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 | So the brain we talked about the two hemispheres the left and the right hemisphere the fact that the left is very much involved in a a linear way whereas the right is involved in spatial way , anybody remember the relative contribution of the two halves ? |
| 22 | Felix McGlennon 's account — probably not untypical — of his composing methods reminds us that some categories of nineteenth-century printed song originated in quasi-oral ways : |
| 23 | The other is the emergence of new , third world competitors that deploy their resources in innovative ways that sometimes can minimise the handicaps of being a late entrant into established markets . |
| 24 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 25 | Governments , rightly , find it difficult to be overtly discriminatory , or to specialise in idiosyncratic ways . |
| 26 | Pasha Naiz and his death were evocative in consequential ways ; they were part of an idiom which was largely inexplicit ( though not unstructured ) but which has to be made explicit if it is to be understood by people who do not have it . |
| 27 | They can be blended , but too often in our secular society , they are poorly-understood styles of behaviour acted out between men and women in conflicting ways . |
| 28 | They need to make a regular picture available to the national originators of change and to those agencies who are responsible for change being organized in specific way . |
| 29 | Since electrically charged objects attract or repel one another ( unlike charges attract , like charges repel ) , there are forces of attraction and repulsion between atoms , which may cause them to combine in specific ways to form chemical compounds . |
| 30 | Here knowledge of material practices and social understanding combine to enable them to read the text in specific ways . |