"was in exploring" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who was actively engaged in the act of searching or discovering in various ways, for example: She was in exploring the new city for most of the day.
Cultural factors are still present, but her main interest was in exploring the more primal, animalistic properties of touch.
Her interest was in exploring "terrorism, or revolutionary action, not from the point of view of left or right, but of extremism – whether in love, politics or religion; an attraction to danger against a safer, cosier life".
But a set of Fantasias showed that Ripa's main interest was in exploring a melody's harmonic implications in increasingly thick textures, though, like dall'Aquila, he was comfortable creating detailed, speedy passagework as well.
While the outlines of Lulu's story sound like a cautionary tale, Wedekind was far more interested in savaging the male world that creates and rewards a Lulu than he was in exploring her character or warning women not to follow her lead.
The Soviets hadn't made their first aids death public until late in 1988, and the government seemed at least as interested in the fact that the St . Petersburgwoman who died was a prostitute — with many foreign customers — as it was in exploring the medical consequences of her disease.
Yet it was in exploring these challenges that we came to the conclusion that life course area deprivation is best represented by the percentage of all occupied persons in an area with a low social class occupation; as it was the only area measure to have sufficient variability across areas, consistency of meaning, and to be consistently related to other area measures at all study years.
