Example sentences of "[coord] in [adj] ways [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 2 | He is also the favourite and in many ways he has more charisma . |
| 3 | And in many ways I do n't think it 's important , and I , I think that in the majority of our children with those kinds of difficulties you find the two in association , and you ca n't work on one without working on the other . |
| 4 | The emphatic denigration contained in this locational insult had to be heard to be understood , and in many ways it paralleled the dismissive tone used to deride the ‘ civvy ’ , for nuances of speech and tone have immense meaning to insiders . |
| 5 | ‘ This spring collection is the most radical I 've ever shown and in many ways it marks a new beginning for me . |
| 6 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 7 | The book is complementary to Durant and Fabb 's Literary Studies in Action , published by Routledge in the Interface series in 1990 , and in many ways it could serve as a useful introduction to that volume . |
| 8 | Well we 've been very concerned to try and develop our policies and services and we find this report very helpful because it has given us a very clear lead as to the sort of things which are necessary , and in many ways it 's supporting the ideas which we 've had . |
| 9 | ‘ And in certain ways I 've been very lucky . |
| 10 | The inspectorate , who came into most frequent contact with the diversities of local procedures , were consistently interested in ‘ modernising ’ the selection system , and in some ways they were the single group most responsible for altering local authority activities . |
| 11 | And in some ways they are quite right with this gown . |
| 12 | Examination of pottery scatters might help in this , and in some ways we can consider pieces of pottery as documentary references . |
| 13 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I am confident I am just as good as I ever was and in some ways I am probably better than ever . |
| 15 | In some ways it was better and in some ways it was worse . |
| 16 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |
| 17 | He looked an ineffectual fool , and in some ways he was both ineffectual and foolish . |
| 18 | As we 'll see another if this was a black book of Freud 's , and in some ways you would say this was one of the blackest . |
| 19 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 20 | Twenty , she had said , and in some ways she seemed younger . |
| 21 | They 're faster and stronger but in other ways we 're as good as them |
| 22 | The Romans were in some respects good engineers , as is evident from their sophisticated heating systems involving plumbed hot water and their networks of roads , but in other ways they were often surprisingly primitive . |
| 23 | There are some similarities to the New Confucian officials , of course — they dressed alike , in saffron robes , and had similar rituals and ceremonies — but in other ways they were completely different . ’ |
| 24 | But in other ways they differ very strongly . |
| 25 | It is like having an auntie in a way , but in other ways she is a mum because whenever it 's anything special , she always sends up something ... but it 's as I said before , like an auntie . |
| 26 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 27 | Always excellent on that yes , he 's a toad in some ways but in other ways he 's very good . |
| 28 | But in many ways it 's been enlightening , exciting , stimulating , and above all enjoyable . |
| 29 | But in many ways you 've always been a very old-fashioned girl . |
| 30 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |