Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 2 | At the Edinburgh summit the richest , most powerful European nations waste their time desperately seeking for a clever-dick way to con Danish voters in a second referendum . |
| 3 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
| 4 | The introduction by TNCs of new types of production into developing countries that are already industrializing in a substantial way . |
| 5 | Despite the initially positive tone of his report Kiet conceded that the socio-economic situation was " still growing in a complicated way " . |
| 6 | The two continental blocks of the North Atlantic and Eurasian cratons were on opposite sides of the Iapetus Ocean , which was gradually closing in a complex way with subduction on both sides . |
| 7 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 8 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
| 9 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 10 | I am now working in a similar way with Ian . |
| 11 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 12 | The effects of war , however , could also prove potentially damaging in a new way as England became more closely involved with the wider economy in western Europe ; a slump in exports , even if this were due to factors outside English control , could lead to domestic unemployment , and in the 1520s complaints were made about this in the textile areas of Suffolk ( Ch.4 ) . |