Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ours were , in general , rather less well qualified than students in the established departments , but their attainments were in every way comparable . |
| 2 | Marx and Engels and , for that matter , Morgan and their other sources , were in no way peculiar in this belief ; they were representatives of a current of opinion that was almost universally accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century . |
| 3 | This left the throne to be fought over by thirteen competitors and the kingdom vulnerable to the ambitions of Edward I. Wars resulting from territorial ambitions were in no way unusual . |
| 4 | Modigliani 's style was so entirely different from Picasso 's that the two were in no way rivals . |
| 5 | assured him that his marriage prospects were in no way diminished ’ . |
| 6 | Older siblings living in mainland Scotland were not permitted to see or communicate with their younger brothers and sisters , even though they were in no way involved or implicated in the allegations that had been made against the parents . |
| 7 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 8 | The financial demands made by Rome were in no way oppressive , for in an average year the early Tudor kings were exacting two-and-a-half times as much money from the English church as was the pope . |
| 9 | In general the silent cinema made its greatest impact with adaptations of literary classics and , as we have seen , critics in 1914 thought that the films of John Barleycorn and The Jungle were in no way inferior to the original novels and felt in particular that the low-life settings were entirely convincing . |
| 10 | The amount was , however , considerably less than previously , and the guardians were in no way deterred from their intention to develop a workhouse infirmary . |
| 11 | Although Durkheim did not see economic developments as unimportant , for him they were in no way basic . |
| 12 | The second bankruptcy proceedings brought against him , in I906 , were instituted by a man named Scott , claimed by Wilson to be a Shipping Federation official , He was again saved by his parliamentary friends and trade union allies in an indemnity committee which found that the debts which were alleged were in no way personal . |
| 13 | Does he not realise the bitterness of the steelworkers who were in no way consulted ? |
| 14 | His views were modified by his son Reginald , who maintained that the features which suggested Mongolian origins were ‘ accidental and superficial ’ , being associated with others which were in no way characteristic of the Mongol race ( Journal of Medical Science , vol. lii , 1906 , pp. 188–9 ) . |
| 15 | In reality , the party and government leaders were in no way dependent on the assembly ; parliamentary approval was formal and automatic . |
| 16 | These were in no way representative of the national picture , since relatively few authorities had adopted care programming at the outset of our enquiry . |
| 17 | On April 10 , the Press Council declared that the proposed changes were reminiscent of the 1925 Takrir-e Sukun ( law of silence ) and " were in no way relevant to 1990s Turkey " , while on April 11 the Journalists ' Association accused the government of wanting to " destroy the right of reporting altogether " . |
| 18 | At the trial of the action in 1979 Reeve J declined to take into account the supervening spinal disease and awarded damages on the basis that the plaintiff had been capable of light work , not on the basis that he had been incapable of work since 1976 in consequence of a disease for which his employers were in no way responsible . |
| 19 | That was not to be and the financial problems facing USA rugby at this time were in a way mirrored on the field where the Eagles ' shortcomings , rather than any great brilliance on Canada 's part , determined the result with the 23 point margin between the teams the biggest in the 16-year history of the event . |
| 20 | Those secret letters were in a way Judith 's lifeline . |
| 21 | And er I think some people might have called it a slum , I suppose they were in a way . |
| 22 | So they were in a way acknowledging th that sort of work or approach . |
| 23 | ‘ I could n't see his face very well because the leaves and branches were in the way , but I saw him climb the fence and steal the bulbs . ’ |
| 24 | But he could not give supporting fire to protect the civilian drivers because women and children were in the way . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was in every way so much easier than here , but then the love required was simpler , more childlike . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |