Example sentences of "have [verb] in 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I RECENTLY found a wallet containing credit cards which I could have used in a dishonest way . |
| 7 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 8 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 9 | Then , at least , Israel might not have to respond in a clear-cut way . |
| 10 | Science and technology must surely have progressed in a different way if these principles had been embraced from the start . |
| 11 | Many of those aspects of your personality which you may have perceived in a negative way might be regarded by others as positive elements of your character . |
| 12 | Many urban tradesmen , especially those connected with the building industry , seem to have invested in a small way in housing for rent , but there can be little doubt that the special facilities in raising capital conferred by acts of parliament on turnpike trusts and canal companies enabled them to become the recipients of a flow of capital from sources which would not otherwise have been drawn so directly towards economic improvements . |
| 13 | people who 've died in a similar way . |
| 14 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 15 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 16 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 17 | If you are an England player you have to behave in a certain way . ’ |
| 18 | For example , questions of relevance only to married women can be prefaced by a general question about marital status followed by an instruction for those who have answered in a particular way to move to the relevant subset . |
| 19 | No it does n't does it , it 's spelt in a different way is n't it ? |
| 20 | that we have to do in a certain way , in a certain format and certain things have got to be included and we 've got to take that in hand as well . |
| 21 | Like every other company in the oil industry , we ca n't operate in isolation from the factors that control the world oil business and we have to respond in a positive way by managing the business in line with the economic circumstances in which we must function . |