Example sentences of "way [pron] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways I envy what has happened to Paul Downton who , while he was with Middlesex , spent a couple of winters with James Capel , the City stockbrokers . |
| 2 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 3 | Well erm in some ways I mean what we 're doing in , in social say , most of that you can pick up out of the textbook where it 's discussed in , in rather , slightly more detail and I stick in , you know , different kinds of examples and things like that to try and |
| 4 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 5 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 6 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 7 | In fact in some ways I feel I almost got more out of appraising Kevin and Bill than I did out of Alan appraising |
| 8 | ‘ In some ways I feel you are so lucky , Lavinia , to have kept Araminta by you all these years . ’ |
| 9 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 10 | erm in many ways I think she is . |
| 11 | But in many ways I think I 'm okay . |
| 12 | But there will obviously be sort of an ongoing training and so on because I , I know that in some ways I think it 's been very mixed and I qu I put |
| 13 | In other ways I suppose I could be said to prosper tolerably well . |
| 14 | ‘ In some ways I have my mother in mind . |
| 15 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 16 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 17 | Types of racism which do not conform to this model are either ignored , marginalized , or ‘ redescribed ’ in ways which deny their independent significance . |
| 18 | In both books , neither community were prepared to give the outsiders a chance , it 's their obvious ignorance and old ways which prevent their neighbourhood from being a complete one . |
| 19 | There are many ways to learn about old age from older people , ways which put them into the ‘ expert ’ role . |
| 20 | Together with colleagues from North America , we were challenged by a Native Canadian theologian to share our faith in ways which affirm our common humanity and do not destroy other cultures . |
| 21 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 22 | The HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 suggests that ‘ all that pupils learn should be practical , and therefore relevant , in ways which enable them to build on it or use it for their own purposes in everyday life ’ . |
| 23 | I John gives several other ways which enable us to be confident of our new status . |
| 24 | But the ordinary events of life — illness , bereavement , infirmity — all heighten our urge to behave in ways which echo our childhood needs . |
| 25 | This may seem a harsh sentence , but it does highlight how literary studies often seek to purify its canon either by exclusion or , more readily , by representing uncomfortable aspects of texts in ways which reduce their conflict with twentieth-century liberal values . |
| 26 | Companies have sought to deal with these pressures in ways which reduce their fixed overheads , increase their responsiveness to their markets and enhance their capacity to adapt and deal with change . |
| 27 | erm He apparently is adopting the position of a scientific naturalist , and yet all the ways in which he talks about nature are ways which personify it . |
| 28 | The aristocracy travelled much for non-utilitarian purposes , but in ways which have nothing in common with modern tourism . |
| 29 | With a group of people you ‘ boast ’ about all the ways you like your-self . |
| 30 | In some ways you remember it every day . |