Example sentences of "ways [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat ironically , in view of the detailed , convoluted negotiations of the previous year , the constitutional agreement was not put to the test in the ways intended as the outbreak of war in September 1939 set aside the anticipated position irrevocably . |
| 2 | The low level option , because of the extra land requirement for the diversion of Baberton Mains Terrace , will affect the allotment area in various ways depending upon the scheme chosen . |
| 3 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 4 | People may tense their bodies in a variety of ways to cope with the threat of strong feelings , but then as it were forget to relax the muscles after the immediate threat has passed . |
| 5 | SPAR , as noted earlier , uses a modified version of Sidner 's focusing algorithm , which embodies both strong and weak preferences in ways appropriate for the examples discussed here . |
| 6 | Three aspects of teachers ' knowledge will be analysed : i ) knowledge of the subject being taught ; ii ) capacity to represent it in a variety of appropriate ways related to the knowledge and experience of the type of pupils to whom it was taught ; and iii ) knowledge and understanding of the relevant pedagogy . |
| 7 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 8 | Stress signals can manifest themselves in different ways according to the individual 's predisposition and personality . |
| 9 | This chart shows how a fact may be used in a variety of ways according to the historian 's purpose . |
| 10 | Applied to religion here are two statements which can be received in totally different ways according to the context . |
| 11 | Data are now disseminated from the ESRC Data Archive in a variety of ways according to the users ’ needs . |
| 12 | Simply … nine ways to help save the planet |
| 13 | Some patients who exhibit distress in ways interpreted by the nursing or medical staff as some kind of illness , mental or physical , are given drugs officially . |
| 14 | Despite Mrs Thatcher 's rhetoric , bribing people by way of tax allowances is the paternalistic state writ large ; taxpayers pick up considerable tax benefits on the condition that they spend their money in ways approved by the Government . |
| 15 | Well that 's what I thought it just seemed to say they were gon na have sort of cycle ways going through the green wedges along where I cycle already . |
| 16 | Historians can point to the philosophical views which underlay this ambition , and artists and sculptors were in various ways affected by the demonstration of its realisation in the theatre built for the composer at Bayreuth . |
| 17 | None the less , its economy had in some ways benefited from the diversification and protection from external competition which resulted from international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence by the white minority government in 1965 . |
| 18 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 19 | Thus unease over Soviet conduct in Eastern Europe and further afield did not immediately end Bevin 's search for ways to co-exist with the USSR despite a warning to Attlee on 10 April 1946 that , while he believed the Soviets preferred to expand without the risk of war , their policy might acquire a dynamic of its own , and result in an unintended conflict . |
| 20 | They are also working on ways to turn off the gas supply in men who produce too much of it and , as a result , suffer from priapism — painful and embarrassing erections in the absence of sexual desire . |
| 21 | In this way television sets standards for writing textbooks , editing newspapers — even for the most ‘ effective ’ ways to teach in the school classroom . |
| 22 | With this coherent team , in many ways bonded to the studio , Balcon set out to make films that mirrored what was happening to British society and fulfilled his aim of building up ‘ a native industry with its roots firmly planted in the soil of this country . ’ |
| 23 | The discussion among organised and informed disabled people has always focused on finding new ways to integrate into the mainstream community but on their own terms . |
| 24 | As Amsterdam is made up of a criss-crossed network of canals , one of the best ways to get around the city is by boat . |
| 25 | They may thus find ways to get round the controls . |
| 26 | Thus , the meaning of The cat sat on the mat is ‘ the ’ + ‘ cat ’ + ‘ sat ’ + ‘ on ’ + ‘ the ’ + ‘ mat ’ , combined in the ways signalled by the syntactic structure , which tells us , for instance , that ‘ on ’ goes with ‘ the mat ’ , rather than with ‘ the cat ’ , and so on . |
| 27 | Humphrey ( 1976 ) has argued convincingly that animals are in many ways over-equipped for the inanimate environment , but the environment provided by other animals ( particularly clever ones ) is especially complex , difficult to predict and difficult to control . |
| 28 | Apart from extending agriculture into lands which were not free , as they seemed , but part of an ancient patrimony , they hunted fur-bearing animals as well as birds and fish and in other ways competed with the existing population for scarce resources . |
| 29 | It focuses on the manager helping the individual to find ways to improve in the future . |
| 30 | In due course , when the transition is successfully achieved , these new ways return to the level of practical consciousness . |