Example sentences of "was in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the lady wept a little , and said that the tailor had now twice saved her , and was in every way worthy of her hand . |
| 2 | Peace was alleged to have broken out in the civil war or scrum called the Labour Party , creationism was adjudged not acceptable in Little Rock , Arkansas , schools , the Advanced Passenger Train ran with no passengers aboard to prove how advanced it was in every way except actually working , and the Soviet mission to the UN sued New York for better protection . |
| 3 | The spirit at work in Northern Nigeria was in every respect far closer to that at work in the Punjab in the 1850s than in the United Nations in the 1950s . |
| 4 | An accomplished traveller , linguist , and student of natives ways , unmasker ( in 1924 ) of a Mahdist plot to eject the British from Northern Nigeria , Palmer was in every way Clifford 's idea of what a colonial administrator ought to be . |
| 5 | It 's a yawn to go on about it , but their attitude was in every sense of the word incredible . |
| 6 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 7 | Although appointed under a Labour government , he was in every sense a Thatcherite manager . |
| 8 | But only the very superior pugilists made the ultimate escapes and so it was in every boxing slave 's interest to wring out his best efforts on every occasion . |
| 9 | It was in every way so much easier than here , but then the love required was simpler , more childlike . |
| 10 | , I do not think that his interpretation was in every respect correct . |
| 11 | ( He was in every respect a most economical man , and , like many of his generation , continued to think of taxis as an expensive luxury long after he could easily afford them . ) |
| 12 | Not only was the functioning of the library committee curtailed by industrial action — as it was in every school studied but the many attitudinal and motivational effects of the reorganisation of secondary schooling in the area as a whole must have been significant in shaping the perspectives and actions of those taking up the project challenge . |
| 13 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 14 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 15 | The ship 's cat was in every way appropriate to the Reach . |
| 16 | It was not the lead , but the character was in every episode , and had the advantage of ageing from week to week . |
| 17 | The agenda was in every respect unreasonable for the time allowed and it is remarkable that what was achieved was possible at all . |
| 18 | He was in every sense a man of the cloth . |
| 19 | Then an idea glimmered in one face — the idea of touching the Miracle-Worker — and instantly it was in every mind at once , with young and old alike fighting each other to be first up on the pageant . |
| 20 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 21 | Jack and Jill went up the hill , yes , and Jack fell down with Jill tumbling after also ; But it was in no manner a simple fall . |
| 22 | Aileen was looking dubiously at her husband but he was in no mood to disapprove . |
| 23 | Tixier-Vignancour declined to be described as ‘ anti-semitic ’ ( he once sued Sam White of the Evening Standard for calling him this ) but he was in no danger of winning a ‘ righteous gentile ’ award . |
| 24 | But Bobby Robson said last night that his fitness was in no doubt . |
| 25 | Although he managed to beat the count , Wormald was in no position to defend himself and referee Dave Parris stopped the contest with 35 seconds remaining in the opening round . |
| 26 | Moss Evans , the new Transport Workers ' Union leader , made no effort to rein in his members ' demands , while the Ford company itself , worried by loss of profits , was in no mood for a prolonged fight . |
| 27 | But there was no kitchen and he sure as hell was in no state to get up , so I was wondering where he was going to get something to drink from . |
| 28 | Confining his attention to private-sector issues , Cuckney was in no doubt about what his priorities were . |
| 29 | Finniston also believes that choosing a good successor is an important duty of a chairman , but as chairman of a nationalised industry he was in no position to do so . |
| 30 | But he was in no sense putting on an act . |