Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The past few years have seen an unprecedented number of attempts to find new ways of training teachers , by reforming existing routes to Qualified Teachers Status and developing new ones . |
| 2 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 3 | The research methods suggest new ways of assessing important factors in urban development , and of exploiting one of the largest and least-used bodies of source material for European towns in general . |
| 4 | The authors propose two ways forward : they encourage a change in attitudes and they call for some specific legislative measures . |
| 5 | A lot of Scots came this way via the Northern Line from King 's Cross and they were giving their Scottish concert in the concourse when a heavy metal band arrived and told them roughly to move . |
| 6 | British gardeners have sent us hundreds of their most original gardening tips , and this month 's 50 cash prize winners describe cool ways to water baskets and a tidy way to store canes . |
| 7 | Their flat little heads swivelled this way and that , their eyes shining blue in the flaring light of the beacon . |
| 8 | No cars pass this way . |
| 9 | Old Cas. porters get that way . |
| 10 | In a book ( Tomkins , 1987 ) urging public-sector organizations to consider new ways of evaluating organization effectiveness ( not just efficiency ) , I suggest that the approach of Guba and Lincoln ( 1981 ) offers a very practical way of proceeding . |
| 11 | Yet they reckon it could set a bad example elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( Czechoslovakia ) as well as in bigger , more important places ( India and , when their worries turn that way , the Soviet Union ) . |
| 12 | Although we accept the Government 's recent concessions go some way to meeting the concerns expressed at second reading , we believe an additional amendment is crucial . |
| 13 | Where there are exceptions , it 's helpful to consider them not as different patterns , but as words : that is , the pattern of valley , alley , ( cf. ally ) should not be stressed , because there are very few words spelled that way . |
| 14 | The ea of dead and head is much less common than the normal ea as in eat or bead : but it needs attention because there are important words spelled that way . |
| 15 | Since a plucked hair regrows much more slowly and softly than a snipped hair , your legs stay that way for weeks and weeks . |
| 16 | In addition to these behaviours , organizations have other ways of forcing and reinforcing relationships . |
| 17 | Puppy parties work this way : someone organises a weekly gettogether for pups and owners . |
| 18 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 19 | using illustrated cartoon sequences to show alternative ways of dealing with various child-rearing problems . |
| 20 | ‘ If any of those Coventry supporters comes this way asking for petrol , ’ shouted Mick , ‘ I 'll tell 'em where to go . |
| 21 | ‘ My lord came down here from the town when he heard of these outlaws passing this way , but never a glimpse of them have we encountered since . |
| 22 | Norms defining acceptable ways for settling an argument or dispute usually exclude physical violence and manslaughter . |
| 23 | The idea that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held different sorts of posts goes some way toward a possible explanation of the obvious confusion concerning the facts of the Muftiliks of these two men . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , the simple Ben is also variously spelt as Beinn , Bheinn and Bienne , and Meal ( a hill ) also appears as Meall , Mheall , Meallan and Maolle ; furthermore , the vowels in the names bristle with accents sloping both ways . |
| 25 | Everything in his life had its place ; long-sleeved shirts to the left , short-sleeved to the right , belts hung this way , not that , this painting , this woman , this sock , each just so , and only he knew how . |
| 26 | The man lay perfectly straight — his feet pointing one way , his hands , over his head , pointing the opposite way . |
| 27 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 28 | On he 's , he 's instructions , on , do n't like that dam great bush being so near , he never has to stand at the kitchen sink and look out like I do this is where my , it 's funny whether the winds blowing this way or that way , |
| 29 | EVER wonder why our top supermarkets stay that way ? |
| 30 | His eyes opened unseeing and the whites showed blood-shot as the brown irises rolled one way and the other . |