Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.

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1 find the , is up that way somewhere , that 's fine , that 's one , argument of that is , four over five inverse time .
2 And I do n't mean to employ it 's in any way dishonest .
3 Well , this morning it 's our great pleasure to welcome three visitors to the session , one of whom I 'm not entirely sure is welcome because I understand that in fact he 's in some way a slight opposition in that he runs his own training course .
4 [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way .
5 It 's in this way I think that Proust clears the ground in order to claim that the artist , be he writer , painter , musician , can capture reality by means not open to and indeed mostly at variance with the discursive intellect .
6 That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received .
7 ‘ I think that there is a real risk that an imaginative child may get the impression that a bit of palm is in some way a magical charm , ’ he considered .
8 As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it .
9 The idea that God is good might owe a great deal in those traditions to a view that God has done good things in the world Himself — that God Himself is in some way an actor on the world stage .
10 His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn .
11 People often feel that it is in some way distasteful deliberately to use your behaviour to influence others and this also leads to the conclusion that manipulating behaviour is unethical .
12 One species , perfectly good to eat , looks like another that is in some way nasty , and is assumed to derive some protection against predators thereby .
13 Abortion usually provides the last chance for a woman to opt not to have a child ( unless she is prepared to offer it for adoption ) either for social reasons or because the fetus is in some way malformed .
14 On the other hand ( or should it be ‘ in the other hand ’ ? ) men believe that the penis is in some way a magical and versatile instrument that all men are proud to possess and all women should be desperate to acquire .
15 Social distress — a restricted , inadequate or disturbed individual whose social performance is in some way leading to personal difficulties .
16 Nevertheless , we can perceive that there is a difference between living ( or recently dead ) and nonliving material , and the Kirlian field is in some way involved with this .
17 If we listen acutely , we hear that everyone speaks a language that is in some way unique .
18 For situations when all other attempts to suggest a word have failed , it would be preferable to provide a string of characters which is in some way a best guess , even if that string is not a word known to the lexicon .
19 For as he increases the number of categories in terms of which phenomena are to be explained , he at the same time multiplies the number of relations between them ; and since each factor is in some way dependent on a large number of others , the resulting range of possible variations is immense .
20 It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for .
21 Each standard is in some way deficient .
22 Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience .
23 The idea that control of ‘ inferior ’ governmental bodies and officers by the higher echelons of government is in some way particularly desirable is reflected in the history of the so-called ‘ prerogative ’ orders : certiorari , prohibition , and mandamus .
24 And in all three , what is autonomous ( or authentic ) is what is seen as originating in some way from within the self ; what is in some way untainted by the conditioning or manipulation to which a woman has previously been subjected .
25 It assumes , firstly , that there is something unique or special about the family in such a society , and , secondly , that this uniqueness is in some way associated with an easily recognizable phenomenon called ‘ industrialization ’ .
26 The bible is considered to be inspired literature which is in some way normative for the religion .
27 There are arguments about whether we have some ‘ primordial ’ sense of the world which is in some way independent of the symbol systems we use , or to what extent our visual or aural perceptions of painting or music depend on or are penetrated by the knowledge we have through such systems .
28 Retributivism claims that it is in some way morally right to return evil for evil , that two wrongs can somehow make a right .
29 The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance .
30 I do not accept the intervener 's argument that it is in some way undignified for the decision of a visitor on the basis of advice from an eminent judge to be subject to judicial review and that if certiorari is held to be available senior judges will not wish to give such advice .
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