Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this view , the social scientist produces neutral science and takes no responsibility for the ways in which it is used . |
| 2 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 3 | In contrast to this , I wish to argue that if disabled people display psychological abnormalities , this is because they have been socialised into such traits as a result of the ways in which society meets , or fails to meet , our needs , and that the claim that such features are a consequence of impairment is itself an aspect of the oppression of disabled people since it misidentifies , and thus does nothing to overcome , the main source of psychological distress . |
| 4 | They 're sort of things to focus on points of focus within when you 're receiving Confirmation of the ways in which through Confirmation you can enhance the gifts which you already have and focus in on the power of the Holy Spirit through those gifts . |
| 5 | Dr Briarty 's experiment was a study of the ways in which gravity affects the growth , division and development of plant cells . |
| 6 | Functions of Language : a study of the ways in which language is used , and of some of the ways in which language functions have been classified . |
| 7 | The research incorporates a case study of the ways in which the overcapacity problem in the petrochemicals and plastics sector has been handled in Britain and West Germany , together with a consideration of what the role of the European Community could and should be in the handling of overcapacity problems . |
| 8 | Since architecture is one of the visual arts , the study of architecture is also a study of the ways in which the philosophical , religious and intellectual preoccupations of societies find expression in visual form . |
| 9 | The success of Theatre in Education — which brings professional actors to work with children in schools — is a particularly valuable demonstration of the ways in which pupils can learn through experience in their approach to plays . |
| 10 | A lively indication of the ways in which ivory could minister to the complex life-style of a young Egyptian ruler is provided by finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun who reigned during the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Apart from furnishing armlets and bracelets ivory was used for the handles of the king 's walking-stick , ostrich feather fan and whip . |
| 11 | These recommendations are some of the conclusions of a wide-ranging review of the ways in which dissatisfaction about solicitors ' charges is handled . |
| 12 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 13 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 14 | I remind her that , following President Yeltsin 's recent visit and the welcome changes in connection with what is a hugely large arsenal of nuclear weapons , the top priority of proliferation at present is to ensure that we take action in the ways that I described in my answer . |
| 15 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |
| 16 | However , despite the importance of the issue , there has been little empirical research on the ways in which decisions are currently made by the prison authorities or the implications of these decisions for the prison service . |
| 17 | It is suggested that there is scope here for further major research on the ways in which expenditure on support services affects the quality of the research produced . |
| 18 | Any assessment of the significance of the Glorious Revolution , therefore , must give due weight to the ways in which the tensions between the Church and Dissent interacted with the constitutional conflicts that shaped Restoration politics , and once we do this , the Revolution appears in a fundamentally different light . |
| 19 | In the immediate future , we will be issuing guidance on the ways in which the new-style HNCs and HNDs are to be reviewed — this guidance is necessary because some of the pilot courses and Batch 1 courses will soon reach the end of their period of validation . |
| 20 | It would be appropriate here simply to give a brief outline of events , and then limit any review to the ways in which it is relevant to John Howard and his cause . |
| 21 | For a while she behaved wisely or cunningly — by allowing her ministers to give formal recognition to the ways of the reformed church on condition that she herself was allowed to worship in the old way in the privacy of her own chapel at Holyrood . |
| 22 | " Goodbye , " said this kindly decent woman , her distress at the ways of this wicked world written all over her . |
| 23 | A key player so far as the passage of the bill is concerned will be the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee , Congressman Rostenkowski , and then in the upper house , Senator Benson . |
| 24 | by no means were all chairmen tyrants , but the opportunities were there and had made possible the emergence of uncontrollable ‘ powerhouse ’ figures such as Judge Howard Smith of Virginia , the chairman of the House Rules Committee , and Wilbur Mills of Arkansas , the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee . |
| 25 | However , Democrats in the House , led by the chairman of the Ways and Means committee , Dan Rostenkowski , drew up a plan to raise from 28 per cent to 33 per cent taxes on the most wealthy and to impose a 10 per cent surtax on incomes of more than $100,000 . |
| 26 | The compromise was largely negotiated by House minority leader Robert H. Michel ( Illinois ) , Dan Rostenkowski ( Illinois ) , the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee , Senate minority leader Robert Dole ( Kansas ) , Office of Management and Budget Director Richard G. Darman , and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady . |
| 27 | Such an event would represent the parting of the ways between Mr Gorbachev and the Slav masses , and would lead him almost inexorably down the road towards a full-scale assault on glasnost and civil liberties . |
| 28 | Leeds were again without their six-figure signing from Hull , Lee Crooks , and the Great Britain forward 's mysterious absences are likely to lead shortly to a parting of the ways . |
| 29 | By the eighteenth century there was a considerable parting of the ways since the more erudite mathematical treatises on perspective , such as those by Lambert and Monge , were of no use to the practising artist . |
| 30 | For Pitt , it was a sad parting of the ways , and he describes his final meeting with David and Tony DeFries . |