Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |
| 2 | English does not employ accents in this way though borrowed words , such as fe∘te , fiancé , ro∘le , etc may retain them . |
| 3 | English is one of the languages that do not use tone in this way though tones or pitch differences are used for other purposes ; such languages are sometimes called intonation languages . |
| 4 | More sensitive contemporary artists know they belong to a generation which can not produce imagery in this way any longer ; on the evidence of many current shows , young male artists appear to have ceded the territory which they occupied for so long and now find themselves — where ? — in a nowhere land where they are no longer the wielder of the language , the focus of identification , the dynamic of meaning , the authoritative producer of shared values . |
| 5 | But it can be argued that we should not view rights in this way , and that when their use has adverse effects on third parties , rights should not be treated as signifying a moral entitlement in the right-holder to bring about those effects . |
| 6 | It arises from a series of acts of faith : speech is natural , language acquisition occurs naturally through audition ; the oral approach incorporates this natural approach ; children who do not acquire language in this way are therefore deviant , and thus defective . |
| 7 | She knew she was falling in love with this man ; she felt certain that she could n't resist him ; but she also knew that she could n't treat Louise in this way . |