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 .

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