Example sentences of "in a way [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects the Welsh Office is little more than an integrated ‘ regional office ’ bringing together , in a way not present in the English regions , concerns about health , personal social services , education and housing . |
| 2 | We will also be able to illuminate the heart of the democratic process in a way not possible at present . |
| 3 | The truth is that all sacramental thinking and language are symbolic , and precisely thereby , they work in a way not weaker but actually stronger than the way the naive realist calls ‘ real ’ . |
| 4 | As far as I am concerned the whole point of Punch is to attack those in authority when they are seen to be acting in a way not worthy of respect . |
| 5 | And I feel in a way slightly responsible that it was Suzannah . |
| 6 | We saw that there is some evidence that , where women do have command over financial resources in a way normally associated with men , they share in financial support in families in a way rather similar to men . |
| 7 | This dilemma was starkly perceived in June 1950 and answered in a way directly contrary to that anticipated so widely in the spring of 1948 . |
| 8 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 9 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 10 | A verbal answer , which will do as part of the Language game of ordinary life , is that I put the immorality of prostitution upon the mat in a way quite comparable to putting its increase on the mat . |
| 11 | But there is already much evidence that the market is prepared to pay for services in a way quite different from that in which it pays for products . |
| 12 | But as he drew level with Grace Richard gave her a smile which melted her heart , and waved to her in a way entirely peculiar to himself , half way between a naval salute and a discreet gesture with the rolled umbrella . |
| 13 | What the sea does once a year to freshen individual lives our railways are doing every day for the national life , in a way less picturesque but none the less effective . |
| 14 | Written forms , they argue , enable the user to differentiate such functions in a way less possible in oral language . |
| 15 | in a way too close for comfort , a likeness |
| 16 | He had to make it clear that he had learnt his lesson on tariff reform , and to do this in a way as compatible as possible with the dignity of an ex-Prime Minister . |
| 17 | It was a movement in a way as dextrous as John Millington on a good day , speaking of razor-sharp reactions , more like an athlete than an actor . |
| 18 | That made money in a way as important as guns — if they could find enough . |
| 19 | They go about this work , however , in a way somewhat different from computer firms in other nations . |
| 20 | Despite the cluster of problems which emerges when the notion of the syntactic variable is extended beyond phonology , many investigators feel intuitively that some candidate ‘ syntactic variables ’ behave in a way more similar to phonological variables than others . |
| 21 | Whereas in Chomskian grammar the basic approach is ‘ top-down ’ , with transformation rules sometimes applying in ways that require one to consider syntactic environments beyond the immediate focus of application , the picture in Montague grammar is simpler , in a way more congenial to our evolutionary picture . |
| 22 | Our analysis , in a way more direct , specifies necessary connections , but in so doing does provide an account of the nature of laws . |
| 23 | So , on one side , the book was a Catholic churchman proclaiming the cross of Christ in a way more common among Protestants . |
| 24 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 25 | Golfers accept authority in a way more anarchic sportsmen never would . |
| 26 | And whereas previously , under the shock of the immediate offence , he had been fiercely indignant , now there was a savage bitterness which was in a way more alarming . |
| 27 | Editors have naturally concentrated on sources closest to Bach , but there is in the more peripheral ones a wealth of information about the origin and reworking of pieces , as well as performance practice ( notably fingerings and ornaments ) for which musical sources can shed light on specific details in a way more generalized literary documents rarely can ; and on the estimation of Bach 's music by his contemporaries and immediate successors . |
| 28 | The finale shifts styles in a way now familiar and fashionable through composers such as Schnittke . |
| 29 | When he came to write Paradise Lost , Milton on four occasions deliberately spoke in his own person in a way very close to the opening of Lucidas , or to the programme which that last sentence suggests to us . |
| 30 | The rules of a society and the trusts which bind its property will , in many cases , fetter its freedom of action and the application of its property , in a way very similar to the restrictions which the doctrine of ultra vires imposes on a corporation ; and in the case of some unincorporated societies , such as registered Trade Unions and Friendly Societies , which have received a peculiar status by Statute , the rule of ultra vires has been held directly applicable . |