Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a historical accident that the sports in which blacks were overrepresented compared to their proportion in the general population were those demanding little in the way of equipment or facilities . |
| 2 | I want you — take me , ’ she whispered , twisting now in a way not designed to keep him away . |
| 3 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 4 | However , it is clear that the parents will often not admit their true feelings about the child and the incident , acting rather in a way which they perceive to be desirable in the circumstances , to gain the return of their children . |
| 5 | Shot and shell rained in on the village , orchard and chateau grounds , tearing up the earth , smashing roofs and rafters , but causing little in the way of casualties . |
| 6 | An SJ-20 would be a good choice for the all-rounder kind of player who 's looking for a healthy amount of out-and-out acoustic oomph from an instrument without sacrificing much in the way of tone quality . |
| 7 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 8 | It is doing so in a way that does not give wind a good name . |
| 9 | Throughout much of urban Spain the lower-middle class , whilst larger than is sometimes suggested , was engaged in relatively small-scale economic activities involving little in the way of enterprise : family-based manufacturing , localized commerce , a primitive service sector , and not least important the buying , selling and leasing of land — a major middle-class preoccupation since the disentailment of the Church 's landed property in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The Supreme Court having removed quite a few familiar landmarks without issuing much in the way of fresh navigational guidance , the courts faced some difficulties in addressing the issue of the Convention 's applicability . |
| 11 | Businesses are not making much in the way of profits , yet their business rate bills continue to go up and up , ’ he added . |
| 12 | In addition , the regular meetings with West Germany under the 1963 Treaty of Friendship were yielding little in the way of positive results . |