Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 These admit various ways of accommodating the sacred to the profane ; i.e. behaving more or less like a rational economic man .
2 Courses which substitute female content for male content in the curriculum , but which continue to fragment subjects , which reflect the same criteria about what counts as excellence , and which construct language and theories which are obscure and elitist , all echo patriarchal ways of learning .
3 Changes in the entry of calcium ions , or the phosphorylation of membrane constituents , or the activation of NMDA receptors , all seem plausible ways of bringing about a temporary change in the electrical properties of a cell , but what makes the change persist — what puts the L into LTP — should be the important question , if LTP is really to serve as a model for long-term memory .
4 All go different way .
5 When two or more creatures that are unrelated all evolve similar ways of coping with a particular circumstance , this is called convergent evolution .
6 Nor does it help if your party 's leaders ( mainly state premiers ) , parliamentary deputies and grass-roots bodies all pull different ways on issues like immigration , the use of force abroad and social-spending cuts .
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