Example sentences of "in [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Fell back in that way . |
| 3 | 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 … ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Twenty-six per cent of all appeals set down were disposed of in that way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But it is entirely characteristic of Williams , whose head was always buzzing with Dante , and with the dangerous borderlines between sacred and profane love , that he should have read The Allegory in that way . |
| 10 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |
| 11 | Norman was called upon , he was standing on the rock just behind Issaacs , swaying on his hips in that way he has , with his face turned up to the night . |
| 12 | He was very adventurous in that way . |
| 13 | He can be very charming in that way . |
| 14 | In that way , the rich polluters would be obliged to pay for their excesses through a transfer of technology and wealth to the poor , who in time would come under pressure themselves not to allow their emissions to reach levels which would force them to buy permits . |
| 15 | In that way , the French banks are trying to be Japanese , to set up a community of interest between themselves and their clients . |
| 16 | Similarly , a figure of three lines enclosing a space , which is the idea we have of a triangle , has various properties as a consequence of being constructed in that way , properties such as having internal angles equal to two right angles , and external angles equal to internal opposites . |
| 17 | This is a distortion of Christianity which never separates creation and salvation in that way . |
| 18 | There 's never been much between us in that way . |
| 19 | Nigel agreed that he might be tempted to behave in that way again . |
| 20 | It is possible , too , that in striking the rock as he was told to do in Exodus 17 Moses this time has further infringed the divine command , though nothing was said explicitly about him not using his rod in that way . |
| 21 | I am a wicked woman , she thought , to speak to my mother , who is eighty-nine years old and can not help herself , in that way . |
| 22 | That is a lot for one man , alone , being responsible in that way . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't mean in that way . |
| 24 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 25 | Around the same time , I entered this competition — it was a kind of beauty competition , although it did n't describe itself in that way . |
| 26 | The others were pretty and popular , I was trying desperately to fit in with them , but it was dreadful to have something that I was proud of , and happy with — my body — made fun of in that way , by my friends . |
| 27 | In that way the electorate see us as people first , Conservatives second and politicians third . |
| 28 | I know that I could suffer in that way but I hope I will be able to cope , ’ she added . |
| 29 | If you or one of your sons incline to continue that business you may , I believe , send the same number of boxes here , that you used to send to England ; because England will then send here , for what it wants in that way . |
| 30 | So we did n't go about it in that way . |