Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way .
2 The modern world has discovered that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C — and has started using them in a big way for cooking .
3 We will now develop these themes and combine them in a systematic way to construct an improved understanding of the relationship between daily life and the nation state .
4 Teaching materials usually provide very little in the way of explicit rationale which would enable teachers to modify them in a principled way with reference to the ideas which inform them .
5 But he told them in a straightforward way .
6 Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way .
7 If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm .
8 However , it is likely to be preferable to limit the range of choices facing the teacher at any moment and to group them in a natural way from a teaching point of view .
9 Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way .
10 If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together .
11 Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree .
12 He had a gift for coming up with innovative ideas , suggesting links that others would never dream of , and testing them in a rough way to see if they were flawed or might instead lead somewhere .
13 For he had the bi the ability to take the ordinary things of life , and interpret them in an effective way .
14 Get them round the wrong way , of course , and you spend ten thousand pounds worth of preparation on a ten p problem .
15 After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’
16 In June 1901 , the Board received a letter in which he expressed his gratitude for the provision of a room for himself , and congratulated them on the efficient way in which the alterations had been carried out .
17 You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long .
18 In practice that means keeping an eye out for leadership qualities and sometimes selecting on that basis and , at the same time , encouraging the absorption of certain leadership precepts by those who do not seem to possess them in a natural way .
19 And the Cid and his people pursued , punishing them in a bad way .
20 So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution .
21 The increasingly objectivity and precision of O'Keeffe 's imagery also made a strong impression on critic henry McBride , though he interpreted them in a surprising way .
22 Function models are important because they enable us to separate tasks and approach them in an organized way .
23 The verderers ' familiarity with the district from earlier years could only serve them in a general way , for the woodland paths varied from season to season .
24 Then another child sorted them in a different way .
25 Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically .
26 It might be unpractical to replicate eastern culture in the west , but there is much to be gained from extracting certain elements of that culture and adapting them to the western way of life .
27 Having achieved professional status by means of success in competitive examinations , they are likely to feel a sense of obligation to working-class pupils to equip them in a similar way .
28 Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily .
29 We can look to our institutions of higher education becoming more rational in their inner processes , with their members working together in articulating a shared view of an institution 's aims and fulfilling them in a corporate way .
30 which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way
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