Example sentences of "a small way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formally clipped bay-trees trimmed into shapes as balls , pyramids or cones look superb outside front-doors or as eye-catchers on a terrace or patio ; rosemary can serve the same purpose , and in a smaller way , so can rue , lavender , sage and cotton lavender . |
| 2 | In a smaller way after 1987 the emergence of a Scottish electorate overwhelmingly hostile to a Conservative government in power on the basis of English electoral success can sustain nationalist arguments for the general illegitimacy of the constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | The Edmond family is reported to have been running crime rings , in a small way , for generations . |
| 4 | All would be different , they believe , if the majority of decent and honest Catholics could escape the grip of fear , and they define the role of community relations police in West Belfast as attempting , in a small way , to loosen the Catholic community from the stranglehold of the paramilitaries , as the commentary on a police promotional video stated : ‘ The effort of trying to win the people 's minds and hearts away from terrorism is personified in the Community Relations Branch , whose members regularly attend meetings involving civilian bodies , public representatives , and discuss problems such as vandalism . ’ |
| 5 | You can either be very timid and start in a small way , building it up gradually and expecting to make a profit in the first year . |
| 6 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
| 7 | In a small way , private schemes also exist in Maryland and Ohio , though these too have been struggling of late . |
| 8 | Whatever the reason , for Scotland to swing even in a small way from Labour to Conservative is remarkable ; and there can be no doubt that the brave decision to put the Unionist case at the centre of the argument has been justified . |
| 9 | I began to prepare in a small way to enjoy the Christmas in Bedford . |
| 10 | In a small way at the moment , of course , but things are happening . |
| 11 | In a small way , this is an example of the never-ending task of searching my thoughts and feelings about the world around me . |
| 12 | The responsible commitment which is assumed in a small way in all personal knowledge comes into its own in the Christian faith . |
| 13 | He went ‘ back to the land ’ , starting in a small way by looking after other people 's gardens and taking a couple of allotments . |
| 14 | They came from complete strangers , from Quaker groups , and from caring people who wanted to help in a small way . |
| 15 | Three other countries were represented in a small way , including one man from Romania . |
| 16 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 17 | He told me he was a money lender in a small way and that he lived in London now . |
| 18 | In a small way , this is an example of the never-ending task of searching my thoughts and feelings about the world around me . |
| 19 | I have a friend called Ionel in Romania whose life has genuinely been improved in a small way by my sending him your paper , the contents of which he shares with his friends and so on . |
| 20 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 21 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |
| 22 | He was then in his middle thirties , about ten years her senior , and doing well in a small way as a building contractor in New York and New Jersey . |
| 23 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 24 | In the first years of the twenties Boulestin had been dabbling , in a small way , in picture dealing , starting off promisingly with a Modigliani bought in Paris for £12 and sold in London for £90 . |
| 25 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 26 | If you 're never going to read those twenty-year-old management books collecting dust on your office shelf make some profit ( it 's always best to start in a small way ) by selling them to a secondhand bookshop . |
| 27 | They became involved in sustaining the feudal superiorities from which they profited in a small way . |
| 28 | Wilson 's autobiography contains a vivid account of his experiences and his successes in this heartland of the union , which includes his first meeting with Walter Runciman , a shipowner in a small way in South Shields , whose name and that of his son , will appear again in this history . |
| 29 | We were a success , in a small way . |
| 30 | It is hoped that the following study goes a small way towards describing their experiences and situation , as well as highlighting what the inclusion of disabled professionals reveals about the orthodox professional/client relationship . |