Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] some way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 2 | There is a distinct possibility that perinatal trauma interacts in some way with an inherited predisposition towards schizophrenia to increase psychiatric risk . |
| 3 | With closed questions , the researcher has in some way limited the possible responses . |
| 4 | Furthermore , if outside agencies — such as courts or social workers decide that socialization has in some way been inadequate , it is to the family that they are most likely to turn in the allocation of blame or responsibility . |
| 5 | recognises that an original lessee may have a defence if the assignee not performing has in some way been absolved from performance . |
| 6 | It 's the one room that has in some way to accommodate the changing interests of all members of the family ; it 's also the room that is most on show , the room where your guests stay the longest . |
| 7 | Frankly , it is a travesty of the truth that the BBC in the past four or five years has in some way been tamed . |
| 8 | Having ruled out the alternatives we are left with the conclusion that the context-specificity seen in fig. 4.5(a) depends in some way on the context functioning as a retrieval cue . |
| 9 | that represents in some way erm about three to one . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The problem of course with Christology for feminists is that Jesus was a male human being and that thus as a symbol , as the Christ , or as the Second Person of the trinity , it would seem that ‘ God ’ becomes in some way ‘ male ’ . |
| 13 | Erm I I think that one of the erm , drawbacks in using animals for any kind of testing is that it sort of precludes in some way using alternatives . |
| 14 | It is tempting , too tempting in fact , to read into this more ideologically restrained account a certain disillusionment with communism and communist party politics which prefigures in some way Nizan 's break from the party a few months later . |
| 15 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 16 | The person who receives the message as a phone call , a letter , a printed book , or a shout , receives the message perfectly or imperfectly , decodes it , and reacts in some way . |
| 17 | The alert and attentive reader , however , usually brings critical attention to what is being read and reacts in some way . |
| 18 | ‘ Every visitor to the house reacts in some way , ’ says Philip . |