Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] ways [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all these ways they were more akin to urban dwellers , and felt they had some independent choices to make in order to improve their lives . |
| 2 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 3 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 4 | In terms of the lifestyle her wage will support , the secretary is not really middle-class ; yet in other important ways she does differ from the builder . |
| 5 | Sociolinguists should therefore keep in mind the possibility that some women 's more standard speech could reflect the fact that class categorisation assumes parity between married couples , whereas in certain relevant ways they do not have parity . |