Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that young man , declaiming and arguing , whom Charles Lamb was famously to invoke : ‘ Come back into memory , like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies , ’ he wrote in 1820 , ‘ with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician , Metaphysician , Bard ! ’ |
| 2 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 3 | I thought I 'd put it there , looked through and could n't find it , we were in every drawer in the blooming house ! |
| 4 | Ours were , in general , rather less well qualified than students in the established departments , but their attainments were in every way comparable . |
| 5 | The fancy bowls , water jugs and chamber pots , now so beloved of antique dealers , were in every bedroom . |
| 6 | We were surrounded by Germans : they were in every town and in the country too . |
| 7 | I thought they were in every pool like , you can m even do it yourself without thinking about it if you want some people |
| 8 | Though these courts were in no sense treated as subordinate by the King 's Courts , the latter would issue prohibitions to prevent them from dealing with matters that did not concern them . |
| 9 | Shaikhs collected money from members of their lineages to support those who had no other support , or who had heavy expenses of certain kinds ( educational or medical , but not business expenses ) which they could not meet ; but these were in no sense an attempt to redistribute resources . |
| 10 | For the ‘ unfortunate disturbances ’ were in no sense ‘ random shocks ’ and the easy money regime was only in part a policy preference . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Modigliani 's style was so entirely different from Picasso 's that the two were in no way rivals . |
| 14 | assured him that his marriage prospects were in no way diminished ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The amount was , however , considerably less than previously , and the guardians were in no way deterred from their intention to develop a workhouse infirmary . |
| 20 | Although Durkheim did not see economic developments as unimportant , for him they were in no way basic . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Does he not realise the bitterness of the steelworkers who were in no way consulted ? |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | In reality , the party and government leaders were in no way dependent on the assembly ; parliamentary approval was formal and automatic . |
| 25 | These were in no way representative of the national picture , since relatively few authorities had adopted care programming at the outset of our enquiry . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Something which as the Argentines were in no circumstances , ah , going to settle for , ah , and anybody could have told them that , and anybody knew that . |
| 29 | The New Testament writers were in no doubt that Jesus , through his resurrection , dealt a mortal blow to death and freed us from its influence and power . |
| 30 | Sometimes the word is for us and at other times instead of us ; but whatever the word , the New Testament writers were in no doubt that Jesus was Saviour of the world , and that his death was the crucial victory of God . |