Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mutual benefit societies were in many ways the forerunners of building societies . |
| 2 | Agriculture in Germany was in many ways a mixture of old and new . |
| 3 | It was in many ways a mood rather than a movement , a transient phenomenon with shallow roots in the constituencies , and particularly weak in local government . |
| 4 | But this was in many ways a blessing . |
| 5 | The immediate post-Aden period , 1927–30 , was in many ways a period of momentous change in Nizan 's lifestyle , a moment when his individual existence stabilised , a moment of transition when a line was drawn between his bourgeois past and his communist future : 1928 , the birth of his daughter , Ann-Marie ; 1929 , the death of his father ; 1930 , the birth of his son , Patrick ; 1929 , the passing of the agregation and the consequent termination of his formal education ; 1929–30 , collaboration in La Revue marxiste . |
| 6 | Robert Indiana was in many ways a pioneer in the use of words as the chief subject matter for art , making what you read just as important as what you ‘ see ’ . |
| 7 | A woman 's sexuality indeed was in many ways the key to her economic survival . |
| 8 | The WEU , which began life in May 1955 , was in many ways an irritant to Britain , placing upon it a burden as great as membership of the EDC might have done , with the pledge to maintain British forces in West Germany . |
| 9 | According to Gregory the division of 561 was in many respects a return to that of 511 ; Charibert I received Paris , Guntram Orléans , Sigibert I Rheims and Chilperic I Soissons . |
| 10 | In fact , he was in many respects an enigma . |
| 11 | His apparent obsession with Swindon Town was in many respects the beginning of the end . |
| 12 | Miss Danziger also had it in her favour that she was in all things the opposite of Bo-Bo . |
| 13 | It was in other words a body of insiders . |
| 14 | One of the contradictions in Minton 's character was that the anti-authoritarian rebel remained wedded to a person who needed to belong and who , schooled by his grandmother , was in certain situations an upholder of convention and correct form . |
| 15 | The announcement last summer that South Africa 's twenty one year cricketing exile was over was in sporting terms an event of major proportions and significance . |
| 16 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 17 | For the Muslims of Central Asia the October revolution was in important respects a retreat . |
| 18 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 19 | Though he was in some ways a traditionalist , interested in painting epic scenes in a continuation of the grand European manner , he was also a modernist , an admirer of Picasso from whom he had learnt to analyse the rudiments of representation in order to embellish them , to make them rich or austere . |
| 20 | Yalta 's bad name was in some ways a bum rap . |
| 21 | He was in some ways a sort of humanoid Winnie the Pooh ( the bear with very little brain ) without any of Pooh 's more lovable characteristics — although no one in their right mind would tell him so ! |
| 22 | So even in the first exploratory or formative phase , when human values were largely suppressed , the Cubism of Picasso and Braque was in some ways an expression of the private life and experience of the painter . |
| 23 | But the chief aim was to construct what was in some ways an analogue of the dynamics of the personnel situation which could be watched almost while it moved . |
| 24 | But although Harold Wilson was in artistic matters a Philistine , he was better than the later Philistines , since he recognised that the ambit of British culture should not be controlled by his own personal predilections , and he responded with speed and generosity to applications from Jennie Lee for better support for the arts . |