Example sentences of "way [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] be " in BNC.

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1 Speaking of the aims of Christian Aid , he illustrated ways in which something could be done , by describing our Sale and saying ‘ If I 'm proud of anything , I 'm proud of that ’ .
2 This latter publication lists , by county , important archives ( and suggests ways in which they may be used ) .
3 Finally , Sources for English Local History by W.B. Stephens ( Cambridge 1981 ) is a quite indispensable guide , for not only does it refer to archives and collections , but suggests ways in which they may be used , and does so by major subject categories : population and social structure ; local government and politics ; poor relief ; charities , prices and wages ; industry , trade and communications ; agriculture ; education ; religion ; and houses , housing and health .
4 ‘ What was needed was a new look at the problems and the ways in which they might be solved , both in the UK and elsewhere .
5 Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes .
6 By the end of the war the Colonial Office was accustomed to thinking synoptically about Africa , to weighing with unaccustomed confidence and delusive clarity the large forces at work there and the ways in which they might be accommodated within a system of administration .
7 Our notions of who constitutes the academic community , the freedoms at stake , and the ways in which they might be protected , all develop over time .
8 Pointes can and do have an enormous part to play in classical ballet because there are so many ways in which they can be used to give character and variety to a role .
9 As the young runner 's confidence grows in this way the coach 's job is to fuel the novice 's dreams by suggesting practical ways in which they can be achieved .
10 Because food additives are so important in hyperkinetic syndrome , you need to be aware of other ways in which they can be consumed .
11 Pressed flowers make marvellous decorations for stationery products , and there are a great many ways in which they can be used .
12 There are many words and phrases which can be put into this category in English , and many different ways in which they can be classified .
13 4 Talk about the two stories — are there any ways in which they can be made even better ?
14 There may be several such peaks , and there are several ways in which they can be produced .
15 John Mason in Tensions vividly describes some of the ( necessarily ) conflicting forces on teachers and suggests ways in which they can be seen as productive .
16 It is these syntactic relationships and the ways in which they can be handled which are primarily responsible for the distinction between pre-coordinate and post coordinate indexing systems — approaches which will be considered in Chapter 17 .
17 This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed .
18 If they are tied into a working farm , or if there are legal agreements that constrain the ways in which they can be used , clearly that will be a material factor in determining whether the properties have a market value and what it is .
19 The concrete 's spalling , the reinforcement is being attacked and we 've looked at various ways in which they can be repaired or replaced .
20 Most of all , they give us a unique insight into the quality of family relationships in later life , and the variety of ways in which they could be constructed .
21 It is felt that by doing this the planning department can gain a better understanding of the information needed by the business units , their concerns and possible ways in which they could be assisted .
22 In a study by Mayes into various measures of testing the readability of guides , he found that guides were jargon-filled , unappealing etc and suggested many ways in which they could be made more readable .
23 From the experience of voluntary bodies and of the different local authority departments concerned , much was learned about the difficulties of families and of the ways in which they could be helped .
24 The session — which featured detailed contributions from Blackwell Retail 's academic development manager Roger Bowen , and Pitman Publishing 's sales and marketing director Rod Bristow — examined the recent changes in the British education system and suggested ways in which they could be exploited to generate more sales .
25 I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ?
26 So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact .
27 Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise .
28 BEING THRIFTY Some of the ways in which you can be thrifty with food will be covered in the next chapter and energy management discussed in Chapter 3 , should make a significant difference to your heating bills in the winter .
29 Here are some practical ways in which you can be active .
30 Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ .
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