Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.

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1 It is good advice for there is no substitute for the sort of general information that can be gathered in this way .
2 Exotics may appear to compete better with indigenous vegetation in Britain : possibly the success of sycamore can be seen in this way .
3 This can be done in any way you please , but once the order is chosen , it stays fixed .
4 Not all streets can be treated in this way , if only because some traffic-generating land uses , sited within the area , would raise vehicle flows above acceptable levels for designation as rest and play streets .
5 Clear deep well waters can be treated in this way , but .
6 Fortunately , it has been demonstrated that most non-polar polymers can be treated in this way and results agree well with direct measurements of .
7 ‘ I 'm appalled that a blind person can be treated in this way and want to raise money to buy a guide dog .
8 Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully .
9 Motivation can be increased in another way — by introducing credits for library instruction courses .
10 Although it is not clear that subjective risk can be biased in this way theories of driving which stress a schematic or conceptual representation of the environment ( e.g. Dubois , 1991 ; Fleury , Mazet & Dubois , 1988 ; Groeger , 1988 , 1989 ; Riemersma , 1988 ) might suggest that biases in the perception of the environment would indirectly lead to biases in subjective risk , either because risk is an important aspect of such schemata or because subjective risk would result from the inconsistency between the environment and pre-existing schemata .
11 ‘ In our judgment , bearing in mind Viscount Dilhorne 's warning in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Humphrys [ 1977 ] A.C. 1 , 26 , that this power to stop a prosecution should only be used ‘ in most exceptional circumstances , ’ … the effect of these cases can be summarised in this way .
12 Virtually any dried foods can be prepared in this way at very little cost and this has been found to be more than adequate to get the fry .
13 While very thin sheets can be prepared in this way , they are fragile , non-uniform in thickness , and tedious and time-consuming to prepare .
14 We can now contemplate that the relevant cc-e connection , when we suppose that cc caused e , can be stated in this way : If cc occurred , then even if x had occurred , e would still have occurred .
15 For instance , there is no exploration of whether gender identity can be constructed in this way or what told these people that they were not the ’ right ’ sex .
16 The only other sounds which can be extended in this way are nasals , laterals and /r/ .
17 Many of the more readily available forms of medication treat the symptom and , of course , much short-term relief can be obtained in this way .
18 We have seen that solving LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) yields efficient solutions and we can ask if all efficient solutions can be obtained in this way .
19 Access to quite large areas can be obtained in this way and negotiations may be held with estate officers used to legal agreements .
20 Different sorts of trait can be affected in this way .
21 And as depressed parents can have a deleterious effect on their children 's behaviour and vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance ( Rutter , 1966 ) , the number of people who can be affected in some way by the disorder is substantial and marks it out as one of the most important psychiatric conditions .
22 In such a case it may well be advisable to draw up the contract to cover stages that can be defined in this way and make contracts for succeeding stages conditional upon achieving agreed criteria of success for prior stages .
23 Polymer dimensions can be calculated in this way if an assumption is made about the best model .
24 While general training serves to socialize the dog within the home and the community , there may be deviations from the usual pattern which can be rectified in this way .
25 Petrographic methods have provided some indications because the grain-size of the white marble from some quarries is very distinctive , but not all quarries can be distinguished in this way .
26 At sites where a number of periods of occupation overlie one another , the archaeologist has to identify and record very large numbers of what are referred to as contexts — divisions of the excavated material that can be distinguished in some way from their neighbours .
27 Though many poltergeist influences can be explained in this way , what of those which happen in empty , uninhabited properties ?
28 Many aspects of adult cat behaviour can be explained in this way , the relics of kittenhood remaining with our pets until they are old and senile .
29 A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way .
30 He says that the maximum weight of casting that can be made in this way is about 6 kg .
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