Example sentences of "way [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 4 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 5 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 6 | These very different characters were both ‘ at risk ’ in different ways because of the society they and we live in and their vulnerability in different areas : However , both are less ‘ at risk ’ than many because they are growing up loved and taught , ie given information rather than left ignorant and because there is some explanation of faith — relationship with God . |
| 7 | The latter was exceptional in many ways because of its large-scale employment of women rather than men in the jute mills . |
| 8 | To some extent this is because secularist attitudes have invaded RE , as they have influenced the thinking of many religious people in general , often in unsuspected ways because of the level of secularist indoctrination in our society . |
| 9 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 10 | Monomers are the raw material of polymers and there are several ways in which a monomer is polymerized , that is , joined end-to-end as in linear polymers or in multidimensional ways as in three-dimensional polymers or thermosets . |
| 11 | The overall effect of the distortions to both the income statement and balance sheet is to give firm A a return on assets of 16.67 per cent and firm B a return on assets of 9.09 per cent even though both firms are identical in every way except for the inventory valuation method used . |
| 12 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |
| 13 | Yet her homecoming and remaining at home would have to be justified , and there was no other immediate way except by assuming the direction of the household . |
| 14 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 15 | Nearly all lawyers in local government are solicitors , and it is better to qualify this way than at the Bar . |
| 16 | So I would prefer them to be assessed in that way than to post them off , and I 'm glad we 've got that choice … |
| 17 | But Scorsese 's film owes more to Luis Bunuel 's quizzical The Milky Way than to the lavish Hollywood epics of the past . |
| 18 | SpreadBase enables users to work with the records in a more flexible way than with traditional or ‘ multi-dimensional ’ spreadsheets . |
| 19 | However , even outer clothing must have required fastening and such wear would also have arisen if they were worn on undergarments in such a way as to come into contact with the inner face of the coarse outer garments ; such extreme wear is perhaps more likely to have occurred in this way than on the outside . |
| 20 | I wonder if more people in the world are still heating their water in this way than on some sort of stove . |
| 21 | As for the winter , I 've never skied any other way than on one of the Ski Whizz/Small World Chalet parties . |
| 22 | In reality not , but until you go through very violent experiences in your own life , you ca n't understand this man on the cross in any other way than as an abstract figure . |
| 23 | In all three cases , it seems hard to conceive helping in any other way than as doing part of the activity denoted by the infinitive oneself . |
| 24 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
| 25 | They thus obtain status and other ‘ psychological ’ benefits at the shareholders ' expense , and increase their rewards from office in a more tax-efficient way than through regular remuneration . |
| 26 | But you can not sense radiation in any other way than by measuring it with a sensitive instrument . |
| 27 | Whatever changes may occur , it is for you , the buyer or seller , to protect your interests , and there is no better way than by carrying out your own survey , whether you have a professional/mortgage survey or not . |
| 28 | .. requires consultation with the redundant employee so that the employer may find out whether the needs of the business can be met in some other way than by dismissal and , if not , what other steps the employer can take to ameliorate the blow to the employee . |
| 29 | It had become , as it were , welded into one thick compact mass , nearly as hard as wood , and which it was impossible to separate , unrole , or divide in any other way than by cutting … |
| 30 | At every stage , therefore , members of the hierarchy were involved in the process of deposing an anointed king : some were coerced by understandable fear ; others , as events unfolded , reluctantly despaired of a peaceful resolution of the conflict any other way than by deposition ; and a few were eager promoters of Isabella 's plans . |