Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is something he has carried in a big way into his later professional life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 5 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The very empathy ( charity in the broadest and best sense of the word ) with which he observes his characters seems to point to a better way forward . |
| 10 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 11 | It seem , I mean it does seem like a good way at the moment of making it easier for everyone to use the system , but I do n't know whether it 's vital . |
| 12 | No it does n't does it , it 's spelt in a different way is n't it ? |