Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] [det] ways [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humphrey ( 1976 ) has argued convincingly that animals are in many ways over-equipped for the inanimate environment , but the environment provided by other animals ( particularly clever ones ) is especially complex , difficult to predict and difficult to control . |
| 2 | Their properties are in some ways intermediate between those of the skeletal muscles and the smooth muscles found in other phyla . |
| 3 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 4 | Yet the broader developments were in some ways preceded by an important new kind of cultural formation which has to be distinguished from national groups . |
| 5 | His taste in furniture was in some ways mirrored by his choice of restaurants . |
| 6 | The affair was in some ways summed up by photographs that appeared in the media in June 1978 of gardai forcing their way past a picket of women and children to allow the American multinational to dump its deadly waste . |
| 7 | The main conclusion drawn is not only that modern scientific notions of time are in many ways puzzling and paradoxical ; even more important for Shallis is that the essential quality of our actual experience of time is left out of such treatments altogether . |