Example sentences of "in its [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
2 | It 's very funnily printerly about it in its odd way . |
3 | Study of the people , according to the discussion in this chapter , involves their characterization according to how the world of work is organized , how social life outside work is structured in its manifold ways , and how politics are constructed ( Johnston , 1990b ) . |
4 | In principle , the play should be more sinister and much funnier in its jet-black way than this version allows . |
5 | It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be , and in its terrible way it was apt . |
6 | The concept of planning can be applied in its various ways to a whole range of activities . |
7 | It did n't ring in its usual way . |
8 | ‘ In its small way , the Army also contends . |
9 | A place of historical interest in its small way , especially for its sudden death at the end of the fourth century , after the legions that were its life and its protection had been withdrawn . |
10 | The climb continued in its honest way . |
11 | At meetings in May 1788 , March and June 1789 , the Odiham Society , in its leisurely way , resolved to advertise its intention to educate two or more boys ‘ at the great School of Farriery in the neighbourhood of Paris , where children from every part of Europe are taught the business of Farriery scientifically and practically , and solicit the contributions of the Public at large ’ . |
12 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
13 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
14 | She contemplates a surprisingly bellicose analogy : ‘ sport in its own way is another war — somehow we must regenerate the old fighting spirit . ’ |
15 | She contemplates a surprisingly bellicose analogy : ‘ sport in its own way is another war — somehow we must regenerate the old fighting spirit . ’ |
16 | And although his glitzy Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove , California , is not everybody 's idea of a parish church , in its own way that is what it is . |
17 | Familiar and wry , but just as fierce in its own way . |
18 | We view the re-organisation of the rural school , and the development of a strong connection between the area school and community services and the community centre , as an aspect of community development which can improve social life in the rural areas , meeting the needs of the rural population in its own way . ’ |
19 | These , then , are the three groups that will evaluate the effectiveness of client participation , each in its own way and using its own peculiar criteria . |
20 | basis for the adjustment and co-ordination of action unsurpassed in its own way … evolution consists in the gradual replacement of instinct by reason and , it is the final goal of reason … to bring all the experience of the race to bear in organising the whole life of the race . |
21 | I agree with J. L. Mackie 's comment that respect for law can express not identification but some other attitudes , such as acknowledgement on the part of tourists that each country is entitled to regulate its own affairs in its own way . |
22 | They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other . |
23 | But , in its own way , it could never be described as anything less than a remarkably articulate and detailed player , and certainly no-one will fail to be swayed by its fine engineering , or Linn 's track record in improving existing products in the field when the time comes , instead of merely replacing them . |
24 | However , each of these types of censorable literature is subversive in its own way : obscene literature is morally subversive , racist literature is socially subversive , and seditious literature is politically subversive . |
25 | As a counterpoint to the dramatic formation of major fault lines and tectonic intrusions , which are major focuses for the occurrence of Earth Lights phenomena , the slow deposition of sedimentary rocks builds up the character of an area in its own way . |
26 | In its own way , the site will respond by allowing you to share in its store of wisdom . |
27 | Sometimes you have to be more patient and allow the universe to bring you joy and abundance in its own way , and in its own time . |
28 | So , the jealousy does not form a subject of his thought , one among many , but a lens which filters , colours , interprets everything in its own way . |
29 | symbolic representation , the labour process , and interaction on the basis of reciprocity ; each mediates subject and object in its own way . |
30 | What followed was , in its own way , even more remarkable . |