Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is that they are virtually non-existent among Third World communities , living on what-grows-naturally in age-old traditional ways . |
| 2 | The numerical data can lead you astray in eight main ways : |
| 3 | Occasionally may cling and want to be carried and may show their irritation in some other ways . |
| 4 | Soon we 'll be helping the environment in some new ways . |
| 5 | It is true that human beings share some things in common with other species , such as sexual reproduction , but they are distinct in some major ways , above all in their capacity for symbolic communication , as distinct from a sign system of communication used by some other species . |
| 6 | In some important ways , the shock of mid-1989 was containable because Hong Kong had learnt from past crises . |
| 7 | A newly arrived unskilled Mediterranean worker living in a run-down neighbourhood in a Scandinavian city is more likely to feel , and appear , in some significant ways more socially incompetent that a middle-class , professional native living in the suburbs : even though the boundaries for each may be comparable in kind and number , for the skilled and socialised native the boundaries be relatively more open than for the unskilled and unsocialised gästarbetare . |
| 8 | The more competitors we have , the more the basic raw material of popular is presented in bland supermarket-commodity ways , the more the NME , by dint of the few extra degrees of vim , suss and humour it puts into its coverage , will seem different from everything else . |
| 9 | Because much management data is used for descriptive purposes , showing present or past situations , rather than trying to make predictions , it is worth becoming adept at presenting statistical material in simple visual ways that others can readily understand . |
| 10 | For instance , the sound /n/ can be written today in six different ways in English |
| 11 | The daily volatility was estimated in six different ways : Garman-Klass estimate Var . |
| 12 | Board and Sutcliffe used Pearson partial correlation coefficients for each of the 20 contracts , with maturity and the weekend dummy held constant , to examine the degree of daily comovement in volume and volatility ( measured in six different ways ) . |
| 13 | In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient . |
| 14 | 3.5 will preserve the copyright notice and cause it to be brought to the attention of its customers and Distributors in such other ways as may reasonably be prescribed by from time to time . |
| 15 | Even though that share seemed to fall over time , as claims were settled , the $170m insurers spent in such unproductive ways in 1989 alone would have paid for the treatment of 15 sites . |
| 16 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 17 | It was only in such oblique ways that he referred to his state of deserted , now divorced , husband . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that a single explanation can fully account for a human activity that has been defined in such varied ways . |
| 19 | Yet just because it is so general and common a process , finding its means and occasions and objects in such diverse ways , and again and again interpenetrating with many of the most practical or most ideological activities , it can not reasonably be abstracted to one exclusive set of practices or one exclusive intention or set of intentions . |
| 20 | It 's weird how influences can come about in such indirect ways . |
| 21 | These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 22 | Yet these define their ‘ membership ’ in such different ways that it is hard to draw conclusions from their figures . |
| 23 | It 's a useful way of getting a perspective on the present , to realize that people think and feel in such different ways , in totally alien ways , that are completely unsympathetic , which is why feminism is an interesting development , because the ability to read something written in a totally patriarchal tradition , and to make the sympathetic adjustment , giving him his due , recognizing that he could n't have thought what you think , because people did n't think like that then … . |
| 24 | Neighbours are useful in emergencies and they provide help in countless small ways , such as shopping , taking in deliveries , admitting tradesmen , providing transport and looking after each other 's children for short periods . |
| 25 | In these four ways , housing differs from other consumer goods though it remains fundamentally a private market commodity . |
| 26 | In these various ways accommodation and services can be rearranged to offer suitability for different minority elders . |
| 27 | Subject , however , to the help of the court in these various ways , the basic principle underlying the preparation and presentation of a party 's case in the High Court in England is that it is for that party to obtain and present the evidence which he needs by his own means , provided always that such means are lawful in the country in which they are used . |
| 28 | In these various ways biblical criticism has been of use in interpreting the Old Testament and defending its integrity against those who question its truth . |
| 29 | The remedies prepared in these two ways seem to act like the high homoeopathic potencies and like these have , as their particular sphere of influence , the moods and mental states of the patient . |
| 30 | However , the real reason for starting with observation is that communication does n't merely depend on observation in these two ways : in effect , communication itself is a kind of observation . |