Example sentences of "in [num] way " in BNC.

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1 The first difficulty is , despite the destructions , the enormous number of existing pictures , many of them signed , and in one way or another more or less Bellinesque .
2 Theatres were closed during the Cromwellian period , but with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 came Court comedy and the beginning of the ‘ comedy of manners ’ which has , in one way or another , been popular right up to the present day .
3 Soon it was time for luncheon , and the whole of the downstairs staff was occupied in one way or another .
4 There is , in one way , an admirable balance of supply and demand , and some applicants are good by any standards .
5 Nevertheless , this , in one way or another , is what we then require the student to do ; the ineffable is to be transformed into efficient communication , whether in seminar discussion , an essay , or an examination answer .
6 Lack of proper sleep had affected everyone , in one way or another .
7 In one way , however , it is misleading to evaluate the significance of their work on these subjects by how right or how wrong is the evolutionary sequence they describe .
8 In one way it seems absurd — outrageous , even — to measure human life in pounds and pence .
9 Referring to the petition for change , A Few Sentences , Mr Havel said the crisis would be resolved very quickly in one way at least .
10 ‘ To my mind , it is a virtual certainty that the partnership 's operations would have been brought to an end , in one way or another , within a relatively short time after …
11 In one way Weegee is the film Temple has wanted to do for years .
12 But not , at least in one way , an interfering influence .
13 In one way it can , for directors ' pay-slips can be misleading now that many are rewarded with bonuses connected to their firm 's performance .
14 This led him to think that everything , in one way or another , could be matter in motion .
15 In one way the Chancellor is already brought into relation with the administration of justice , though not so as to enable him to modify the law at his pleasure .
16 The inference viewers gained was that management was to blame in one way or another .
17 Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble .
18 They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another .
19 In one way this statement is more conservative than the previous one in that it has elevated the popular usage ‘ Republican Sunday ’ to a part of party language and thus confirmed the belief that Catholicism and republicanism are the same thing , but it represents an important departure from previous positions in clearly tying the DUP 's position to that of the electorate .
20 In one way or another Bede helped to concentrate educated minds in the succeeding generations on the Old Testament .
21 In fact it 's very difficult , in one way , because people find it strange ; their reactions are very strong .
22 Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book .
23 Happy beyond expression in one way , I thought , but not in another .
24 In one way , the association with Volvo dictated the kind of car that the Safrane is .
25 In one way or another , the representatives will be compared with the total client system .
26 In one way or another a great many people owed much to this benevolent physician and he gave to Philip Miller an opportunity which would ultimately benefit botany and horticulture throughout the world .
27 In one way these fears were justified , for UNRWA had no will of its own but was the servant of the international community .
28 For the empirical evidence discussed in the first section of this chapter led to the conclusion that habituation and latent inhibition are subserved by different mechanisms ; it follows that a theory based on the assumption of a common mechanism must be wrong in one way or another ; the fact that Wagner 's theory is inadequate as an account of habituation provides no reason to reject its explanation for latent inhibition .
29 However this may be , Robinson ( 1955 ) , in common with most subsequent investigators of transfer from verbal pretraining to a perceptual task , made use of a quite different task procedure — a test of recognition memory in which the subject had to respond in one way to stimuli that had been presented in pre-training and in a different way to novel stimuli .
30 An untrained stimulus A may be perceived in one way ; one that evokes the representation of X in a different way ; and one that evokes a representation of Y in a different way yet again .
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