Example sentences of "in a [adj] way [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | In a curious way he would miss Tibbles . |
2 | In a curious way you can understand what is being said only by letting your mind slip into the same fuzzy state Shepherd 's must have been in when he spoke . |
3 | In a strange way it can actually contribute to the success of many marriages , for not every woman wants to spend her life with an eternal Romeo . |
4 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
5 | In a similar way we can first examine ray average costs and returns to scale along a ray . |
6 | In a similar way we can mock an accent or dialect , projecting a stereotyped figure more in the manner that stage actors do than in the manner that mere quotation provides … |
7 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
8 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
9 | In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance . |
10 | ‘ Even if we celebrated in a small way we would have attracted tourists from all over the world . |
11 | I 've enjoyed having you here , and in a small way it will sort of thank David , make it up to him by having his granddaughter to stay . |
12 | Basically , I come to praise the positive steps taken by Health Ministers over the past five years , although in a minor way I will ask for reconsideration of a wrong done to a medical practice in my constituency . |
13 | I hypothesise that if I move and turn the lamp in a particular way I will get the result I want . |