Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say , you wanted find out something and you , you 've got ta one , one 's got ta give so much weight away to something well gallop me galloping them in extraordinary ways to find out whether he 's any good or not . |
| 2 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 3 | One intuitively powerful argument , for instance , is that since animals regularly face problems and solve them in sensible ways , they must have some intellectual grasp of the problem . |
| 4 | The teacher 's function is to decide what these chains are to be and to take steps to establish them as permanent ways of responding . |
| 5 | There is indeed a skill of craftsmanship in applying technology ; knowing just how far to go in programming the machine and what to do by hand ; selecting from the materials and technologies and applying them in different ways ; deciding exactly what one should attempt to achieve through technology . |
| 6 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |
| 7 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 8 | ‘ You can translate it in various ways . |
| 9 | When it has grown strong and healthy , you can display it in various ways . |
| 10 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 11 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 12 | To feed them in dainty ways |
| 13 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 14 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 15 | She had a wonderful sense of period and could adapt an idea brilliantly but her lack of formal design training handicapped her in other ways . |
| 16 | Wittgenstein says that in addition to interpreting ( = treating , applying ) the figure in different ways , we can also see it in different ways : now as one thing , now as another . |
| 17 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 18 | Nearly all of these are modern chemicals we have thoughtlessly introduced into our cats ' environment to help us in various ways . |
| 19 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 20 | Rod Hale and Grant Parrott both sustained injuries which incapacitated them in various ways . |
| 21 | Different types of barrows and trucks lead children to use them in various ways . |
| 22 | And the tension seemed to have affected her in other ways , too . |
| 23 | ‘ Type L ’ isoleucine in the living organism and ‘ type D ’ isoleucine in the dead organism have almost the same chemical characters , but when they are hit by light they deflect it in different ways . |
| 24 | The advice on page 11 , number 6 , is helpful : most people devise mnemonics which help them to remember particular words by saying them in special ways . |
| 25 | But it is a problem for feminists if dictionaries include sexist definitions and examples , if they refuse to include feminist terms or define them in contentious ways . |
| 26 | Perhaps a Labour government would have spent even more : it would certainly have spent it in different ways . |
| 27 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 28 | I I 'm not sure that we 've had a very helpful description of what sustainable means , erm I suspect people use it in different ways and ther there is no er er common usage established of what it means here , there is no dictionary definition . |
| 29 | It is worth noting , however , that consent to a political authority entails a promise to obey it ( as well as perhaps an obligation to support it in other ways ) . |
| 30 | A third approach is evident in cases which accept in principle extensive review for error of law which flows from Anisminic and O'Reilly , but which then qualify it in varying ways . |