Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that agreed as a fair way of proceeding ? |
| 2 | In some ways this is the ‘ tyranny of the majority ’ argument ( met in chapter 4 ) described in a different way . |
| 3 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 4 | Smith described an operation to remove ‘ enlarged nymphae ’ where the patient behaved in a sexual way . |
| 5 | She behaved in a shocking way towards her . |
| 6 | Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s . |
| 7 | The Bantu press newspaper group was a similar venture : part-owned by the Argus Group , it also tried in a paternalistic way to guide Africans in an approved direction . |
| 8 | Alison presided in a relaxed way , finding things for people to do , drawing them out , drawing them in . |
| 9 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 10 | Returning , she surveyed in a dispassionate way her husband of twenty years : the incipient double chin , the receded hair-line , the hairy chest — constricted by his sideways turn — pouched almost in a female way . |
| 11 | They became involved in sustaining the feudal superiorities from which they profited in a small way . |
| 12 | It does n't only happen with women : it happened in a different way with Tom Keating and Chris Frayling ( who is Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Even if we celebrated in a small way we would have attracted tourists from all over the world . |
| 14 | It grew in a boggy area where there was a spring and a small stream which flowed in a desultory way after the autumn rains but almost dried up in summer . |
| 15 | Blanche nodded in a conciliatory way . |
| 16 | For pleasure and stimulation in this zone of transition many people turned to a criminal way of life . |
| 17 | He sniffed in a deprecating way and eyed Charles 's uniform . |
| 18 | Work on planning the Civic Centre began in a haphazard way . |
| 19 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
| 20 | Such pressure began in a mild way in 1960 after some speculative activity in the gold market occurred , based on dawning fears that the dollar might not for ever be ‘ as good as gold ’ ( i.e. fixed in terms of gold ) . |
| 21 | The Workers ' Travel Association was set up to give workers the opportunity to travel ; it began in a modest way but by the 1950s had become a worldwide organization . |
| 22 | For the smaller group who wanted a Romantic wildness for their seaside interludes , one other place made provision : Seaford began in a modest way around 1810 to house less well-off visitors in its one sizeable inn . |
| 23 | He grinned in a casual way , but did n't move . |
| 24 | So that , erm just as you can construct a house out of bricks and mortar , and really , although the house looks very different from just bricks and mortar , it is just bricks and mortar arranged in a certain way , so the glass , the bottle , erm although it looks a very different thing from a sense experience , is really nothing more than a very complicated pattern of actual and possible sense experiences . |
| 25 | The species within each type represented different modifications of the basic pattern , each adapted to a particular way of life . |
| 26 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 27 | He looked … taut , Virginia registered in a detached way . |
| 28 | ‘ But what has happened ? ’ the thin man asked in a bewildered way . |
| 29 | The invitation arose in a dramatic way , the sequel to a tremendous storm at Great Yarmouth where George Borrow was then resident . |
| 30 | When the number ended he clapped in a careful way , unconsciously trying.to say exactly what he felt about it . |