Example sentences of "was in [det] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 2 | Holiday was in many ways the first modern pop vocalist . |
| 3 | A woman 's sexuality indeed was in many ways the key to her economic survival . |
| 4 | He was in many ways the wrong choice in the harsh atmosphere of 1952 . |
| 5 | But the Doncaster Cord was in many ways the most interesting . |
| 6 | The stencilled letters and numerals in Braque 's Portugais are the prelude to the introduction of collage into Cubist painting , and collage was in many ways the logical outcome of the Cubist aesthetic . |
| 7 | His apparent obsession with Swindon Town was in many respects the beginning of the end . |
| 8 | Miss Danziger also had it in her favour that she was in all things the opposite of Bo-Bo . |
| 9 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 10 | In 1893 the eminent physiologist J. S. Burdon-Sanderson ( 1828–1905 ) told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that ‘ oecology ’ was one of the three great divisions of biology , along with physiology and morphology , and was in some ways the most attractive of the three because it came closest to the spirit of what had once been called the ‘ philosophy of living nature ’ . |
| 11 | Certainly the ambition was in both cases the same : in a lecture which he gave soon after finishing The Cocktail Party he declared that he only wished to write plays " of contemporary life " . |