Example sentences of "in [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Throughout this book we have been alert to the possibility of individual organisms ‘ cheating ’ in subtle ways against their social companions .
2 We worried at first that the children might be sceptical and uninterested ; but we soon found that nine year olds have already heard of atoms in garbled ways from comics and really want to know about them .
3 Yeah er if you , what was on tonight was er on the , there was a T V programme on tonight called What the Papers Say and the editor Alistaire Campbell was on tonight , he is actually quite left-wing and this paper will , is actually quite vehement about the government , much more than the Sun would ever be , it 's quite interesting , yet that is owned by Murdoch , but I have to say that I think that is only because Murdoch is n't liked in that way since to have
4 I have also believed that with the right hand turned sideways , spin produces outswing better than polish , and , with the new ball , I always spun one or two balls in that way during the very first over .
5 There was after all nothing remarkable about seeing two men kiss in that way at that time of the night .
6 The Profitboss does n't see selling in that way at all .
7 It is difficult to imagine situations where a clause could be construed in that way at common law and still be judged reasonable under the Act .
8 I do n't see him in that way at all . ’
9 It is sickening that the Government would never dare to treat taxpayers in that way over their entitlements to past reliefs or past allowances .
10 It is contemptible for a Government to behave in that way about an important and constituent part of the United Kingdom .
11 All the same , nobody can afford to get stuck in that way of thinking .
12 The Parisians , in that way of theirs , just turned the cheek and bore down on us anyway .
13 Perhaps he spent a lot of his time reacting in that way to the most innocent of remarks .
14 ‘ A prisoner does not talk in that way to a camp officer …
15 Investment decisions , at least those of significance and substance , are not made in that way within large organizations .
16 She would rather be slobbered over by the randiest male than be touched in that way by her own sex .
17 Baked Asparagus with Pine Nuts and Gruyere … refreshing Cucumber Mousse with Gazpacho Sauce — just three of the 140 delectable dishes in FRESH WAYS WITH VEGETABLES , that will delight all creative cooks .
18 In Italy the technological renovation of industry altered the basic conditions of employment in different ways across various firms and sectors , resulting in the general clauses of national agreements becoming obsolete and moving the centre of industrial conflict towards the enterprise itself ( Treu , 1981 ) .
19 The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block .
20 The core material covers the syllabus in depth , and can be exploited in different ways with different types of class .
21 Although men and women are remarkably consistent about the frequency and type of sexual practices reported , strong cultural forces may nevertheless influence men and women in different ways with respect to accurate reporting of the number of sexual partners .
22 This means that the cellular mechanisms of , say , remembering a telephone number and remembering how to drive a car would n't differ — it would just be that different cells , connected up in different ways with other parts of the brain , are involved .
23 We both work for our area in different ways with our different policies .
24 Of particular interest to him were those writers who were ‘ concerned in different ways with human nature , individual and collective consciousness and the conditions of social order ’ .
25 It is a short step from this view to the position that there are several Third ( and First ) Worlds and that each of these Worlds has a specific set of relations with global capitalism , or even that there is no such thing as global capitalism but that there are several capitalisms operating nationally and internationally in different ways with different Third Worlds .
26 The thrust of their work points away from the particularities of individuality to engage in different ways with the significance of the Incarnation which for them provides the ultimate pattern of meaning for all men .
27 Freedberg ( 1989 ) has shown how social workers have applied the principle in different ways at different times .
28 ( Occasionally it is useful to ask essentially the same question in different ways at different points as a check . )
29 These latter arguments , fixed in different ways on the question of how the statute should be read , make sense only on the assumption that the law judges have an obligation to enforce depends on the " correct " reading even when it is controversial what that is ; this is exactly the assumption conventionalism denies .
30 Official statistics are gathered and recorded in different ways between one country and another .
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