Example sentences of "in [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In different ways she loved them all ; even her weak-natured husband , who showered all of them with affection , and who was filled with excitement that , at long last , he was about to become a father in his own right . |
| 2 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 3 | In artistic ways they do because the records are successful but I 'm tired of being broke , very tired of that , and it 's especially hurtful when you meet so many in the industry who do n't have quite your status but are laughably rich . ’ |
| 4 | Well they crofted in small way I suppose , and went the fishing . |
| 5 | First , because markets are imperfect in various ways they will tolerate serious levels of inefficiency . |
| 6 | They 're faster and stronger but in other ways we 're as good as them |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In other ways they varied : three had very high OBS scores , were unable to manage much of their own personal and environmental care , and needed safeguarding . |
| 9 | But if the cultural materialists , unlike the more fastidious new historicists , cheerfully ignore the theoretical consequences of Foucault 's work for many Marxist concepts , in other ways they are closer to him insofar as they make clear in their work their own political priorities and commitments . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | But in other ways they differ very strongly . |
| 12 | Besides , in other ways it was not at all like a wave motion . |
| 13 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 14 | In other ways it was really petty and you could get nicked for daft little things . |
| 15 | In other ways I suppose I could be said to prosper tolerably well . |
| 16 | They 'll be exercised in other ways I imagine will they ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 19 | When I get a compliment from him it 's nice , because in other ways he 's cool about things . |
| 20 | In other ways he proved far from ideal . |
| 21 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 22 | Always excellent on that yes , he 's a toad in some ways but in other ways he 's very good . |
| 23 | ‘ And in certain ways I 've been very lucky . |