Example sentences of "it [verb] in [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 2 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 3 | If you or one of your sons incline to continue that business you may , I believe , send the same number of boxes here , that you used to send to England ; because England will then send here , for what it wants in that way . |
| 4 | A third State is affected by a treaty as a matter of fact when the treaty necessitates it acting in some way in response ( even if its preferred response is to do nothing ) . |
| 5 | It 's rather nice to think that it happened in that way , that it was done overnight . |
| 6 | It happened in this way . |
| 7 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 8 | My argument here with Dennett is that if he intends interpretations ( a ) or ( b ) ( a textual quotation here would be beside the point , since these distinctions are not made in his paper in that form ) , then those are inferior explications of consciousness to a process one in terms of level : ( b ) because it lacks the ‘ unity ’ requirement , and ( a ) because , although it could meet all the necessary conditions set out earlier , it seems in some way arbitrary , just as did Minsky 's supreme organizing module . |
| 9 | It contrasts in this way both with middle-class speech and with many of the dialect regions of south , mid and west Ulster . |
| 10 | they , those people do n't like it altered in any way do they ? |
| 11 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 12 | As Keynes wrote " 'The Treaty includes no provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , nor does it promote in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the allies themselves ; no arrangement was reached at Paris to adjust the system of the Old World and the New " . |
| 13 | It struck in this way in 1953 and in 1936 . |