Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it differs in two ways from the approach long-wave theory takes to industrial change . |
| 2 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 3 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 4 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 5 | A third State is affected by a treaty as a matter of fact when the treaty necessitates it acting in some way in response ( even if its preferred response is to do nothing ) . |
| 6 | No , it came from half way along the hall , up under the stair carpet and into the erm front bedroom , but it , it did n't have a , a sort of , you know the |
| 7 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 8 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 9 | It struck in this way in 1953 and in 1936 . |