Example sentences of "[adj] way [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that , as soon as anyone is given a piece of information , he will tend to treat the person involved in a slightly different way as a result . |
| 2 | He wondered if it was because a woman 's mind worked in a different way to a man 's or whether Blanche simply thought too much . |
| 3 | Partly , this is because the author rightly recognizes that many users of the Statute Book approach it in a different way from a judge who is presented with two opposing interpretations with supporting arguments . |
| 4 | A noun phrase in the X-position interacts semantically with see in a different way from a noun phrase in the Y-position ( the exact nature of these interactions can be considered part of the meaning of see ) . |
| 5 | The best way to find it is to look some way off a line joining Beta Ceti to Alpha Phœnicis . |
| 6 | He pleaded , hardly sounding like the tough guy the public identified him with , ‘ Surely there must be some way for a person falsely accused of disloyalty to clear his name once and for all ? |
| 7 | Far from being neutral , the objects and descriptions become in fact suffused with meaning when attached in some way to a centre of consciousness . |
| 8 | What could we measure which might be different about a neuron which had changed its structure in some way as a result of learning ? |
| 9 | Even in the case of married applicants for joint mortgages , the Equal Opportunities Commission ( EOC ) found that 36 per cent of building societies in their study discriminated in some way against a couple with a higher earning wife ( EOC , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be outrageous if this House were to be by-passed in some way by a nit-picking legalistic exercise simply to get round the political difficulties facing the Government in a situation where they are likely to be defeated on amendment 27 , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The radius of gyration calculated in this way for a polydisperse sample is a z-average . |
| 12 | We have n't been round this way for a while have we ? |
| 13 | Nor did we come all this way for a christening . |
| 14 | Henry III and Edward I made provision in this way for a number of royal servants of different kinds . |
| 15 | Most students feel this way for a week or two . |
| 16 | The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result . |
| 17 | Then you used to chop them down this way with a cleaver . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 19 | You can of course save a motif drawn in this way on a memory card . |
| 20 | It involved the registration of the seafaring inhabitants of the coastal areas of France ( and later also of the population on the banks of navigable rivers ) and the creation in this way of a pool of experienced sailors who could be used in manning the fleet . |
| 21 | When the package is released as a product in this way to a Client , it is known as an Issue of the software . |
| 22 | It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day . |
| 23 | ‘ I never thought I 'd feel this way about a man , ’ she said , her face serious . |
| 24 | The word dependant will not be used in this way as a noun . |
| 25 | ‘ Instead of manufacturing sulphuric acid as a feedstock for our plants , we can use the acid produced in this way by a power station . |
| 26 | But that , of course , is not change , debugging or repair ( the very things Minsky was referring to ) , for we would be impressed in this way by a yogi who was not able , also and in addition , to change his digestive process . |
| 27 | While the course organisers were able to operate in this way in a majority of cases , for a small number of courses which either finished early in the year , or employer.based project work was being carried out over the summer months , organisers posted on the questionnaire on behalf of [ MS . |
| 28 | He 'll come this way in a minute . |
| 29 | There would , however , be considerable practical difficulties in proceeding in this way against a firm where such changes had been substantial . |
| 30 | When a norm is internalized , it is part of a person , automatically expressed in behaviour , rather than regarded in a more detached way as a rule external to the self . |