Example sentences of "ways [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [am/are] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The pronounced physical differences between them result only from the contrasted ways in which they are erupted .
2 My present concern , however , is with the contribution of metaphor and simile to the meaning of the novel , and specifically with the ways in which they are deployed to reflect the developing linguistic and intellectual abilities of the characters .
3 Thirdly , Lyons points out that if one thinks of anaphora as reference to entities already established in the domain of discourse , then the ways in which they are referred to in anaphoric reference commonly make use of the order in which they were introduced by the discourse itself .
4 The theme of the 1991 JFIT Conference is ‘ steering research towards user requirements ’ and the main aim of the Conference will be to discuss the objectives of the programmes funded under JFIT and assess the ways in which they are meeting the requirements of the users .
5 Questions about the size of the elite , the degree of concentration of social power in their hands , and about the ways in which they are recruited seem more salient and contentious .
6 Natural languages , after all , just do have indexicals , and it is the task of linguistic analysis to model these directly in order to capture the ways in which they are used .
7 Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies .
8 This same observation can be applied to other ways in which we are describing ourselves .
9 There are so many ways in which we are conditioned by people or events that impinged on our early lives .
10 But it 's also erm about discovering the completeness of the ministry of the people of God as we enter through the various commitments that we have to our sister churches in Wales and in Britain and in the world , whether it 's routine or a particular relationship of members or All that 's part of the context of the ways in which we 're talking about and sharing with each other with God .
11 Similarly a blind social worker commented : ‘ I 'm able to say to my clients , ‘ I 'll help you , but there are certain ways in which you are going to have to help me ’ , and the client does n't feel totally taken over or totally worthless . ’
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