Example sentences of "[det] [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 These admit various ways of accommodating the sacred to the profane ; i.e. behaving more or less like a rational economic man .
3 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 .
4 Well it depends on the people who are producing or directing or whatever , so it 's all got different ways of doing it .
5 Well it depends on the people who are producing or directing or whatever , so it 's all got different ways of doing it .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 All go different way .
9 When two or more creatures that are unrelated all evolve similar ways of coping with a particular circumstance , this is called convergent evolution .
10 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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