Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] in [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed .
2 Now , the , there , it appears that there 's a whole variety of phenomena er which suggests that sentence divides up in this way and that can be explained on hypothesis we just call such a division a constituent , and then we stipulate that , as certain operations can only apply to constituents .
3 ‘ They say God pays back in other ways , Miss Hopper , ’ Nicholson said flatly .
4 That Hubbard and Lewontin are biologists by profession shows up in several ways .
5 Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . "
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