’ . |