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Example sentences of "in a [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Yet in a curious way it was John who did more to restore Sam than any of them .
2	In a curious way he would miss Tibbles .
3	In a curious way he seemed more formidable than before .
4	In a curious way you can understand what is being said only by letting your mind slip into the same fuzzy state Shepherd 's must have been in when he spoke .
5	You 'll probably laugh , but , well , we thought we could help each other to be good — in a spiritual way I mean .
6	God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends .
7	The deep sea-blue eyes were unreadable , yet in a strange way she felt pinned to the spot by them , like a butterfly trapped and doomed to die .
8	In a strange way she was n't even surprised .
9	But in a strange way he has done wonders for our social life .
10	She nodded , and in a strange way I suddenly felt outnumbered .
11	In a strange way I felt almost embarrassed that such things were happening in my name .
12	In a strange way it can actually contribute to the success of many marriages , for not every woman wants to spend her life with an eternal Romeo .
13	In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year .
14	In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one .
15	In a similar way we can first examine ray average costs and returns to scale along a ray .
16	In a similar way we can mock an accent or dialect , projecting a stereotyped figure more in the manner that stage actors do than in the manner that mere quotation provides …
17	In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life .
18	In a similar way it was the growing wealth of the planters which first drew English manufactures to the American colonies .
19	Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all .
20	I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up .
21	‘ By encouraging people to manage in a certain way you make it seem more appropriate to appoint women . ’
22	That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on .
23	His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over .
24	There is clearly — indeed there would have to be — more to Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life than the sources record , and while in a general way it is unquestionably right to urge caution in adopting Husameddin 's material , in this particular case there appears to be evidence which at the least requires an alternative explanation before being dismissed .
25	‘ In a little way it did , because we did really want to keep it small .
26	In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance .
27	Used in a limited way they are very effective .
28	In a major way we found people who simply have n't enough to eat .
29	If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina .
30	The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts .