Example sentences of "and [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise of wheels on uneven roads mingled with the voices of the elite as they alighted at their respective destinations and made their slow and stately way into the houses which had lights in every room from attic to cellar . |
| 2 | It is the autumn statement of a Government who have been able to increase public expenditure , in a well-targeted and specific way , by 20 per cent . |
| 3 | I think that animal forms could be almost infinitely varied and the actual forms you see are the forms which Darwin led us to see , namely the forms which are adapted to particular and specific ways of life . |
| 4 | Thus , though it demonstrates the existence from the outset a common source of inspiration in Owenism for both trade unionism and co-operation , it demonstrates also that trade unionism saw Producer Co-operation not as an alternative and preferable way of organising manufacture and hence one to be adopted generally , not in short as a prime purpose , but as an occasional weapon . |
| 5 | Time was when such books as existed in English were general and non-specific in nature , treating Community law in a superficial and introductory way . |
| 6 | A boy or girl who appears to be rejecting parental values may be developing in a more healthy and normal way than one who follows the parent 's party line and gives no trouble . |
| 7 | It is felt that by doing this the planning department can gain a better understanding of the information needed by the business units , their concerns and possible ways in which they could be assisted . |
| 8 | I think it clear , and indeed the Home Office Circular of 1930 explicitly states ( page 4 ) , that it is in order to secure this aim , and in recognition of the fact that a person in custody is in a specially vulnerable position , and hence particularly at a disadvantage in responding to questions in a balanced and measured way , that it has been thought safer both to prohibit questioning after a certain point , and to exclude from evidence answers given to such questioning . |
| 9 | I would prefer to use the gallery 's permanent collection in new and innovative ways ’ , one curator believes , ‘ He 's just saying the politically correct thing there . |
| 10 | I think that the church has the responsibility to continue to find new and innovative ways of reaching out and doing a better job and that is er testimony to the fact that we can continue to reach out to persons who are suffering in many ways , and I would appreciate and look forward to learning better from you how to do that and would be happy to share . |
| 11 | These programmes must emphasise that scientific research is our highest priority , and they should be developed to convey knowledge derived from plant science research in interesting and innovative ways . |
| 12 | Both provide Vacher 's style material ‘ plus ’ , in a more attractive and reader-friendly way . |
| 13 | It was accepted without question , even by the Copts , that Zoser had been the Zikr 's killer and the Moslems were pleased that the matter had ended in such a satisfactory and clean-cut way . |
| 14 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
| 15 | Maybe people have to look at alternatives and non-governmental ways to change things . |
| 16 | Mr Goria , 49 , a former Christian Democrat prime minister , had long been a favourite target of opposition MPs and was unpopular in the country because of the chaotic and tactless way he introduced a hated property tax last year . |
| 17 | Pupils should encounter an environment in which they are surrounded by books and other reading material presented in an attractive and inviting way . |
| 18 | In such quiet periods capacities of a primarily functional nature come to operate in a peculiarly unified and simultaneous way . |
| 19 | So far the Finance Ministry has done a good job by letting off steam in a controlled and orderly way , but it is hard to stop the process of deflation once it has gained momentum . |
| 20 | According to Schutz , we take for granted that the world works in a reasonably rational and orderly way , unless and until something goes wrong . |
| 21 | In between measurements its state vector ( wavefunction ) propagates in the smooth and orderly way prescribed by the Schrödinger equation . |
| 22 | This is that students are expected to respond in a subjective and emotional way to texts ; yet they must also accept the ‘ objective ’ judgement of the canon . |
| 23 | Many black people find the term derogatory and racist because they feel it is a conscious and hypocritical way of denying the reality of a child 's blackness . |
| 24 | The ruthless and bloody ways of Capitalism are not our ways . |
| 25 | Until the seventeenth century many , even most , European frontiers were very vague , zones in which the claims and jurisdictions of different rulers and their subjects overlapped and intersected in a complex and confusing way . |
| 26 | In the last five years there has been a clear commitment from the Nursery/First , Middle and Comprehensive schools to work in a co-operative and supportive way , resulting in a pyramid of schools developing coherence and continuity for young people in the area from the ages 3–16 . |
| 27 | The form teacher then was on about that the school is for teaching only Western ways of living , and European ways of living . |
| 28 | The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way . |
| 29 | To judge from the smooth and professional way things progressed , organising and running a rally is easy . |
| 30 | The use of COMMUNITEL as a package linked to the use of Prestel and the development of information skills is well documented in the Houghton Regis School project and has been used by Prestel Education as publicity material The potential uses of such packages can be seen by examining the different ways in which school librarians and pupils can effectively present information in a novel and professional way . |