Example sentences of "way a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint . |
| 2 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 3 | It is not surprising therefore that the history of thought about the two policy areas is in some ways similar , although that of family planning is in many ways a decade ahead of conservation . |
| 4 | The unearthly , mysterious aspect of beauty is emphasised at the end of a book which is in many ways a repetition of its predecessor . |
| 5 | ‘ We agreed to go our own ways a year ago . |
| 6 | In all these and similar ways a government can exercise power and control over people without attempting thereby to exercise authority over them . |
| 7 | In some ways a continuation of the drive against bourgeois liberalism which began after the 1980 elections , it mobilised the media , the CYL and other official agencies in efforts to stamp out undesirable imports . |
| 8 | Though he was in some ways a traditionalist , interested in painting epic scenes in a continuation of the grand European manner , he was also a modernist , an admirer of Picasso from whom he had learnt to analyse the rudiments of representation in order to embellish them , to make them rich or austere . |
| 9 | It is not , as most appear to believe , the end of a process , but in many ways a beginning . |
| 10 | This commitment is particularly apparent in the chapter devoted to the work of Searle , who is in some ways a disciple of Austin and in others a dissident . |
| 11 | This excellently Greek island is in many ways a sample of the successes and the continuing tribulations of the country as a whole . |
| 12 | Johansson arrives at this positive conclusion by using a new kind of energy analysis , which compares the costs and benefits , both economic and environmental , of the ways a society can meet its energy needs . |
| 13 | In many ways a parallel can be drawn between this river-borne Russian penetration and conquest of Siberian with its combination of raiding and trading , and the invasion of the original land of the Slavs by the Varangians eight centuries before . |
| 14 | In obvious ways a native-speaker setting out to become a teacher of her/his mother tongue has a clear head start . |
| 15 | Indeed , one gets the impression that his painting of 1906 is in some ways a synthesis of elements derived from a whole variety of different types of ancient art : the drawings on Greek white-ground vases , archaic Greek and Etruscan marbles and bronzes , and Cycladic and Mesopotamian figurines . |
| 16 | The work of a French doctor , Jacques Duval 's Des Hermaphordits , Twelfth Night and As You Like It are the focus for an exploration of the ways a culture 's sexual discourse plays a critical role in the shaping of identity . |
| 17 | The history of the European Fighter Aircraft project is in many ways a microcosm of the proposed Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 18 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 19 | Apollo is in various ways a god of higher civilization : he is , for instance , the god of medicine . |
| 20 | ‘ The actual contract itself is in many ways a bit of a red herring . |
| 21 | Milk quotas do not work , and in some ways a bit of market forces might have helped the United Kingdom because we are efficient producers . |
| 22 | Agriculture in Germany was in many ways a mixture of old and new . |
| 23 | Stein-am-Rhein is in some ways a reproduction of all that is wonderful about Schaffhausen , but with enough added subtleties to give it an identity of its own . |
| 24 | This is in some ways a departure for many house churches which have been strongly pastoral in emphasis . |
| 25 | It was in many ways a mood rather than a movement , a transient phenomenon with shallow roots in the constituencies , and particularly weak in local government . |
| 26 | While this is some ways a mercy , it nonetheless serves to accentuate the loss that she experiences . |
| 27 | Among these creators of new states none is quite like Ho Chi Minh who , despite having the spotlight of publicity turned upon him by the world 's press , remains in many ways a mystery man . |
| 28 | Studies have found various ways a husband 's income is used by the family . |
| 29 | The Falcons are flying again — the RAF parachute display team , that is , and as Mike Rowbottom now reports , their first jump of the new season was a nerve-wracking business despite being in many ways a routine affair . |
| 30 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |