Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I used to love sally loaves and you cut them off that way |
| 2 | Even if you do manage to prove that he has been harassing you , there does n't appear to be much general acceptance of the fact that intimidating someone in this way might actually constitute a serious crime . |
| 3 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 4 | To see things differently means changing ourselves in some way , and most of us are reluctant to do this . |
| 5 | The City 's still his in some way , held in trust . ’ |
| 6 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 7 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 8 | His novels , and in particular two novels of the sea which in many ways closely resembled certain of Conrad 's extended stories , assert the pre-eminence of story , of what happens next : in the balance he holds between character and event , in the way he directs his narrative , he provides almost a blueprint of the classic adventure genre . |
| 9 | It is at this point that we can begin to see how deviant groups — even evil Folk Devils — construct an order which in many ways is based closely on the order of the society which makes them outcasts . |
| 10 | The differences between living in my Hollywood A-frame and in our Balinese house required an organism-crunching transition , which in many ways parallels the fundamental complementary opposites between East and West . |
| 11 | We begin with the 1870 Education Act which in many ways represents the beginning of the modern education system — but concentrate on legislation since 1944 . |
| 12 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |
| 13 | One of the main reasons is that our system of democratic parliamentary self-government is incompatible with the Brussels machine , which has an unelected Commission with the sole power of initiative and right of veto , a Council of Ministers which legislates in secret , the so-called Parliament , which is not really a Parliament , has no roots in this country and will never be the focus of the hopes , aspirations and loyalties of our people , and a Community court , which in many ways is a political court and engine of federalism , standing above Parliament . |
| 14 | The American journal Science , which in many ways occupies a similar position to Nature , has an acceptance rate of 18% ( Abelson 1 ) . |
| 15 | The American journal Science , which in many ways occupies a similar position to Nature , has an acceptance rate of 18% ( Abelson ) . |
| 16 | In such societies labour is so little thought of as a special separate type of activity that there is no word which in any way corresponds to what we with our language , moulded by the history of capitalism , mean by labour . |
| 17 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 18 | Under this general heading we can identify perhaps seven composite programmes , which in some way are designed to enhance urban physical and/or economic development . |
| 19 | Growth is a problem in spatial organisation , controlled by genes which in some way carry a ‘ plan ’ of the organism . |
| 20 | The inhabitants of the outside world exist for the social actor not as persons whom he knows on an individualised basis , but as social types ( like mechanics or planners ) , or indistinguishable collectivities of persons ( like bureaucrats , Tories or Dinka ) The rules and conditions coming from the outside which in some way affect him are simply taken as given . |
| 21 | Some elders may have been obliged to be attached to objects or routines which in some way were exploitative , oppressive or otherwise caused suffering . |
| 22 | Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms . |
| 23 | A competitor to X is Sun Microsystem 's Network extensible Window System ( NeWS ) which in some ways is technicalsuperior . |
| 24 | The aim was expressed at the launch of a new report reviewing the role and prospects of the small firms sector in the economy , Small Firms in Britain , a publication which in some ways is the government 's answer to pressure for a regular ‘ report on small business ’ , similar to the weighty volume published annually in the United States . |
| 25 | The main idea here has been to exploit the existence of particles known as ‘ muons ’ which in some ways behave like electrons , but are some 207 times heavier and are unstable . |
| 26 | Both had been arrested and were charged with serious terrorist offences , of which I was sure they were totally innocent ; although I was equally sure that they had engaged in active political propaganda , which in some ways would have been no less objectionable to the South African government . |
| 27 | I think it was it was day to day living and er which in some ways could be more expensive than if |
| 28 | Constance did n't bother to reply but sat down beside the cat , which in some ways reminded her of her loved one . |
| 29 | It was an important vehicle of terror in the Stalinist period and , by the time of Stalin 's death , had come to occupy a place in the state machinery which in some ways undermined the position of the Communist Party itself ; everyone came under suspicion . |
| 30 | The general drift of my own argument , which in some ways resembles that of Marx , is that what is determined is not the form of particular institutional arrangements but certain basic patterns within the structure of person-to-person relationships . |