Example sentences of "[adj] way a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Stories of cosmic and of human creation , either separately or as unities , are numerous , and many have several points in common@ pre-existent deity ; creation by divine command ; man the ultimate creature ; man formed from the earth as a pot is made ; man in some way a reflection of deity .
2 Then she realised that it must be Ianthe Broome , the canon 's daughter they were always talking about , and perhaps in some way a kind of ‘ rival ’ for the affections of a man she had not yet seen .
3 Reformed universities produced able clergy whom the school could attract to their staffs ; and the Victorian parent still wanted to feel that the principal educator of his child was in some way a man of God .
4 Blanche 's antennae were very sensitive at gauging the progress of an investigation but she relied on Dexter to hoover up male gossip that was beyond her reach , idle chatter in the canteen or the gents ' toilet that sometimes hardened into hostility or resentment at some way a case was being handled .
5 Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience .
6 Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history .
7 It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for .
8 ( c ) Accreditation , i.e. proficiency certification often in some way a summary " or measure of achievement on the course of instruction and often used for selection purposes , or to acknowledge success .
9 The sharpening of the generalization gradient around a stimulus was in some way a consequence of the processes responsible for the formation of the S-R links but was not thought to be itself associative in nature .
10 In this way a defence that the property was already damaged and that the defendant is not responsible for the present damage can be countered .
11 In this way a ration in the goods market spills over into the labour market by constraining the demand for labour .
12 In this way a company will find risk assessment a positive tool for demonstrating efficiency and control ’ .
13 In this way a crack is really a mechanism which enables a weak external force to break even the strongest bonds one by one .
14 Can I just erm , carry on working but just look this way a minute please .
15 In this way a knowledge of the patterning of events makes possible ‘ a mutual understanding of individuals and the impulses of aid to mate or young are thereby transformed into sympathetic actions ’ .
16 This way a man may always read who is his friend and who his enemy . ’
17 Lit in this way a room is a simulacrum of a dream world .
18 In this way a pattern mask limits the time for which a target letter is represented in the system , and if the time limitation is severe enough to prevent the target 's code from reaching a lexical output system , then the subject will fail to report the target , even though the target was identified in the sense that its detector in the lexical input system was activated .
19 In this way a project which would have been profitable evolves into something much more fancy — and more fun — but something which is no longer profitable .
20 In this way a loss is being experienced , the return on money being forgone .
21 In this way a handful of companies in the North are edging towards having a monopoly over the world 's genetic pool .
22 When you have lined up your data in this way a glance will tell you for which sounds you have enough words to make check lists .
23 In this way a process of evolution was started that led to the development of more and more complicated , self-reproducing organisms .
24 In this way a risk index was formed showing whether the division was relatively more or less risky than the corporate group as a whole , and the group CAPM-based yield was modified on a divisional basis .
25 In this way a carcass can draw vultures from far away in a short time .
26 But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period .
27 Physics , particularly since the work of Bacon and Descartes , has generally been thought of as an objective science , based on observable facts , in this way a body of certain knowledge is gradually built up .
28 Understood in this way a duty to serve the interests of the enterprise can sensibly only mean a duty to further the commercial success of the business .
29 Zionism , too , was thus in this way a challenge to the assumptions of liberal culture .
30 It is in this way a world view , of which psychoanalysis forms an important part .
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