Example sentences of "it be [prep] some way " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often feel that it is in some way distasteful deliberately to use your behaviour to influence others and this also leads to the conclusion that manipulating behaviour is unethical . |
| 2 | It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for . |
| 3 | Retributivism claims that it is in some way morally right to return evil for evil , that two wrongs can somehow make a right . |
| 4 | I do not accept the intervener 's argument that it is in some way undignified for the decision of a visitor on the basis of advice from an eminent judge to be subject to judicial review and that if certiorari is held to be available senior judges will not wish to give such advice . |
| 5 | Simon , a manager who , at 39 , is the oldest person questioned , says : ‘ The idea that people will think it is in some way impressive to be seen drinking low-alcohol muck is obvious nonsense . ’ |
| 6 | I will point out , though , that it is in some ways a very conservative proposal , inviting a return to origins . |
| 7 | It is in some ways surprising that , even in 1965 , the idea of a comprehensive school should still seem novel , and in many ways startling . |
| 8 | However , because so much ‘ neighbouring ’ has been rooted in the notion of mutual exchange , and has always involved a fine balance between closeness and distance , it is in some ways harder for the parties to adapt to a changed role than it is , for example , in a situation where the supporter is defined from the outset as a voluntary visitor . |
| 9 | Or , perhaps , it was in some way due to the directions we gave them ? |
| 10 | Evidence was relevant if it was in some way logically connected with the matters in dispute or if it was consistent with , or inconsistent with , or gave rise to a logical inference from , the facts in issue . |
| 11 | It was in some way connected with bad things . |
| 12 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 13 | The subject tends to intimidate many farmers and yet it was in some ways a natural extension of the record keeping and budgeting that already existed on most farms at present . |
| 14 | It was in some ways superior to the verge type . |
| 15 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |