Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is in many ways an easier , more convenient option , than the individual taking complete responsibility for her actions . |
| 2 | It seems to be generally agreed that this is in some way ‘ special ’ , and peculiar to English . |
| 3 | This is in some ways a departure for many house churches which have been strongly pastoral in emphasis . |
| 4 | But this was in many ways a blessing . |
| 5 | ‘ This was in some way part of the whole thing , that I 'd blurt out what I 'd done and she 'd ask to see and I 'd have it on hand to show her . ’ |
| 6 | This was in some ways just as dramatic as that of the 1980s , if only because of the very large warships — and their great number — being deployed in the area . |
| 7 | When he looked at her like that she was n't at all sure that this was in any way a ‘ soft ’ assignment . |
| 8 | A lack of mobility on the part of many within the cities has inevitably meant that an increasing number of those remaining are in some way disadvantaged ( Redfern , 1982 ; Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 10 | These are in many ways ideal , since they aim at comprehensiveness , are arranged in classified order , and give a good deal of information with each entry . |
| 11 | Secret diplomacy , bribery , the interception of correspondence — none of these was in any way peculiar to the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | The distinction between public law and private law interests seems to rest on the assumption that the latter are in some way more important and more worthy of protection than the former . |
| 13 | Since Manning and Upward are in this way for the moment denied us , I shall make do with two other names : Maurice Hewlett and Laurence Binyon . |
| 14 | The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems . |
| 15 | On the other hand , what older people have in common is in some ways more striking than the class differences between them . |
| 16 | It has been argued that the spiritual prestige of the papacy was tarnished by its use of temporal strength to achieve its ends , but that is in many ways a modern concept . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 19 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |
| 20 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 21 | However , both are in some ways representative of towpaths generally in that ( a ) these canals pass through some areas of concentrated population — Scotland 's Central Belt having a total of over two million , and these canals pass right through it — and ( b ) parts of the towpaths are urban and others completely rural . |
| 22 | The insensitivity of the Benthamites , who promoted the Act , lay in their refusal to see how bitterly the poor would resent becoming the designated victims of the Act , as if their love for the dead were in some way inferior to that of ‘ their betters ’ . |
| 23 | The works of Metzinger , Gleizes and Le Fauconnier had been hung together by chance at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 , but the common characteristics which the critics saw in their styles , and the excitement expressed by the poets and authors at Mercereau 's and at the Closerie des Lilas over the possibilities of a new school of painting , seem to have made the painters aware of each other ; Apollinaire and Salmon in particular , although both were in many ways insensitive to painting , realized that Picasso 's latest style contained the elements of a new art , and felt that the work of several other painters was evolving in a similar direction . |
| 24 | Indeed , one gets the impression that his painting of 1906 is in some ways a synthesis of elements derived from a whole variety of different types of ancient art : the drawings on Greek white-ground vases , archaic Greek and Etruscan marbles and bronzes , and Cycladic and Mesopotamian figurines . |