Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be behaviour that is different or unusual in a way that is disapproved of , such as stealing or children-battering . |
| 2 | Put another way , they wish to say , and indeed advertise , that there is nothing transient , superficial , or casual in the way they view each other and wish to be viewed . |
| 3 | It suggests too why the other of sexual fantasy may be stereotypical or two-dimensional in a way somehow at odds with the intensity and density of the desire which constructs it . |
| 4 | The version here is his next to last , and although inimitable in a way , it is not quite so feather-light and magical as some of the other accounts . |
| 5 | Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult . |
| 6 | You 're generous and selfless in a way I could never be . ’ |
| 7 | erm How does one in any case fine a motorist who is n't standing by his car or sitting in it ? erm I would , if the question is shall we try it , if that is implied , I would say it 's worth trying in a very moderate way , it may require the police and the police representatives so to speak , the wardens if they 're going to be empowered to do this kind of thing , I think it 's going to force them to become very , very diplomatic and civilized in the way they handle it , but we of course too will have to learn to respond in a civilized manner . |
| 8 | Sodomy was not thought to originate in a pathological subjectivity ( the modern pervert ) ; rather , the sexual deviant was the vehicle of a confusion never only sexual , and sexual in a way different from the sexological and psychoanalytic accounts . |
| 9 | But everything else had been alive and splendid in a way it had not been for years . |
| 10 | It was personalized and identifiable in a way unknown since Lloyd George 's heyday . |
| 11 | His voices , insights , personae and images feel truthful and contemporary in a way that most theatre does not . |
| 12 | They were like Little And Large in a way , but I never did work out which one was the straight man . |
| 13 | In general it is expected that the engineer shall be fair and reasonable in the way he or she administers the contract . |
| 14 | ‘ He was n't exactly a winner but he was honest and decent in every way . |
| 15 | She was fun and easy to be with , natural and down to earth , yet she was sensitive and courageous in the way she had coped with her father 's illness . |
| 16 | In inventing a powerfully compelling fictional world in which women learn to recognize their own power , the book is politically committed , subversive and dynamic in a way that Spielberg did not begin to recognize . |
| 17 | He looked past her , his expression withdrawn and distant in the way she disliked , and when he spoke it was without warmth : ‘ I was personal slave to the Master and as such did personal tasks . ’ |
| 18 | By the eighteenth century , therefore , the machinery of international relations in Europe combined old and new in the way inevitable in any form of organisation undergoing slow and unplanned change . |
| 19 | It was dirty and shoddy in a way that was very symbolic of New York : square blocks , square buildings , several storeys higher than English ones , packed full of people , no yards , no gardens , not even mingy ones with soot covered plants . |
| 20 | Words like ‘ bitch ’ and ‘ shrew ’ imply that women are in some way transgressing their feminine role ; such women are too strong and stroppy , not considerate and attentive in the way women are meant to be . |
| 21 | Sir John Banham , for instance , welcomed my right hon. Friend 's prudent Budget and the priority that he gives to reducing inflation , while the Institute of Directors said that the Budget was prudent and correct in every way . |
| 22 | But I thought they were perfectly acceptable and surprised in a way that so many people commented adversely on them . |
| 23 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 24 | She has never been cited as tactless in the way that Princess Michael has . |
| 25 | ‘ And that 's also why I try to make my equipment as versatile as possible in the way it functions . |
| 26 | Quakers had long distinguished between the policeman and the soldier , and the suppression of disorder among heathens was seen as legitimate in a way that prosecuting war between civilized Christian peoples could never be . |