Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the hour before getting ready she was reminded in ways she would be able to understand in terms of time . |
| 2 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 3 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |
| 4 | But the countess was the sister of the long-standing Yorkist servant Walter Devereux lord Ferrers , which no doubt helped to ensure that the patrimony was handled in ways acceptable to Edward IV . |
| 5 | But the countess was the sister of the long-standing Yorkist servant Walter Devereux lord Ferrers , which no doubt helped to ensure that the patrimony was handled in ways acceptable to Edward IV . |