Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] in [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 2 | Foreign policy was in some ways still remarkably simple . |
| 3 | Social distress — a restricted , inadequate or disturbed individual whose social performance is in some way leading to personal difficulties . |
| 4 | The difficulties of applying the goods-specific externality are in this way compounded . |
| 5 | The Indian civil service was in many ways like a hospital , its people bound together by the struggle to survive in a hostile environment . |
| 6 | Although in the O'Keefe model there are indeed specific place cells ( and during the 1980s other researchers were able to identify , in monkeys , cells which fired in response to even more precise inputs , such as photographs of particular faces : the concept of a cognitive map is in many ways the precise antithesis of the ‘ cellular alphabet ’ model of behaviour offered by Kandel . |
| 7 | It is , for example , becoming clear that a family history of left handedness is in some way related to the cerebral organisation of functions . |
| 8 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 9 | A still life is in some ways an ideal picture to describe , as a firm basis can be found in a catalogue of its components . |
| 10 | He said no one working for the Post Office at Middleton at the present time was in any way part of the investigation . |
| 11 | Moreover he doubts whether full disclosure is in any way feasible . |
| 12 | This excellently Greek island is in many ways a sample of the successes and the continuing tribulations of the country as a whole . |
| 13 | Regrettably , the NHS dental service was in many ways so successful that most of the practices of my acquaintance depended entirely on NHS fees with only one or two patients willing to pay for the entire cost of treatment . |
| 14 | The characteristics of the controlled authority are in some ways those of the classic bureaucracy , in which rules provide for all cases of need . |
| 15 | The only practical solution is in some way to limit the calorie intake of those who are overweight , while taking other steps to improve their rate of weight loss . |
| 16 | And even the apparent libertine , if Walter 's My Secret Life is in any way an accurate chronicle , had his own anxieties born of sexual discretion : ‘ Does every man kiss , coax , hint smuttily , then talk bawdily , snatch a feel , smell his fingers , assault and win , exactly as I have done ? ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless , we can perceive that there is a difference between living ( or recently dead ) and nonliving material , and the Kirlian field is in some way involved with this . |
| 18 | Neither Dorothy Heathcote nor Tom Stabler , who had not done drama before he met Dorothy , appreciated that the above kind of thematic planning was in any way unusual . |
| 19 | She was not alone , of course , in making the unwarranted assumption that an unruly Scots noble was in some way a fundamentally different and far more dangerous animal than an unruly French , or English , one ; generations of historians , up to modern times , have seriously distorted the history of Scotland by taking exactly that view . |
| 20 | Although the RNLI has a unique appeal , the methods of attracting support are in many ways no different to those used by all the other major charities in the country . |
| 21 | It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant . |
| 22 | Yalta 's bad name was in some ways a bum rap . |