Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm we expected to perform in a professional way , particularly after incidents like last week when we had an horrendous twenty four hours and we do n't get paid for it |
| 2 | In Gever 's Application [ 1970 ] , data processing apparatus was arranged to work in a certain way associated with punched cards inserted into it . |
| 3 | This is something he has carried in a big way into his later professional life . |
| 4 | Similar fact evidence , that is evidence that a person has acted in a similar way in the past or that a similar situation has arisen previously , is admissible in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 6 | Once the reader has grasped that there are different kinds of reading ( appropriate to different kinds of texts and different purposes ) , that reading must be undertaken actively and critically , and that he or she has to interact in a personal way with the text , then the reader is becoming proficient . |
| 7 | Humanism has resulted in a hedonistic way of life which is turning out to be anti-intellectual and irrational — consider the works of Francis Bacon — or Sid Vicious . |
| 8 | Murid , cricetid and microtine molars are structurally different from each other , but their incisors are more similar and appear to alter in a similar way when subjected to digestive corrosion . |
| 9 | The importance of Healey Mills yard ( West Yorkshire ) has declined in a similar way , with most of its shunting duties transferred to Tinsley ( Sheffield ) and Doncaster . |
| 10 | ‘ The members of the apparatus are not constrained to act in a definite way by the position they occupy in the structure of social reproduction ’ . |
| 11 | The theory states that individuals possess certain characteristics so that they are predisposed to act in a certain way within a given situation . |
| 12 | While Vincente was there , glowering over you , radiating fitness and willpower , the ball seemed to behave in a dramatic way , as though fitted with miniature jet rockets . |
| 13 | Deixis is seen as a fundamental element of human discourse , and a particular discoursal site is isolated where it can be seen operating in a particular way . |
| 14 | Their reading of Balzac was of course extremely distorted — the Balzacian novel was made to encapsulate in a convenient way everything which the nouveaux romanciers considered to be deficient in any modern representation of reality . |
| 15 | Ensuring to all an equal ability to realize their conception of the good is more likely to require acting in a non-neutral way , acting to improve the ability of some at the expense of others . |
| 16 | It does not follow that if subjects are induced to behave in a certain way within the idealized limits of experimental control , they will behave in the same way when these limits are relaxed . |
| 17 | I would like to help in a general way with Friends ' events |
| 18 | If someone 's done half your work for you you 're going to react in a different way . |
| 19 | Just as certain behavioural habits develop , such as vomiting after every meal , so women with bulimia can develop habitual thoughts and begin to think in a bulimic way . |
| 20 | There is a Latin maxim ignorantia juris non excusat , and , although these words are variously translated and variously applied in our law , they are remarkably applicable to someone who chooses to act in a challenging way towards a policeman on the street . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think Elizabeth can be here , ’ she said , wishing to indicate in a roundabout way that she did n't think Beuno was here either . |
| 22 | We began talking in a general way about modern theologians . |
| 23 | I began to prepare in a small way to enjoy the Christmas in Bedford . |
| 24 | I RECENTLY found a wallet containing credit cards which I could have used in a dishonest way . |
| 25 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 26 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 27 | Then , at least , Israel might not have to respond in a clear-cut way . |
| 28 | Science and technology must surely have progressed in a different way if these principles had been embraced from the start . |
| 29 | Many of those aspects of your personality which you may have perceived in a negative way might be regarded by others as positive elements of your character . |
| 30 | Thus , several factors may interact to affect in a complex way the distribution of income and the extent of service receipt by elderly people , and these too are explored below . |