Example sentences of "[det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two poems could be thought to occupy a common ground which goes some way beyond topography , and includes a stretch of the common ground occupied by imitation . |
| 2 | Nerves afflict everyone in some way , and without them acting would be the poorer . |
| 3 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 4 | As though its presence in some way accused me . |
| 5 | A surprising number of accidents and incidents happen because pilots are in some way not 100% fit on the day in question . |
| 6 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 7 | Well , it was n't an oak-beamed house in the hills , but it was some way out of the city . |
| 8 | Sleep came , knocked her out some way past four . |
| 9 | The disturbing thought that motivates both theories is that , if the world is to be intelligible , it must be mind-like , in the sense that generality — the feature of thought , concepts and meanings — must in some way , run through the world itself . |
| 10 | They therefore concluded that in consciousness itself we are aware of the brain topic-neutrally ; that is , not as the brain , but in some way that is neutral about the nature of the object of our consciousness . |
| 11 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 12 | And is not the thought of , say , blue different from the thought of green in some way which we may one day be in a position to describe , just as we are now able to describe the causal conditions for the experience green which is different from the experience of blue ? |
| 13 | What is being attacked by constructivism is the assumption that these mental contents are , in some way , ‘ consciousness ’ , ‘ mental life ’ - whatever term we wish to use . |
| 14 | Initially the subject will attend to a new stimulus but will then gradually lose interest and start to look away ( habituation ) ; if the stimulus is then changed in some way and if this causes a re-awakening of interest ( dishabituation ) then we can assume that the baby has detected the change . |
| 15 | But the electrophysiological examples I have described go some way to countering Wittgenstein 's negative assertion : ‘ No supposition seems to me more natural than that there is no process in the brain correlated with associating or with thinking ; so that it would be impossible to read off thought-processes from brain-processes ’ ( Zettel , paragraph 608 , Anscombe 's translation , 1967 ) . |
| 16 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |
| 17 | The events in the visual cortex correspond in some way ( see later ) to perception of the flower . |
| 18 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 19 | Woodworking businesses still have some way to go before they can show that they are controlling the hardwood dust emissions from machinery . |
| 20 | Sometimes this can be a considerable expense if the person died some way from where the family wish them to be buried . |
| 21 | But if the choreographer does not understand all the details which go to make the total presentation of a ballet , it can all too easily fail in some way or other . |
| 22 | But such jumps can also travel some way forwards , backwards or sideways and can become sparklingly light when the knees are sharply bent upwards at the height of the jump . |
| 23 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 24 | Moreover they nearly always end in tragedy because the protagonists reach out in some way fur the unattainable . |
| 25 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 26 | This can be done only if the whole body is seen to be involved in some way or other . |
| 27 | All such studies have influenced every form of art in some way . |
| 28 | It may sound rather fanciful to our western world , but many such ancient ideas are associated in some way with established scientific fact . |
| 29 | Terry Eagleton came some way to acknowledging this , in a quasi-refutation of his Althusserian phase , when he included himself among the English Marxist intellectuals who ‘ managed the difficult dialectical trick of appropriating certain Althusserian concepts in blithe ignorance or disregard of their guilty political context . ’ |
| 30 | Graff also invokes the Bakhtinian concept of dialogue , where every utterance implies another utterance , which it answers , attacks , continues , or relates to in some way . |