Example sentences of "[noun prp] was in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 2 | Along the Cumberland coast an industrial fringe was already well established , based on deposits of coal and iron ore : Whitehaven was in those days an important port . |
| 3 | But despite her impeccable bed-cred , Karen was in most respects a very conventional person compared to someone like Manuela . |
| 4 | Coleridge was in many ways far ahead of his time . |
| 5 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 6 | Leda Collor de Mello said that her son Pedro was suffering from a " severe emotional crisis " , and removed him as the director of the family 's media empire , whose pre-eminence in the north-eastern state of Alagoas was in some quarters reported as being threatened by business activities of Farias . |
| 7 | Crookes was in many ways unlike other English men of science . |
| 8 | Italy was in many ways at the heart of musical activities during the eighteenth century ; composers came from other countries to study at the various centres and Italian music was exported the world over . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Huaiwiri was in some ways exceptional : Salha was in a formidably strong genealogical position , and the oasis had a small population . |
| 12 | Agriculture in Germany was in many ways a mixture of old and new . |
| 13 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 14 | CCA was in these figures for just three months and fine art contributed £849,000 of profits , up from £156,000 . |