Example sentences of "[adj] way [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously there will be turkey left after the main Christmas meal and there are lots of interesting ways to use this up . |
| 2 | The portrait of Boyd Fortin was the first in Avedon 's project and in some ways set the tone and style of what was to come , linking the Western portraits to previous preoccupations . |
| 3 | This negative attitude towards Palestinian women in particular , and Arab women in general , originates from the Western colonial attitude which has in some ways permeated the Western feminist movement . |
| 4 | Unlike William Morris [ q.v. ] , who was in some ways influenced by him , he realized the importance of co-operation with industry in bringing well-made objects within reach of the widest possible public . |
| 5 | Again , you should look at some ways to manage stress . |
| 6 | I 'm in some ways surprised the non-political groups want to affiliate with with the party . |
| 7 | The affair was in some ways summed up by photographs that appeared in the media in June 1978 of gardai forcing their way past a picket of women and children to allow the American multinational to dump its deadly waste . |
| 8 | It was an important vehicle of terror in the Stalinist period and , by the time of Stalin 's death , had come to occupy a place in the state machinery which in some ways undermined the position of the Communist Party itself ; everyone came under suspicion . |
| 9 | The old Union station had been in a rambling neo-Romanesque style , but the new one was to match the grandest of the American Beaux-Arts school , and in some ways surpass them . |
| 10 | Miranda was relieved that in some ways Xanthe could still be her age . |
| 11 | Their properties are in some ways intermediate between those of the skeletal muscles and the smooth muscles found in other phyla . |
| 12 | Indeed the approach in some ways resembled that of the early Russian school of soil science and involved the recognition of zonal phenomena as the direct results of latitudinal climatic belts ; of azonal phenomena arising from non-climatic control including endogenetic effects ; extrazonal phenomena which occurred beyond their normal range of occurrence such as sand dunes on coasts ; and polyzonal phenomena including those which operate in all regions of the globe subject to the same basic physical laws . |
| 13 | An alternative , and in some ways overlapping argument advanced in justification of the doctor is that his duty to his patient , once he has embarked on treatment , is to continue to care for him until he dies . |
| 14 | Curiously , no English version was prepared , although the Chemical Society in some ways anticipated the Geneva rules in its guidance to contributors and abstractors . |
| 15 | Future teachers need , we believed , understanding of language that is not included in the assumptions transmitted by the culture , and runs in some ways counter to those assumptions . |
| 16 | Shouting ‘ Long live democracy ’ and singing the ‘ Internationale ’ , they were in some ways evoking the spirit of ‘ May Fourth ’ and paving the way for others to take in following years . |
| 17 | ( This process in some ways parallels the emergence earlier in this century of the smaller civic universities — and some overseas ones — from under the wing of London University . ) |
| 18 | She was an accidental leader and in some ways did ‘ hijack ’ the party . |
| 19 | We need to understand how and why male fantasies may commonly differ from female ones , and why the sorts of fantasies I have mentioned , which may in some ways seem antithetical to feminism , may still have a strong appeal to women who have a feminist allegiance . |
| 20 | Constance did n't bother to reply but sat down beside the cat , which in some ways reminded her of her loved one . |
| 21 | It draws on extensive experience of managing similar change in the private sector — namely , at British Airways , whose pilots and cabin crew in some ways resemble doctors and nurses . |
| 22 | The general drift of my own argument , which in some ways resembles that of Marx , is that what is determined is not the form of particular institutional arrangements but certain basic patterns within the structure of person-to-person relationships . |
| 23 | John Gorman says … he 's happy but in some ways disappointed that they 've had to wait so long for a win … it 's been hard week after week … but they 've shown great character and the fans have been very supportive |
| 24 | Ever since the Portuguese annexed Goa in 1510 , the Europeans have had their eyes on or have in some ways dominated Asia and the Pacific ; Western ideas have triumphed here as everywhere else in the world . |
| 25 | Dr Gillian Sutherland 's book Ability , Merit and Measurement has shown how testing in some ways preceded theoretical elaborations of the intelligence quotient — and how this was established by the time of the Spens report of 1938 . |
| 26 | The main idea here has been to exploit the existence of particles known as ‘ muons ’ which in some ways behave like electrons , but are some 207 times heavier and are unstable . |
| 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 | None the less , its economy had in some ways benefited from the diversification and protection from external competition which resulted from international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence by the white minority government in 1965 . |
| 29 | And in some ways mixed ability , with its orientation towards individual approaches to learning , provides the possibility of focusing more on those children more than even was possible in the streamed situation . |
| 30 | In some ways mixed ability , with its orientation towards individual approaches to learning , provides the possibility of focusing more on those children than even was possible in the streamed situation . |