Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Geste brothers are stereotypes and may be laughed at with impunity : but Charles Wogan , as A. E. W. Mason saw him in Clementina , and the ingenuous John Ridd , self-revealing narrator of Lorna Doone , exemplify the intricacies of love and honour in a way that transcends period and social niceties . |
| 2 | I think the er figures also suggest in a way that |
| 3 | Well , basically to tell you the truth it 's been … better in a way . |
| 4 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 5 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 6 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 7 | The Ponting case also illustrates the ways in which the legitimacy of the state may be threatened if any of its various temporary governors act in a way which breaks down the distinction between state and government , and by wrapping the acts of particular governments in the flag of the state , make it impossible to attack one without assaulting the other . |
| 8 | The Prince uses Highgrove in a way that he could n't use his other lands in the Duchy of Cornwall because they 're tenanted . |
| 9 | Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid . |
| 10 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 11 | I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR . |
| 12 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 13 | ‘ But the performance of the Labour candidates indicates that , if a viable alternative political force presents itself , a sufficient number of people may be prepared to break ranks and vote in a way which does not tend to propel our communities into deadly conflict with each other . ’ |
| 14 | It is in virtue of this potential that people matter in a way in which no thing , or mere animal , can do . |
| 15 | And look on the feelings , etc. , as you look on a way of regarding the language-game , as interpretation ’ ; ‘ We are not analysing a phenomenon ( e.g. thought ) but a concept ( e.g. that of thinking ) , and therefore the use of a word ’ ; ‘ a concept is in its element with the language-game ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ But I know of a way . ’ |
| 17 | These sorts of rule-breaking are amenable to strategies of correction or control in a way that most forms of isolated crime can not be . |
| 18 | But er I should say myself that er it all depended on the man really you know in a way did n't it , either one way or th other . |
| 19 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 20 | Compensate in a way that is proportional to the ‘ crime ’ . |
| 21 | I mean in a way the purse thing is a bit more distant |
| 22 | Yeah , I mean what was nice in , in a way was that er I could n't go to the last meeting I was n't well , I had a cold er , what was nice in a way was that David who 's the general manager and the general manager from Pitlochry had come in , I mean in a way it was a classic case |
| 23 | Well I mean in a way it would be nice to have one more new one |
| 24 | Yeah but I mean in a way you can understand |
| 25 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 26 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 27 | collocate : – ( with ) , ( of words ) combine in a way characteristic of language : 'Weak' –s with ‘ tea ’ but ‘ feeble ’ does not . |
| 28 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 29 | I suppose in a way , I was living out my own part of the Ziggy decadence and the Ziggy demise . |
| 30 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |