Example sentences of "in way " in BNC.

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1 Its atmosphere and suspense are nursed by locality — Petersburg — in ways which ca n't be escaped but which often get misreported .
2 In institutional practice , ‘ English ’ in public schools tended to be marginal and somewhat disregarded , but became central in the culture of the grammar schools , in ways adumbrated and advocated in the Newbolt Report .
3 It is true that in such discussions the judgemental element does not exist in isolation , since it is interwoven with description , technical assessment of moves in play , and so forth , in ways suggested in Wittgenstein 's lectures on aesthetics .
4 In America , as I have remarked , the original New Critics were evaluative , in ways closely connected to their own poetic practice .
5 Despite the protective embrace of professionalism and the general mutuality of respect and acceptance that pertains between disciplines , the academic teacher of literature is in a peculiar position in relation to his colleagues elsewhere , in ways that have been remarked on by John Bayley and Raymond Williams , and no doubt by others ; in certain respects English does remain an essentially different subject .
6 The real problem is that the writers of such texts may make political difficulties within a department , or teach in ways difficult for students to understand .
7 At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity .
8 It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals .
9 And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for .
10 Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ .
11 ‘ If the objective of privatisation is to improve management performance , it can be achieved in ways other than all-out privatisation , ’ he said .
12 The poor get theirs in ways of which we disapprove : consider nineteenth-century attitudes to working-class drinking .
13 Parties to CITES must give the secretariat the finances with which to do its job and not oblige it to raise its own funds in ways which lead to question and criticism . ’
14 Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ .
15 In addition , an input in posture is to be made into the training of officers to educate them in ways of preventing back injury . ’
16 The essence of music 's higher flights is transcendental in the highest degree imaginable , in ways that are manifestly intelligible and effectual , and quite insusceptible to verbal accounting .
17 A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand .
18 More frequently , the decision to take no action over an individual 's request for assistance is influenced by whether or not the individual acts in ways typical of a gouger , in part by showing the wrong attitude .
19 The result , at least in Nikol'skaia volost' , was that the few literates from the old regime were starting to occupy the best bureaucratic jobs and to run parish-pump economics and politics in ways barely supervised from above and in fact quite inimical to the aspirations of the guberniia officials .
20 ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’
21 Irigaray 's work is nuanced in ways oft en ignored not only by her critics but by those who appropriate it , especially those who consider her to have demonstrated that homosexuality represents the true nature of patriarchy ; who believes that , as a sexual practice between the same , homosexuality becomes indicative of patriarchy 's fundamental refusal or fear of difference .
22 But for Lawrence the two conflict and in ways which echo the psychoanalytic account of desire :
23 Production systems will have to be intensified in ways which do not deplete fertility ; areas which are now under-populated will have to be used more productively ; the organizations which serve small farmers , including relevant agricultural research institutes , will have to be strengthened ; and finally , agricultural prices will have to be maintained at a level which provides an incentive .
24 While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it .
25 In the first case aid has frequently freed government revenue for purposes very different to those the donors would support ( a new presidential palace , a larger army , a new capital city ) ; in the second case corruption has affected the allocation of contracts in ways which damage project execution .
26 ‘ A woman would be able to help you in ways that I ca n't , ’ he said .
27 What we share , the captain and us , is mastery of time — the freedom to order our day in ways that make better use of it .
28 However , thanks partly to the arrival of the sound film , this small measure was to change the nature of the British film industry in ways that could hardly have been foreseen by the legislators , and enable it to ‘ project England ’ more effectively than it had ever done before .
29 To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture .
30 And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism .
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