Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] in way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |
| 2 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 3 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 4 | His system reacted to contact with her in ways he had never experienced with Maud , or with any other woman . |
| 5 | Of course , the state is not insulated from economic pressures or political demands from the working class and other groups , but this analysis suggests that it will respond to them in ways which are to its own advantage , which may not coincide with the narrowly defined interests of capital or other political forces . |
| 6 | It can only be realised fully by involving able people and delegating power and responsibility to them in ways which allow the whole organisation to take responsibility for outcomes and for future action . |
| 7 | You see , and all the time we 're pushing it , you know , the girls have got to stand up for themselves and they 're not to allow the boys to speak to them in ways that are sexist . |
| 8 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |
| 9 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 10 | The signs that it is doing so are around you in ways which were unimaginable before prices were ‘ liberalised ’ two years ago . |