Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 A horse that persists in trying to buck us off may have its self-esteem developed in the wrong way !
2 It is a bleak and somewhat chilly world which Eliot has constructed , an effect emphasized by the dispassionate way in which human emotion and human suffering are described .
3 St Valentine , incidentally , was a Roman priest martyred on the Flaminian Way during Claudius 's time .
4 Circumferential wall tension increased in a linear way .
5 Rectal wall tension increased in a linear way with increasing distension pressures ( Fig 6 ) , whereas rectal compliance decreased in a non-linear way with increasing distension pressure .
6 In particular we shall show that there is good reason to distinguish ritual aggressive action , made up of elements of symbolic or metonymic violence , from physical violence directed in an aggressive way towards another human being .
7 He wondered if it was because a woman 's mind worked in a different way to a man 's or whether Blanche simply thought too much .
8 Use the scatter dice to determine the direction moved in the same way as for Goblin Fanatics .
9 Use the Scatter dice to establish the direction moved in the same way as for Goblin Fanatics .
10 As he varied the position of the food source , the dance varied in a predictable way .
11 White-haired and with make-up applied in the haphazard way that suggests no great interest in the face rather than a weakening of the critical faculties , Louise was still very much in charge of herself — her appearance , thought and manner .
12 One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers .
13 Fred 's story concerned a lineside hut used by the permanent way men otherwise known as platelayers and/or lengthmen .
14 Work was suspended in February , following the withdrawal of Gulf Oil , but design work recommenced in June and construction work restarted in a limited way , in September .
15 Cuvier 's system was open-ended because he considered each species to be a variation of the underlying type adapted to a particular way of life .
16 ‘ This boy behaved in an underhand way , setting up situations so that he would n't get into trouble , but David would when he had left .
17 They say that once having used miscue analysis , they internalise its approach , and never listen to a child read in the same way again .
18 These are placed on top of a complete pudding basin cake made in the normal way .
19 All regiments are assumed to include a leader equipped in the same way as his men and with identical characteristics .
20 All units are assumed to include a leader equipped in the same way as his troops and with identical characteristics .
21 All regiments are assumed to include a leader equipped in the same way as his men and with identical characteristics .
22 Then the Seattle-based group hit on a sure-fire way of making the big time .
23 Though subject to shared procedures , each member of the advisory team worked in a different way , modifying formal responsibility in the light of individual personality and experience .
24 Fig. 6.24 superposes the deterioration of access frequency loaded 90/10 files as a result of loading additional records in random order , on to an 80/20 file loaded in the same way .
25 The hotel and its newly dug garden are protected from the winds and passing cows by a handsome new stone wall made in the old way — using the enormous smooth round boulders that litter the fields as if a giant 's child had grown bored with a game of marbles .
26 BR managers resisted probing by ministry officials of why a particular service operated in a particular way .
27 In fact , four of the factory presets using the harmoniser behaved in a similar way .
28 The constant narrowing down , redefinition and drawing of ever more refined distinctions lead to a position where the argument has no general significance at all : Greek society , defined in a particular way , represents the advantages of a form of literacy defined in the same way .
29 The King waved in a desultory way .
30 Some requesting States may only accept evidence taken in a particular way and the Convention tries to ensure that a request for a special procedure ( for example , for verbatim transcripts or , on the other hand , for a summary of the evidence in deposition form ; or for video-taped evidence ) will not be refused merely because it is inconvenient to the requested State .
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