Example sentences of "[is] in [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now everyone 's talking about it and it 's in one way it makes you gnash your teeth that that we 're not getting the credit yet |
| 2 | So , it , it 's in many ways a , a book that , that looks two ways , as it were , back and , and forward . |
| 3 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 4 | And I do n't mean to employ it 's in any way dishonest . |
| 5 | Well , this morning it 's our great pleasure to welcome three visitors to the session , one of whom I 'm not entirely sure is welcome because I understand that in fact he 's in some way a slight opposition in that he runs his own training course . |
| 6 | [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way . |
| 7 | It 's in this way I think that Proust clears the ground in order to claim that the artist , be he writer , painter , musician , can capture reality by means not open to and indeed mostly at variance with the discursive intellect . |
| 8 | Apollo is in various ways a god of higher civilization : he is , for instance , the god of medicine . |
| 9 | Now you can tell how well developed an organ is in two ways : either by seeing how big it is , or by feeling the heat it generates . |
| 10 | Th I think the fair trading idea is , is in two ways . |
| 11 | Methane , which is in other ways destructive ( see p.86 ) , fortunately helps to build up the ozone layer . |
| 12 | In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time . |
| 13 | It is worth saying accordingly that Denethor , contrasted with Saruman as he is in other ways with Théoden , is an arch-conservative . |
| 14 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 15 | Everything that occurs in the organization is in one way or another idea-handling . |
| 16 | To recapitulate : ‘ the quality of life ’ , as you understand it , is some property which is in one way or another promoted or enhanced by washing-machines . |
| 17 | More empirically however , on the other hand , and drawing upon the work of Peter Bürger , Callinicos accepts the case for Modernism having contained a critical moment — a ‘ protest against the capitalist society to which it is in complex ways related ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 18 | It 's available from our county headquarters , which is in Middle Way , and of course if you 're a W I member you immediately get a pound off it , off the face price of seven ninety-five , which is a very modest price for a very prestigious book . |
| 19 | Frequently the key to advance is in better ways of measuring or quantifying technical processes , or material advances which in themselves remove one of the constraints on development . |
| 20 | Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer , he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems , in particular man 's inhumanity to man , through dance . |
| 21 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 22 | Yet the first definition of culture which he now supplies , ‘ that of a refinement of living , including appreciation of philosophy and the arts , among the upper levels of society ’ , is in many ways close to Amold 's ideal . |
| 23 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , since theatre direction is in many ways an ephemeral art , we can never really know how the famous Gründgens/Karajan Zauberflöte really looked and sounded in Berlin in 1938 , though the production was celebrated at the time for the uncanny matching of musical and visual textures . |
| 25 | I know Sibelius is in many ways a very different composer from Bruckner , but I remember you suggesting that there are for you affinities between them . |
| 26 | The odd one out in my list is in many ways the most beguiling . |
| 27 | A character called Barny , an English hotelier , runs the Easo and he is in many ways our father figure in Benidorm . |
| 28 | The relationship between teachers and pupils is in many ways similar to the relationship between other professionals and their clients , but it is suggested here that in an ideal sense ( and in many cases practically too ) it does have special characteristics which are fundamentally opposed to traditional ideas of professionalism . |
| 29 | The ecology of islands is in many ways special : few species ; no large mammalian predators ; large versions of creatures that are generally small , and small versions of creatures that are generally large . |
| 30 | ‘ The picture that emerges from our review of radioactive waste management is in many ways a disquieting one , ’ the Commission noted with cautious understatement , ‘ indicating insufficient appreciation of long-term requirements either by government departments or other organizations concerned . ’ |