Example sentences of "in [adj] ways that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a Dylan Thomas in Hopper , not just in his abilities but in his self-destruct mechanism and it was a great pity in many ways that he spent so many years in James Dean 's gloomy black shadow , because he is talented and perhaps even more diverse . |
| 2 | It seemed such a good morning in many ways that he was prompted to an unbearable hope and said , ‘ Would you ever marry me ? ’ |
| 3 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |
| 4 | Although the subject was never directly mentioned , it was subtly intimated in various ways that I was beholden to the Parsons for what was after all a free holiday , and was therefore expected to do rather more than my bit when it came to chauffeuring , chaperoning , shopping and suchlike chores . |
| 5 | Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it . |