Example sentences of "in this way [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it the statement ‘ God is Truth ’ seems to imply that Truth is an attribute or description of God , and in the first instance Gandhi was content to allow the phrase to be used in this way although it did not accurately reflect his position . |
| 2 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 3 | One successful American developer sold practically all his second phase units in this way before he actually put them onto the market . |
| 4 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 5 | It is in this way that we are able to develop an appreciation of spatial order . |
| 6 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 7 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 8 | It was in this way that he made many of his policy decisions . |
| 9 | It was in this way that he discovered that not all Morris 's application with the typewriter was devoted to ‘ In Years Gone By . ’ |
| 10 | It is only in this way that it is possible to explain the fact that Chingis Khan was able to organize the nomads of Central Asia , an extraordinarily disparate collection of groupings whether considered ‘ racially ’ or ‘ linguistically ’ , into a unified and effective war machine . |
| 11 | It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant . |
| 12 | And it was in this way that I clearly began to hear the call of God . |
| 13 | We will also see cases where we do not categorize whole organizations in this way but we separate out those functions within the organization which could be classed as Type A and those which could be classed as Type B. This can also lead to parts of public sector organizations being classified as ‘ profit-oriented ’ , a trend that has been particularly marked during the 1980s with the increasing use of Direct Service Organizations in local authorities , Hospital Trusts in the health service and Executive Agencies in the civil service . |
| 14 | He did not explain how this latter figure squared with McAteer 's figure of two thousand ; Nationalists and Unionists often threw figures at each other in this way but it was not always clear exactly what they meant . |
| 15 | It is certainly true that it can be used in this way but it is far from being the only way to use video in the classroom — particularly in language teaching . |
| 16 | You can also move a range of cells in this way once it has been blocked . |
| 17 | But ask them why they interact in this way and they will eventually pass you on to a scientist who ( no matter how many equations they might try to confuse you with ) in the end can only say ‘ Well , that 's the way things are ’ . |
| 18 | Fact recognition method it 's a piece of hardware and one of the things that 's clear actually is that er the Alexander worlds and all sorts of other people that were working on this do n't look at them in this way and they look at these as I say ram blocks . |
| 19 | Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa . |
| 20 | And if you 've told someone else I 'm going to change my work practices in this way and it 's been supported then is it , it 's more difficult to forget about it |
| 21 | It was not seemly for the Second Son to outshine the father in this way and I knew instinctively that before a year had passed there would be more building in the compound . |
| 22 | Many a wet day was passed in this way for he let me help him , or did I hinder ? |
| 23 | We are of course aware that educational levels may be important at some stage , but we do not pre-classify in this way because we do not assume beforehand that we know the sociolinguistic structure of the speech community : this is what we are trying to find out ! |
| 24 | In some cases , Church authorities have proceeded in this way because they felt that permission was more likely to be forthcoming . |
| 25 | The case study themes have been expressed in this way because I am anxious that the political implications , the implications for collective social action , are to the forefront . |
| 26 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , much of the investment that took place was never evaluated in this way because it was regarded as " inescapable " , that is , necessary to supply a satisfactory service level , rather than the level of service supplied being part of the decision-making procedure . |
| 28 | Comment : We often react in this way when we 're unsure what emotional needs the other person is expressing , and how to deal with them . |
| 29 | Marxists use the term in this way when they talk about the ideology of the ruling class . |
| 30 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |