Example sentences of "in a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 2 | ‘ No , you get foxes , ’ Granny added , in a self-satisfied way . |
| 3 | First , at the most general level , testing , and other forms of assessment , represent education in a mechanistic way . |
| 4 | She sat Nicandra down on her own chair , the chair that always smelt , in a hesitating way , of Nannie 's bottom , and knelt to take off the laced boots — Maman held to a rather Chinese theory on the suppression of growth ; the white kid boots were on the small side and not often replaced because they were French , very expensive , and not obtainable from Start-rite . |
| 5 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 6 | We were representatives of so many branches of sciences that we used to speak of ourselves , in a jocular way , as a British Association , in miniature , for the amusements of science . |
| 7 | People waved and shouted ‘ Starboard ’ and ‘ Water ’ in a jocular way . |
| 8 | I had even been accused , in a jocular way , by one of my senior officers , of operating a blockade of the Channel . |
| 9 | ‘ I never used the word ‘ hippy ’ about myself except in a jocular way . |
| 10 | Humanism has resulted in a hedonistic way of life which is turning out to be anti-intellectual and irrational — consider the works of Francis Bacon — or Sid Vicious . |
| 11 | Their new entertainment was thought of as a slightly hysterical activity organized in a gypsy-like way by men who were , in Bosley Crowther 's phrase , ‘ hobbled by no preconceptions of the canons of propriety and good form ’ . |
| 12 | He must not sneak over them in a halfhearted way nor must he be allowed to flatten over them . |
| 13 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 14 | A newly elected collegium , it was announced on Sept. 16 , included " competent people who think in a modern way and who have stood the tests of the crisis " , according to a spokesman . |
| 15 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 16 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 17 | ‘ We can but of course it wo n't be as easy for us to get away once Maggie is gone , ’ she said it in a pleasant way that sometimes humoured him and sometimes could put his teeth on edge . |
| 18 | For just two-coloured stripes you can still work in regular row sections but if you have the purl side as the right side the stripes blur in a pleasant way and merge toning colours splendidly . |
| 19 | Returning , she surveyed in a dispassionate way her husband of twenty years : the incipient double chin , the receded hair-line , the hairy chest — constricted by his sideways turn — pouched almost in a female way . |
| 20 | I have an ideal picture of a Chairman of a Select Committee who is knowledgeable , takes an overview of the subject and does not hold a strongly party political view , but weighs the evidence in a dispassionate way . |
| 21 | Such comparisons suggest a fixed set of symbols or rules which operate in a fixed way , whereas this is only partially true of language . |
| 22 | This of course does not deny the grief that will be expressed , but it often acts as a strong trigger for its positive expression in a healthy way . |
| 23 | Good social researchers are sceptical ( in a healthy way ) and take nothing on trust . |
| 24 | For some it may be that the act of crying was left free for them to use in a healthy way . |
| 25 | Our house system means that girls get to compete against each other in a healthy way . |
| 26 | It showed a preponderance of admissions due to material crises ( homelessness , debt ) or behavioural problems , with parents motivated by their children 's welfare , and social workers responding in a supportive way , via negotiation and agreement . |
| 27 | Returning , she surveyed in a dispassionate way her husband of twenty years : the incipient double chin , the receded hair-line , the hairy chest — constricted by his sideways turn — pouched almost in a female way . |
| 28 | ‘ Members of the secret police and wardens behaved in a correct way towards me , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 30 | At the same time this is not to deny there are administrators and administrations which claim to act , even want to act , in a disinterested way . |