Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [prep] [det] ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nizan 's literary and political activities are in many ways best understood as a contribution to what he would doubtless have designated as a " cultural revolution " . |
| 2 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 3 | Foreign policy was in some ways still remarkably simple . |
| 4 | Public Relations is in many ways far more complex than advertising , because it functions over a wide spectrum of alternatives for a multitude of purposes . |
| 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 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 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 | The current reforms are in many ways a logical development and strengthening of the Griffiths management philosophy , but the nub of the reforms — the creation of the quasi-market — is a radical new departure . |
| 10 | Before doing so , some longer-run historical trends need to be mentioned briefly , because implicit in much of the writing on the social creation of dependency is the belief that elderly people were in many ways more independent in a pre-welfare state age . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | Political attitudes towards press and radio in independent Tanzania are in many ways typical of those in newly independent African nations . |
| 14 | The fact that many contract computer staff incorporate themselves as one-man companies suggests that to describe them as temporary workers is in some ways misleading . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The characteristics of the controlled authority are in some ways those of the classic bureaucracy , in which rules provide for all cases of need . |
| 17 | As Crocombe ( 1972 ) points out , agricultural practices across this widely-scattered area of small islands were in many ways comparable at the time of the European invasions . |
| 18 | Such open landforms are in many ways more satisfactory for study than , for example , the cultivated , boulder clay country of East Anglia , where natural forms are obscured by woods , hedges and buildings , or the tangled rain forest of the Amazon Basin . |
| 19 | However , as the Puritan and moderate positions were in many ways mutually antagonistic , some towns and villages inevitably witnessed acrimonious and protracted disputes over the character of local worship and divergent attitudes towards what some historians have labelled ‘ maypole culture ’ . |
| 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 | Yalta 's bad name was in some ways a bum rap . |