Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is often no optimal design , treatment or solution ; better in one way means worse in another . |
| 2 | Better in some ways . |
| 3 | In midlife many areas need to be tackled afresh in this way . |
| 4 | The actual products are not necessarily in any way lesser — or for that matter , better — than their commercial counterparts ( although , in truth , a number of programs released as shareware can at best be described as ‘ limited ’ from a commercial viewpoint ) . |
| 5 | Were there any players that the crowds used to pick on especially in any way ? |
| 6 | Unwanted sugar is purchased from the Caribbean islands and stockpiled by the United States , who would rather spend billions of dollars annually in this way ( to keep the region ‘ stable ’ ) than help those nations develop an alternative and more useful crop — food , for instance . |
| 7 | Many plants spread naturally in this way , their flexible stems arching down and rooting where they rest on the ground , and gardeners have adopted this method for woody subjects otherwise difficult to propagate . |
| 8 | He is a good swimmer — quite good enough , and quite mature enough in that way , to respect flood water . |
| 9 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 10 | flexible enough in other ways — |
| 11 | Johansson calculates that efficiency will increase enough in this way to allow the demand for electricity to be met by only 140 TWh . |
| 12 | But the main institutions which the British had adapted in keeping their nation together — the Crown , Parliament , the forces of law and order , civil and commercial institutions — had all in different ways turned sour with the progressive disillusion of the years after 1945 . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps in that way she had a lucky escape . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Looking for the unicorn , ’ she repeated , saying ‘ looking ’ now instead of ‘ hunting ’ because perhaps in some way he was the protector of the beast . |
| 15 | In an attempt partly to offer a tribute and perhaps in some way to attempt a readjustment of the balance against him , he recited what he knew of the church 's founding saint . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He , too , came from a Roman family and perhaps in some way had been the patron of the young cardinal deacon of SS . |
| 18 | Perhaps in some way , yes . |
| 19 | So perhaps in some ways er we would deduce from this that the the motive of the revolutionaries in sixty eight was in perhaps to some extent to complete what had been started in seventeen eighty nine but not finished and somebody would , Clinton presumably he would say I 'm gon na complete the programme that John F Kennedy started , but was unable to finish because the tragic way in which his career was ended . |
| 20 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 21 | This being the case , I can not thank personally in any way other than through your column , but if this person should read this letter I would be very pleased if I am contacted on Darlington . |
| 22 | I think we managed to contact about half of them personally in this way . |
| 23 | He knew exactly why the Curator had asked him in to see the eagle — a most unusual thing for someone as unimportant as him to be called in personally in this way . |
| 24 | So in that way , she thought , she had acted not just lovingly , but selfishly in choosing peace ! |
| 25 | So in that way Mother bade farewell to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 26 | He did so in two ways . |
| 27 | Choreographers who are inspired to interpret music can do so in many ways , all of which can be successful , but only if they remember that its overall rhythm is not merely a mechanical guide to the timing of the steps within the dance design ( see page 68 ) . |
| 28 | You are a sign well able to juggle several balls at once so in many ways the volatile planetary climate could suit you down to the ground . |
| 29 | All languages make systematic use of voice pitch to convey meaning , but they do so in different ways for different purposes , the main categories of pitch use being ‘ tone ’ and ‘ intonation ’ . |
| 30 | So in this way the Persians were able to advance with ease and the Egyptians were helpless to retaliate . |