Example sentences of "it [verb] in a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a pool hall expression alluding to a cue ball played with side , or spin , which caused it to behave in a deceptive way . |
| 2 | It complements in a modest way the safety programmes and the ‘ safeguards ’ monitoring carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency from its headquarters in Vienna . |
| 3 | It does n't only happen with women : it happened in a different way with Tom Keating and Chris Frayling ( who is Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art ) . |
| 4 | The Workers ' Travel Association was set up to give workers the opportunity to travel ; it began in a modest way but by the 1950s had become a worldwide organization . |
| 5 | An African praying mantis has even more spectacular eye-spots with an almost hypnotic spiral design that it employs in a similar way . |
| 6 | ‘ It started in a small way but has kept on growing . |
| 7 | Not that it did n't work the way we did it , but it worked in a different way . ’ |
| 8 | It explores in a metaphorical way the ideas of performance , ritual , religion and the image-making machinations of the media . |
| 9 | The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice . |
| 10 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 11 | This means that it behaves in a similar way to the three directions that correspond to moving in space . |
| 12 | Consequently , it works in a different way to PRINT . |