Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 2 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 3 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 4 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 5 | When all the data is entered on to the computer , it can then be sorted in numerous ways which would be too time-consuming using manual methods . |
| 6 | The effect is that matters disclosed in this way may not later be the subject of warranty claims . |
| 7 | They indicate that marking schemes may be designed in different ways : ( a ) written before pupil responses have been seen ; or derived after a sample of answers has been seen , and constructed so as to reflect the strength and weaknesses of candidates ' performance ( often combined with the first point ) . |
| 8 | Every village school in Eritrea is designed in this way so as to prevent detection from the air by the MIGs and Antanov bombers of the Ethiopian air force . |
| 9 | This has been especially evident in Peru and Chile , where goals have been fought for and won in this way . |
| 10 | It can be approached in two ways . |
| 11 | This exercise can be approached in two ways . |
| 12 | Slains may be approached in two ways : comfortably by means of a long quiet climbing lane from the trees on the edge of Cruden , or more adventurously , once alighted from the bus on the upper road , between stone walls , along that wide lane of sticky brown clay , perilously full of holes . |
| 13 | The pathogenesis of alcoholic pancreatitis can be approached in two ways : ( i ) by studying factors influencing the individual susceptibility to the disease or ( ii ) by studying constant effects of ethanol on the pancreas . |
| 14 | Despite the stated belief in the Proposals that students at school should be exposed to a historic range of English writing , there is little attention to works written before the nineteenth century , and certainly no recognition that new relations with history are causing literary texts to be approached in new ways . |
| 15 | The topic is approached in this way because scant academic attention has been paid to insider dealing in the corporate context ; furthermore , it is within this context that the Chinese Wall mechanism operates ; and finally , new rules have recently been promulgated by the SIB covering the misuse of inside information in the financial conglomerate context . |
| 16 | There is no known species of plant that is not attacked in one way or another by them . |
| 17 | Is it in order that a new Member of Parliament who has not yet made his maiden speech should be attacked in this way by the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ? |
| 18 | H B F's assessment that there are about thirty one thousand dwellings already committed in one way or another in the system . |
| 19 | There 's I think it 's approximately twenty six hectares identified , erm most of which is committed in one way or another . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , we 're not … committed in any way . ’ |
| 21 | Even in the case of married applicants for joint mortgages , the Equal Opportunities Commission ( EOC ) found that 36 per cent of building societies in their study discriminated in some way against a couple with a higher earning wife ( EOC , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | At the empirical level culture and nature can not be discriminated in this way . |
| 23 | There is now a considerable market value attaching to an accurate up-to-date and selective address list , and some of the largest collections of data in the private sector , running to thirty million entries or more in some cases , are amassed in this way . |
| 24 | Table 1.5 gives the figures for full-time , part-time and total degree enrolments in 11 subject groups between 1979–80 and 1986–87 , excluding the Open University where degree courses can not be grouped in this way because of the structure of foundation plus optional courses ( Open University 1989 ) . |
| 25 | As regards new and wide-ranging orientations in Church life-our vaguest category — we will note six , while recognizing that these might well be grouped in different ways . |
| 26 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 27 | Animals live in populations that are dispersed in characteristic ways in the environment , ways that can usually be interpreted as a function of the behaviour of individual members operating as strategies for survival and reproduction . |
| 28 | Companies dispersed in this way will tend to use local firms more than they do today , reinforcing a trend towards small-scale enterprises . |
| 29 | Fleshy fruits , including figs are taken and over 100 species are known to be dispersed in this way . |
| 30 | Turning to the mammals , Jarman 's ( 1974 ) study of antelopes describes five types of foraging strategy differing in their selectivity of plant species and parts and the utilization of food items dispersed in different ways . |