Example sentences of "in [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , do not be surprised if you see conventional symbols used in odd ways . |
| 2 | Throughout this book we have been alert to the possibility of individual organisms ‘ cheating ’ in subtle ways against their social companions . |
| 3 | However , the myth is constantly perpetuated in subtle ways ; for instance , through apparently ‘ charitable ’ views of old age . |
| 4 | Meaning can be conveyed in subtle ways : through tone of voice , pauses , stress given to different words or syllables , and even by what is left unsaid , by what is inferred or implied . |
| 5 | In subtle ways , he seeks praise and affirmation from those he knows it 's safe to trust . |
| 6 | We can only surmise that a few basic signalling systems emerged early in evolution and were then modified in subtle ways to meet the unique signalling requirements of different cells . |
| 7 | It is already happening in subtle ways : £2 to park your car beneath Simon 's Seat or Snowdon . |
| 8 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 9 | As she sees you , and senses your interest , her posture changes in subtle ways . |
| 10 | Girl children learn these messages in subtle ways . |
| 11 | ‘ For the White Feminist ’ addressed this in subtle ways — the upsetting of a bowl , a foot penetrating the frame of a tray . |
| 12 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 13 | For Linnaeus , in contrast , each species had its own essential characteristics — its essence ; individual members of a species may differ , but only in non-essential ways . |
| 14 | also thought that the media had , in recent years , turned their attention much more strongly to the downside environmental impact of coal , especially to its producing large amounts of carbon dioxide which could well be changing the earth 's climate in undesirable ways . |
| 15 | We worried at first that the children might be sceptical and uninterested ; but we soon found that nine year olds have already heard of atoms in garbled ways from comics and really want to know about them . |
| 16 | ‘ The Liverpool club has given me so much , including in private ways , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Organise non-chronological writing in orderly ways . |
| 18 | Early traumas come back to haunt such cats and force them to behave in strange ways . |
| 19 | The mind works on the body in strange ways ; an intense experience , a powerful dream . |
| 20 | " God does move in strange ways sometimes , I have to admit . |
| 21 | In simpler ways , libraries may deliberately remove certain reference works from their regular places on the shelves and then monitor reader reactions . |
| 22 | There are cases where technical terms are conventionally used , but add nothing to what could be said in simpler ways : e.g. etymology simply means ‘ the history of a word ’ , and morphology simply means ‘ word structure , . |
| 23 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 24 | Fell back in that way . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the tone in which they are expressed , and the language they are couched in , prevent our taking them in that way , and recall for us rather the heads of Auden 's indictment : ‘ lazy … too easily bored … persuaded beyond argument … ’ |
| 26 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 27 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 28 | Twenty-six per cent of all appeals set down were disposed of in that way . |
| 29 | Most of us will be working part time and voluntary work will be considered work just as much as paid work and in that way we can distribute the enormous amount of work that needs to be done more evenly . |
| 30 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |