Example sentences of "is [adj] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is dishonest in the way he makes a light-hearted , open contract with Antonio , which Antonio himself thinks is a joke . |
| 2 | It is wonky in a way that we can work out , even though we can not see it curving off into any extra fourth dimension . ’ |
| 3 | Incidentally , I have plenty of pocket money , as the Chinese have been very generous , and I gather have given us almost twice as much as the average wage for a Chinese university or Institute teacher — which is absurd in a way , since all our food and accommodation ( as well as free transport and haircuts ! ) are found for us . |
| 4 | Greenblatt 's Shakespearean Negotiations , for instance , is interested in the way the Elizabethan theatre produced texts which were in no respect outside other institutions of the time . |
| 5 | Series ( b ) is consistent in a way in which ( a ) is not . |
| 6 | This operator is infrequently used because it is indiscriminate in the way it joins tuples together . |
| 7 | The increased spending on health and education is welcome in every way , although those who work in schools and hospitals can not help but feel that they will be paying for it themselves by being denied pay rises . |
| 8 | Headway Pronunciation is unique in the way the exercises link pronunciation with language work , such as structures , functions , and vocabulary . |
| 9 | Such a service is unique in the way in which it works through and with other partners , in both the voluntary and statutory sectors . |
| 10 | It is the greatest weakness of this wider view of accounting that there is no system for producing the data , which is verifiable in the way that double-entry bookkeeping is . |
| 11 | This means that support which in-laws receive from each other is ambiguous in a way which does not apply to other relationships . |
| 12 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |
| 13 | Very little is available in the way of describing the types of texts available in , say , Chinese or Spanish , or of how such texts are organized . |
| 14 | The meditator is simply bidden to remember Peter although the identification with him is implicit in the way the incident is juxtaposed to the injunctions to pray : Although the formal prayer structure in the long version operates more rigidly and systematically , it is punctuated by lengthy emotive meditations . |
| 15 | The teacher is accountable in a way that the experimenter is not : her purpose is to promote the understanding of her pupils and not , except incidentally , her own . |
| 16 | Few of those disgorged from the solitary coach on the day that we were there noticed the gorge , yet it is spectacular in a way that the dais is not ; a volcanic fissure and a geological feature of startling proportions and beauty . |
| 17 | It is worrying in a way , and Peter often goes on about it to me , ’ he says . |
| 18 | It is surprising in a way that we remember these things , for those of us living off Greenwich Mean Time witnessed them at hours well past our normal bedtime . |
| 19 | Well , I suppose it is constructive in a way , but you never really see anything for it and it 's all routine . |
| 20 | And yet ii is true in a way that women have two jobs … ’ |
| 21 | ( 1 ) Doubtless a person 's behaviour in choosing between alternatives is observable in a way in which his felt satisfaction or dissatisfaction is not . |
| 22 | Handel 's Giulio Cesare ( Julius Caesar ) is dead in the way that Monteverdi 's L'Incoronazione di Poppea ( The Coronation of Poppea ) is not , even though the Handel work offers a story as racy as Shaw 's Caesar and Cleopatra . |