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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 In addition to these behaviours , organizations have other ways of forcing and reinforcing relationships .
6 using illustrated cartoon sequences to show alternative ways of dealing with various child-rearing problems .
7 Norms defining acceptable ways for settling an argument or dispute usually exclude physical violence and manslaughter .
8 From October to December 1992 , careful research was conducted into best practice which included visits to other companies to show new ways of working .
9 Biologists envisaged various ways in which such altered escapees , with which the human gut and immune system would not be familiar , could cause trouble .
10 As banks explore new ways of pleasing customers ( eg , by offering telephone-banking services ) , it becomes ever harder to paint broad-brush pictures of physical capacity .
11 Mr Milburn plans to hold further meetings with club officials to explore other ways of preserving the ground 's future .
12 Thinking these days includes other ways of ‘ treating ’ Cystitis — by prevention , which will involve you actively looking at your lifestyle and seeing what you can do to help yourself ( pages 12–13 ) .
13 At British general elections , vote counts are reported at constituency level only , so that where a party gets its votes is largely unknown ( though party workers have efficient ways of estimating the geography of their support when acting as scrutineers at the count ) .
14 In general terms , within the particular situations , those structures provide economical ways of performing decision management ( initiating decisions and implementing them ) and decision control ( ratifying decisions and monitoring them ) .
15 This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period .
16 Though much attention has been focused on critical ‘ breakthroughs ’ in such areas as micro-electronics , biotechnology and new materials where the potential for creating dramatic changes is obvious , change can also be created in small steps as firms find new ways of upgrading efficiencies .
17 Although the instruction books that come with new machines recommend certain ways of setting such machines up , I have always liked to experiment across the range of possible settings .
18 The military and political pressures to find new ways of making tritium and the vast amounts of money involved were stimulating early in 1989 new ideas on how to make fusion — for tritium production .
19 Seen end on , their sharp , rocky summits point like arrows to the sky , while from the side they become narrow , crenellated ridges offering pleasant ways up to the tops , especially in winter .
20 The authority also says that advertisements offering easy ways to earn cash are ‘ gaining in audacity ’ as the recession deepens .
21 McGown , 56 , was arrested after a parliamentary select committee reported he had admitted to having ‘ undertaken experiments without following laid down procedures to discover new ways of managing pain ’ .
22 On Jan. 16 , 1990 , a US government delegation led by Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Robert M. Kimmitt opened talks with Pakistan political and military leaders to explore new ways of achieving a negotiated peace in Afghanistan 's civil war .
23 The two routes showing alternative ways of taking the power lines from Wilton to Picton .
24 Which is why I have always tried to insist that my players have proper ways of relaxing away from their work .
25 Changing times means changing ways , as control systems are introduced to cope with the increase in size .
26 The Commission recommends that parishes explore alternative ways of singing the Psalms .
27 Two rotors turning opposite ways can turn a ship on the spot .
28 But bees have other ways of communicating between one another .
29 Different societies have different ways of organising production , and this creates different kinds of classes .
30 Groups evolve expected ways to behave which their members must normally obey .
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