Example sentences of "[prep] more way " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's when he 's not stuffing himself with breakfast , lunch and dinner and occasionally calling a meeting of his cronies to think of more ways of misusing the club funds and treating the servants as he believes they should be treated . ’ |
| 2 | This is true in more ways than simply obtaining an Equity card . |
| 3 | It was the voice of a woman released , in more ways than one , from a life of obedient acquiescence to a stronger personality . |
| 4 | ‘ I tell myself she 's got my number — in more ways than one . |
| 5 | This is appropriate in more ways than one , since , like McTaggart , Tabner has remained somewhat apart from the more experimental tendencies of his time . |
| 6 | As in the Fall narrative , which it resembles in more ways than one , there seems to be no going back ; our original innocence , the wholeness of an original bisexuality , is never retrievable . |
| 7 | Fieldhouse drives the point home when he argues that ‘ between 1945 and 1951 Britain exploited those dependencies that were politically unable to defend their own interests in more ways and with more serious consequences than at any time since overseas colonies were established ’ . |
| 8 | Its very upsetting in more ways than one and an awkward time for a change of priests so Fr John will want just a little time to settle in and feel at home . |
| 9 | This shows a scene at one of her famous parties , with the greeting : ‘ Hope you can come in more ways than one . ’ |
| 10 | The 1984 St Leger was classic Piggott in more ways than one , for the run-up to the race had been accompanied by a typical controversy over whether he had filched the big-race ride from a fellow jockey . |
| 11 | This is your baby , in more ways than one , Tammuz . ’ |
| 12 | Lady Elizabeth Hoby was a striking woman in more ways than one ; her portrait seems to endow her with more strength and resolution than actual good looks . |
| 13 | Gardens can be thriving , living things in more ways than one . |
| 14 | Since we live on the crust , it is important to us in more ways than one , but we are only going to consider it in its relationship to events in the mantle , since these explain how Plate Tectonics works . |
| 15 | Philistinism can show in more ways than one . |
| 16 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 17 | She had a breach to heal , and although she was the sufferer , in more ways than one , she was determined that she would do the healing . |
| 18 | It could be their last in more ways than one . ’ |
| 19 | At this stage of the war , before his illness he was much more often out of it till about 4 or 5 am ‘ fire watching ’ in more ways than one . |
| 20 | Education is an economic activity in more ways than one . |
| 21 | It was quite an occasion in more ways than one , for I had not travelled abroad since my arrival in England back in 1967 . |
| 22 | The Roger Rabbit film provided an echo of the old days in more ways than one . |
| 23 | Originally this game was due to be released by Elite as Aquablaster , a speedboat shoot-'em-up resembling Buggy Boy ( a previous release of theirs ) in more ways than one . |
| 24 | A choice that was to change her life in more ways than one . |
| 25 | And he goes prepared ; on the watch for a quick kill , in more ways than one . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It looks as if the Whistler 's getting closer , does n't it , in more ways than one . ’ |
| 27 | And as important as the invention of teeth was , reproduction out of water via the amniote egg was an even more eventful turning point , and in more ways than one . |
| 28 | Things are hotting up — in more ways than one — by 11am when the soup comes to the boil and the lunchtime savouries — frozen sausage rolls or chicken drumsticks which have been defrosted overnight — are popped into the ovens . |
| 29 | So 1799 was a signal year for W. C. T. in more ways than one : he was now a respectable businessman with a respectable wife , and a Freeman of the City to boot — what can they have thought of all that back in Pig Street , Frome ? |
| 30 | ‘ Dead she appeared to be — ’ Tyrell agreed grimly ‘ — a maid , in more ways than one , she was not ! |