Example sentences of "it be [prep] [det] ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it , it 's in many ways a , a book that , that looks two ways , as it were , back and , and forward . |
| 2 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 3 | But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint . |
| 4 | It 's er and it is in many ways the kernel of the of the concept . |
| 5 | It is in many ways , a retail management role , broadening your horizons far beyond the traditional catering disciplines and of course , enhancing your future prospects . |
| 6 | But it is in many ways an odd , unbalanced discography , one that would have puzzled Byrd himself , and which puzzles those who know the true length and breadth of Byrd 's achievement . |
| 7 | It is in these ways that The Roaring Girl begins to disclose how , because of the complex connections between sexuality , gender , and class , and specifically between sexual and economic exploitation , economic and political anxieties can be displaced into the domain of the sexual and conversely , the sexual comes to possess enormous signifying power ( though very different from that attributed to sexuality by the radical humanist ) . |
| 8 | I will point out , though , that it is in some ways a very conservative proposal , inviting a return to origins . |
| 9 | It is in some ways surprising that , even in 1965 , the idea of a comprehensive school should still seem novel , and in many ways startling . |
| 10 | However , because so much ‘ neighbouring ’ has been rooted in the notion of mutual exchange , and has always involved a fine balance between closeness and distance , it is in some ways harder for the parties to adapt to a changed role than it is , for example , in a situation where the supporter is defined from the outset as a voluntary visitor . |
| 11 | Sullivan ) , we have to acknowledge that it was in many ways an attractive society , and an admirable one . |
| 12 | It was in many ways a mood rather than a movement , a transient phenomenon with shallow roots in the constituencies , and particularly weak in local government . |
| 13 | Insulated as it was in many ways from the rest of the country , fifteenth-century Sussex developed institutions which dominated its life until the eighteenth century brought other forms of change . |
| 14 | It was in many ways a logical consequence of de Gaulle 's seeking to impose upon his partners and neighbours , and to put into practice , his vision of the future Europe , a vision which contrasted sharply with that of the pioneers of the Six . |
| 15 | In the first instance , it was in many ways conventionally arranged : the teachers and their groups spent most of their time within their home bases where provision was made for most types of activity . |
| 16 | One did not get the same feeling opening tins of cat food , admirable though it was in many ways . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 19 | The subject tends to intimidate many farmers and yet it was in some ways a natural extension of the record keeping and budgeting that already existed on most farms at present . |
| 20 | It was in some ways superior to the verge type . |
| 21 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |