Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has systematic ways of dealing with apparently awkward cases and there is no hope of specifying neutral conditions for testing one against the other and thus deciding between them . |
| 2 | Recent research has demonstrated that even in deprived areas or in new overspill housing estates , it is possible to encourage cooperative ways , given some professional encouragement and support to grass-root demands . |
| 3 | Example 75 illustrates various ways of exploiting this kind of harmonic versatility : In ( a ) the accompaniment is in archaic-sounding fourths and fifths , giving a slight feeling of organum . |
| 4 | If , however , the council is serious about the need for reform it must be willing to find innovative ways of enforcing its recommendations . |
| 5 | It becomes possible to imagine other ways of living . |
| 6 | Resist the temptation to offer your ideas , instead continue to probe , dropping clues and helping the subordinate to see new ways forward . |
| 7 | These admit various ways of accommodating the sacred to the profane ; i.e. behaving more or less like a rational economic man . |
| 8 | This , it is hoped , will make it possible to devise new ways of understanding ‘ artisanal production , ’ 'pre-industrial society' and the place of ‘ popular culture ’ in the process of industrialisation . |
| 9 | And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking . |
| 10 | Well it depends on the people who are producing or directing or whatever , so it 's all got different ways of doing it . |
| 11 | Well it depends on the people who are producing or directing or whatever , so it 's all got different ways of doing it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All go different way . |
| 15 | When two or more creatures that are unrelated all evolve similar ways of coping with a particular circumstance , this is called convergent evolution . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet . |
| 18 | They are concerned to find new ways and means whereby individuals can be freed from existing constraints and afforded the possibility of individual growth and development through collective action . |
| 19 | More generally , it is quite difficult to find sensible ways of combining phrase searching with word searching . |
| 20 | and where necessary to find alternative ways of coping with the tasks of life . |
| 21 | figure 3.3 shows various ways of representing relationships . |
| 22 | Teachers ' responses to questions about gender suggest that they are aware of the issue and are , indeed , ready to consider possible ways forward . |