Example sentences of "they be [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the more we look at our surroundings , the more we find that they are in many ways far above the average . |
| 2 | Centuries ago they created torsion powered and counter-weighted devices which are their equivalent of cannons , perfecting them to such a degree that they are in many ways superior to crude gunpowder weapons . |
| 3 | Mrs Whitehouse is concerned not only that television companies are using their influence to promote political causes but , as was suggested above , that they are in many ways responsible for the ‘ moral decline ’ which she has identified . |
| 4 | Although ( according to attitudinism ) ethical statements express attitudes rather than beliefs they are in many ways quite comparable to factual statements which express beliefs . |
| 5 | They are in some way dependent on physiological and physical conditions . |
| 6 | They will inevitably feel that it is their own fault — that they are in some way ‘ bad ’ or deserving of such treatment . |
| 7 | Are individuals psychologically disturbed because they are isolated or are they isolated because they are in some way disturbed ? |
| 8 | Are clinicians reluctant to put older people on surgical waiting lists because they are in some way discriminating against older people ? |
| 9 | Ministers who feel that they are in some way personally to blame , will normally resign , as for example Lord Carrington as Foreign Secretary following the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands and ministers such as John Profumo and Cecil Parkinson who were involved in personal scandals . |
| 10 | Or that they are in some way virtuous . |
| 11 | What the men did next is also not disclosed but clearly something impressed the ladies again because before the year was out they spontaneously and bountifully agreed to ‘ always let the men through directly they are in any way pressed ’ , a decision now overtaken by the bye-laws . |
| 12 | ‘ Home owners should not hesitate to lodge appeals if they are in any way unhappy , ’ he said . |
| 13 | As members of a Pathfinder Squadron they were allowed to wear a small brass albatross on their left breast pocket , immediately under their wings , and this was the only indication to anyone outside the RAF that they were in any way out of the ordinary . |
| 14 | Ministers believed the same , asserting as had been asserted when they were created that they were in some way different from the universities . |
| 15 | The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land . |
| 16 | Anton laughed : nothing shocked him ; they were in some ways alike , he and his sister . |
| 17 | Shouting ‘ Long live democracy ’ and singing the ‘ Internationale ’ , they were in some ways evoking the spirit of ‘ May Fourth ’ and paving the way for others to take in following years . |
| 18 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |