Example sentences of "way than " in BNC.

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1 This is true in more ways than simply obtaining an Equity card .
2 It was the voice of a woman released , in more ways than one , from a life of obedient acquiescence to a stronger personality .
3 ‘ I tell myself she 's got my number — in more ways than one .
4 This is appropriate in more ways than one , since , like McTaggart , Tabner has remained somewhat apart from the more experimental tendencies of his time .
5 In fact , diesels are cleaner in many ways than petrol engines in their emissions .
6 The Bolsheviks at least promised to tackle regional socio-economic backwardness , and their bureaucratic intervention in the localities was at first less oppressive in some ways than in the Tsarist past simply for lack of personnel .
7 As in the Fall narrative , which it resembles in more ways than one , there seems to be no going back ; our original innocence , the wholeness of an original bisexuality , is never retrievable .
8 Rachel Browne , 25 , who 's a trainee solicitor from Devon , believes she 's managed to influence her boyfriend Al Damon , 30 , in more fundamental ways than his style of shirt .
9 As a result , Charles is closer to his grandmother in many ways than his own mother .
10 Its very upsetting in more ways than one and an awkward time for a change of priests so Fr John will want just a little time to settle in and feel at home .
11 The Palestinians do , however , acknowledge signs of change for the better in US Jewry , Congress and the Administration , and that it is up to themselves to push them forward in much more effective ways than they have managed hitherto .
12 This shows a scene at one of her famous parties , with the greeting : ‘ Hope you can come in more ways than one . ’
13 ‘ There is no effect in nature which the Author of nature can not bring to pass by more ways than one . ’
14 The 1984 St Leger was classic Piggott in more ways than one , for the run-up to the race had been accompanied by a typical controversy over whether he had filched the big-race ride from a fellow jockey .
15 This is your baby , in more ways than one , Tammuz . ’
16 There are more ways than one in which a metaphor can mislead .
17 Lady Elizabeth Hoby was a striking woman in more ways than one ; her portrait seems to endow her with more strength and resolution than actual good looks .
18 Gardens can be thriving , living things in more ways than one .
19 Nevertheless , reviews within the periphery did begin to deal with the relationship between form and content in far more radical ways than left or core reviews were prepared to do and were even able to hint at possible political meanings that might be derived from this process .
20 Since we live on the crust , it is important to us in more ways than one , but we are only going to consider it in its relationship to events in the mantle , since these explain how Plate Tectonics works .
21 Philistinism can show in more ways than one .
22 BM is simpler in many ways than other methods that try to influence problem employees .
23 These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected .
24 She had a breach to heal , and although she was the sufferer , in more ways than one , she was determined that she would do the healing .
25 It could be their last in more ways than one . ’
26 At this stage of the war , before his illness he was much more often out of it till about 4 or 5 am ‘ fire watching ’ in more ways than one .
27 Education is an economic activity in more ways than one .
28 Certainly such management could furnish a more effectual remedy for the evils of our ways than many bills passed in the House of Parliament .
29 They were made all right and used in even more subtle ways than I explained .
30 They argue that redshifts can be produced in other ways than through the expansion of the Universe by gravity ; by the rapid motion of an object , a true Doppler shift that , thanks to relativistic effects , produces a redshift even if the object is moving across the line of sight ; or by other , unknown , means .
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