Example sentences of "acted [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | this would defeat the legitimate expectations of those who had acted in some way in reliance on the old authority ; or |
| 2 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 3 | The Roman Research Trust declined to be interviewed , but a spokesman denied that it had acted in any way improperly . |
| 4 | There is little evidence that people really acted in this way . |
| 5 | He may have acted in this way because the dog was worrying sheep , or because he wanted to annoy the dog 's owner , or simply because he despises all alsatians . |
| 6 | There was already a strong conviction that the electromagnetic force acted in this way , carried by photons ( ’ packed of light ’ ) passing between electrically-charged particles . |
| 7 | I have tried , without , I hope , ignoring economic and social factors , not to let them obliterate what is after all the key to any historical situation — the men who thought or acted in this way or that . ’ |
| 8 | At least , in the circumstances of this play , things certainly would n't have been any better had Marco not acted in this way , and they may have been worse . |