Example sentences of "this way in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’ |
| 2 | Most of the square-skulled men I followed in this way in the streets turned out to have very macho faces , conventionally handsome , proud , even disdainful , as if they felt they alone were the lords and masters of the earth . |
| 3 | Armies would leave Lebanon this way in the future , firing into its hinterland to persuade themselves that they could abuse their tormentors to the end . |
| 4 | A show flat is preserved in this way in the Karl Marx Hof in Vienna . |
| 5 | The mechanism of the ‘ waiting list ’ worked in this way in The Netherlands during the twenty-five years up to 1975 ( Rutherford 1986 ) and the logic of rationing scarce custodial space is at the heart of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission . |
| 6 | There were limits to the range of territory that could be held together in this way in the sixteenth century : towards the end of his life Charles V abdicated and retired to a monastery , leaving his German lands and his title of Holy Roman Emperor to the line of his brother Ferdinand , even though he would probably have preferred to keep the entire empire together and leave it to his son Philip . |
| 7 | A particular word-meaning which participates in this way in the meaning of another word will be termed a semantic trait of the second word . |
| 8 | Rooted in this way in the community , the parties are not organizations apart from British society which can , as it were , operate on society from outside . |
| 9 | It is often pointed out that higher education was centrally seen in this way in the nineteenth century , but that very different models were on offer . |
| 10 | Rachaela could not recall coming this way in the past , but she must have done , for she had surely explored all the house . |
| 11 | Mrs Paviour surely would n't walk this way in the dark , would she ? ’ |
| 12 | Although this might seem in one sense to be an unequivocal expression of deference , it becomes clear that it is purely conventional as soon as one imagines an Englishman acting in this way in the presence of his Queen . |
| 13 | You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past . |
| 14 | Having taken the trouble to travel all this way in the first place , he 'd doubtless find some means of coercing her to stay . |
| 15 | Birmingham radicalism had been subdued in this way in the famous riots of 1791 against the radical dissenter Joseph Priestley . |