Example sentences of "[is] in [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it , it 's in many ways a , a book that , that looks two ways , as it were , back and , and forward . |
| 2 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 3 | And I do n't mean to employ it 's in any way dishonest . |
| 4 | Well , this morning it 's our great pleasure to welcome three visitors to the session , one of whom I 'm not entirely sure is welcome because I understand that in fact he 's in some way a slight opposition in that he runs his own training course . |
| 5 | [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way . |
| 6 | It 's in this way I think that Proust clears the ground in order to claim that the artist , be he writer , painter , musician , can capture reality by means not open to and indeed mostly at variance with the discursive intellect . |
| 7 | Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer , he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems , in particular man 's inhumanity to man , through dance . |
| 8 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 9 | Yet the first definition of culture which he now supplies , ‘ that of a refinement of living , including appreciation of philosophy and the arts , among the upper levels of society ’ , is in many ways close to Amold 's ideal . |
| 10 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , since theatre direction is in many ways an ephemeral art , we can never really know how the famous Gründgens/Karajan Zauberflöte really looked and sounded in Berlin in 1938 , though the production was celebrated at the time for the uncanny matching of musical and visual textures . |
| 12 | I know Sibelius is in many ways a very different composer from Bruckner , but I remember you suggesting that there are for you affinities between them . |
| 13 | The odd one out in my list is in many ways the most beguiling . |
| 14 | A character called Barny , an English hotelier , runs the Easo and he is in many ways our father figure in Benidorm . |
| 15 | The relationship between teachers and pupils is in many ways similar to the relationship between other professionals and their clients , but it is suggested here that in an ideal sense ( and in many cases practically too ) it does have special characteristics which are fundamentally opposed to traditional ideas of professionalism . |
| 16 | The ecology of islands is in many ways special : few species ; no large mammalian predators ; large versions of creatures that are generally small , and small versions of creatures that are generally large . |
| 17 | ‘ The picture that emerges from our review of radioactive waste management is in many ways a disquieting one , ’ the Commission noted with cautious understatement , ‘ indicating insufficient appreciation of long-term requirements either by government departments or other organizations concerned . ’ |
| 18 | It is not surprising therefore that the history of thought about the two policy areas is in some ways similar , although that of family planning is in many ways a decade ahead of conservation . |
| 19 | ‘ The actual contract itself is in many ways a bit of a red herring . |
| 20 | In other words , the overall management of an organisation that is in many ways similar to a small hotel or guest house , where most of the guests are extremely frail elderly people . |
| 21 | The resulting charge separation , is in many ways analogous to photosynthetic charge separation . |
| 22 | This process is in many ways analogous to deductive reasoning . |
| 23 | The community element of the strategy marks what is in many ways a unique experiment in physical and economic regeneration . |
| 24 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 25 | The style of the poem is in many ways seventeenth-century , though there are plenty of resemblances to later hymns ; but it could be described as an emblem-poem in the seventeenth-century tradition . |
| 26 | What is in many ways remarkable is that the family had stayed in Frome as long as it had . |
| 27 | This is in many ways an easier , more convenient option , than the individual taking complete responsibility for her actions . |
| 28 | However , the Universe is in many ways a very orderly place : if nine planets orbit a star in roughly the same plane , the tenth can be expected to do likewise . |
| 29 | The changing history of Switchboard is in many ways the history of changing needs of lesbians and gay men and a reflection of a growing understanding of our diversity . |
| 30 | She has a strong , engaging personality and is in many ways a resilient , but sensitive child who thrives on adult attention and who can communicate her feelings and needs effectively . |