Example sentences of "[det] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | My hon. Friend 's Bill would provide that simpler way . |
2 | ‘ Why is he smoking , and waving his arms about in that awful way ? ’ |
3 | It 's obvious , Sir John , ’ he continued , ‘ our murderer must be someone who has lived in Outremer , someone who knows about the Hashishoni — the flat sesame seed cake , and that awful way of humiliating the corpse of an executed criminal . ’ |
4 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
5 | I think his pleasure was merely to talk about it in that calm way to a completely ignorant young girl . |
6 | It used to be , according to the Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters in that charming way Americans have , ‘ get us a warm body ’ , or even a bright and experienced executive . |
7 | Each different way of expressing ‘ the topic ’ will effectively represent a different judgement of what is being written ( or talked ) about in a text . |
8 | and that fearless way he hath |
9 | ‘ Let me put that another way . |
10 | In other words , is that another way of saying the one ? |
11 | and that free way of talking about pain . |
12 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |
13 | Can this , at last , be a glimpse of that untroubled way of life in the cobbled , horse-drawn streets of Old England ? |
14 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
15 | Could I just say that readings taken in this adapted way are called decibels A-weighted , which is a bit sort of technical and silly , but it 's kind of important if you 're measuring the sort of sound that people listen to . |
16 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
17 | She thought of Juliette and Fernand and their martyred brother , namesake of their hero , and in some indefinable way felt at one with them . |
18 | And there was a vigour about him , a brightness of eye , an easiness about the way he held himself , that almost seemed to threaten her in some indefinable way . |
19 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
20 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
21 | She had certainly not planned on saying that , it was just that there was no reason to hate an old woman just because you hated her insufferable grandson , especially when she reminded you , in some indefinable way , of your own grandmother — but why should she explain any of that to this man ? |
22 | But we can not hope to defend integrity in this normal way because we know that integrity will sometimes conflict with what fairness and justice recommend . |
23 | you then have a hedge and there 's a metre or a metre and a half that way , then you 've got the single trees |
24 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
25 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
26 | At first it had amused her , because his Englishness could have stood out like a sore thumb , could have made them , indeed , appear inferior in some subtle way , less smooth , less cultured , provincial . |
27 | The smell of meths had an unforeseen affect on the foal , and in some strange way stimulated the foal 's aggressive instinct . |
28 | It seemed to him that he was Kurz , in some strange way . |
29 | I am , in some strange way reminded of the enigma of mortality and immortality , of birth , life , growth and ultimately death . |
30 | How this deficit occurred I shall never know , but in some strange way the Medical Clerk was held responsible . |