Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] in [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I do n't think it probably that it does decide help you decide where the location ought to be , but that having said that , I would not want to minimize in any way er the views of my authority er as to the importance erm of the look of contributions from the private sector . |
| 2 | Did this fragmentation of your original family leave a longing which you then tried to appease in any way through literature ? |
| 3 | Most , most criminals do n't want to get caught but there are the odd exceptions who are a bit idiotic er but we erm they 're very rare and usually high on drugs on something like that , but we 're just your ordinary sort of down and out type criminal who wants to break in some way . |
| 4 | I 'm doing a secretarial course and want to get in that way . |
| 5 | Andy Warren does n't have a door key , he has to get in another way . |
| 6 | Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market numbered in millions would find it prohibitively expensive to set up their own Highstreet stores , even if they were permitted to proliferate in this way . |
| 7 | This is simply an overspilling of sexual activity under conditions of extreme frustration , and the animals which have been seen to perform in this way have also been observed to copulate normally afterwards , if mates are provided . |
| 8 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 9 | Bristol and West claims these auctions will help to bring some action to an otherwise slow market , and says it was overwhelmed by the response from people wanting to sell in this way . |
| 10 | Well , oh gosh , the team seemed to play in one way like , nine man rugby scrum , scrum and scrum half and that 's about it is n't it , probably was how we planned it . |
| 11 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 12 | Now , you know , behaviour that 's visible to college is behaviour which the college starts to think about wanting to regulate in some way . |
| 13 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 14 | Want was all he could do , for his body had long ago ceased to function in that way . |
| 15 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 16 | Incidentally the trust are also asking for financial support from anyone and if you would like to help in this way send cheques/postal orders payable to The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust to : The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust , Royal Free Hospital , LONDON NW3 2QG . |
| 17 | If you would like to help in any way , or would like to go along on the next trip in September , contact Keith Taylor on 1252 29806 . |
| 18 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 19 | Now that we seem to be approaching , by way of plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading , some sort of general theory of earth history acceptable to the physicists , it is perhaps unwise to continue to hypothesise in this way . |
| 20 | The author of the Anonimalle Chronicle , however , who evidently had some admiration for Gaunt 's achievement , believed that the army only began to suffer in this way when it wintered in Gascony . |
| 21 | She knew finally why she had stayed to suffer in this way , so she could explain to him and he would see . |
| 22 | Continuing on the subject of getting involved , the committee are always delighted to hear from anyone wishing to help in any way ( half an hour once a year on a stall or helping at an open coffee morning would be tremendous ) . |
| 23 | It was n't long before one of the young men dancing opposite the priestesses also began to act in this way . |
| 24 | This is not intended to demean in any way the at times very fine lithographs that Redon produced , but rather to imply that they are directly connected in his mind to the literary and visual sources that interested him , including Edgar Allan Poe , Charles Baudelaire , Gustave Flaubert , Stephane Mallarmé , and Goya amongst others . |
| 25 | There 's a popular misconception that a beginner 's instrument does n't have to function in any way like a professional model , because much less is expected of it , and that is just not altogether true . |
| 26 | It is important to understand that we are breaking a habit , for we have been conditioned to react in this way . |
| 27 | Erm the people who have problems erm I would think , because of of feeling probably the way , they feel about living in the flats or about having to live in that way , does n't make them feel any batter about erm you know any any other particular difficulties that they 're having . |
| 28 | It is certainly true that helical structures known to assemble in this way almost invariably possess only one hand . |
| 29 | What crime have we committed that we should have to live in this way ? ’ |
| 30 | So that means that er , in th the total we do have to pay in some way or another , is four thousand pounds with sixty but we 'll say we 've already got three thousand four hundred , if all the for , forty people go and they pay twenty five pounds each , that 's another thousand , so we 've got a I think I 've got it right , a , we 're only a hundred and sixty short . |