Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] [det] ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the RNLI has a unique appeal , the methods of attracting support are in many ways no different to those used by all the other major charities in the country . |
| 2 | But though the churches are failing , religion is in some ways more powerful than ever , if by ‘ religion ’ we mean some way for people to make sense of their lives , and particularly suffering . |
| 3 | The ‘ happy ’ ending in which the Toons inherit their own ghetto is in some ways positive , but the Toons remain happy infants — has anyone ever tried to imagine the bedroom scenes of Roger and Jessica ? |
| 4 | Ritual is in some ways akin to routine , the process of regularizing actions . |
| 5 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 6 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 7 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 8 | However , the Universe is in many ways a very orderly place : if nine planets orbit a star in roughly the same plane , the tenth can be expected to do likewise . |
| 9 | ‘ The picture that emerges from our review of radioactive waste management is in many ways a disquieting one , ’ the Commission noted with cautious understatement , ‘ indicating insufficient appreciation of long-term requirements either by government departments or other organizations concerned . ’ |
| 10 | Or at least they start , both books really start with the same issue , and the issue in question is in many ways , well , you could argue that it was in many ways fundamental to the social sciences . |
| 11 | This work was in some ways inferior to that done in America , where engineers had developed a disc-cutter with better frequency-range and lower distortion , and their pressings had lower surface-noise as well . |
| 12 | Moreover , a change from philosophy was in many ways to be desired , as it so often is . |
| 13 | Information sharing , access , and security are in many ways the same issue viewed from different angles , with the emphasis varying according to how open an organisation is . |
| 14 | Women of the first group are in many ways utterly dissimilar from each other , differing in language , religion and customs ( see tables 1 and 2 ) , but their roles in the peasant societies they have come from have a lot in common . |
| 15 | The court , the enquiry and the investigation are in many ways similar , and all will include elements of reconstruction . |
| 16 | As one would expect , the reaction is in some ways likely to be the opposite of what we have just described . |
| 17 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 18 | This process is in many ways analogous to deductive reasoning . |
| 19 | This group is in many ways similar to the elderly , except that they are less likely to be able to contribute to care from their own resources and are therefore more likely to receive a free service wherever they are placed . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Picasso 's bronze Head is in many ways a revolutionary work . |
| 21 | One of the organisers , Peter Goodwin , admitted that the day was in many ways depressing . |
| 22 | Regrettably , the NHS dental service was in many ways so successful that most of the practices of my acquaintance depended entirely on NHS fees with only one or two patients willing to pay for the entire cost of treatment . |
| 23 | The Indian civil service was in many ways like a hospital , its people bound together by the struggle to survive in a hostile environment . |
| 24 | The revival was in many ways only a relative one . |
| 25 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 26 | Yalta 's bad name was in some ways a bum rap . |
| 27 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 28 | The characteristics of the controlled authority are in some ways those of the classic bureaucracy , in which rules provide for all cases of need . |
| 29 | The principles of the two applications of games theory are in many ways the same but their results point , in a sense , in opposite directions . |
| 30 | The argument is in some ways quite an attractive one , but since it leads to a rather complex and abstract phonemic analysis it is not adopted for this course . |