Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children in the formal classrooms were taught in a traditional way by teachers who were backed by decades of formality . |
| 2 | In early computers , as mentioned above , input/output ( or transput ) operations were treated in the same way as internal operations ( such as addition ) ; once the operation had been started , the control unit awaited its completion , before continuing with the extraction , decoding , and execution of the next instruction . |
| 3 | In other words , two homologous structures were formed in the same way in two closely-related groups , though their development diverged , in the course of evolution , to adapt the structure for two different lifestyles . |
| 4 | The diminutive but pleasant cliffs at nearby Brassington and Harborough were formed in the same way . |
| 5 | The two parts of the base were joined in the same way , the lower loops of the ropework being added at the same time . |
| 6 | Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously . |
| 7 | Of the 9,009 papers those on which a second preference was indicated were transferred in the same way as Paisley 's surplus . |
| 8 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 9 | The parents were moved in a confused way . |
| 10 | We nevertheless ensured that as individuals they were selected in a random way , by using an earlier sample survey as our starting list . |
| 11 | These schemes have largely replaced trading stamps , which were used in a similar way although trading stamps are now making a comeback . |
| 12 | A possible explanation might be that coins were used in the same way as in Italy but by fewer people , namely only those in urban settlements . |
| 13 | Others were cosmeticized in a strange way , with banked eye-sockets , raised cheekbones , altered brows , modified noses . |
| 14 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 15 | The input strings were segmented in the following way . |
| 16 | These are stray survivals , but it is likely that other forfeitures were authorized in the same way . |
| 17 | These are stray survivals , but it is likely that other forfeitures were authorized in the same way . |
| 18 | Three other countries were represented in a small way , including one man from Romania . |
| 19 | When asked what happened , 62% said they were touched in a sensual way ; 42% experienced someone touching their sex organs ; 33% were masturbated ; 28% were forced to show their sex organs to another person ; 25% were shown another person 's sex organs ; 24% touched another person 's sex organs ; 21% were talked to about sex in an erotic way ; 21% were shown pornographic material ; 16% took part in oral sex ; 10% were flashed at in a public place ; 5% were involved in sexual intercourse ( sometimes including anal sex ) ; and 3% were involved in kissing in a sensual way . |
| 20 | The lectures were delivered in an unpatronising way with useful information . |
| 21 | If the computer could be made to reply vocally and , perhaps , understand spoken commands ; even if the utterances were phrased in the same way as those given through keyboard and screen , the computer would be easier to use . |
| 22 | Mucosal oxyntic biopsy specimens were taken from the same defined area and tissues were processed in the same way as in the present study . |
| 23 | There was my elder half-brother Trevor and my two older sisters Lisa and Lorraine and me , and there were also three cousins who were left in the same way . |
| 24 | Altogether I probably interviewed about five hundred persons ( members , parents , deprogrammers , anti-cultists , media etc ) , but not all these interviews were conducted in a systematic way — that is to say , they were with people with whom I happened to make contact , and may not have been representative of the Unification population as a whole . |
| 25 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 26 | This time , the data were obtained in the following way : |
| 27 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 28 | But presumably men were comforted in the same way , so why are they , unlike women , unable to pass it on ? |
| 29 | It was the deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting , and the temporary dismissal of all human and associational values , combined with the fact that they were working in a conceptual way , relying on memory as much as on visual models , that allowed the Cubists to distort and dislocate figures and objects to a degree hitherto unknown . |
| 30 | I actually was consulted in an orderly way . |