Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [adj] ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can translate it in various ways . |
| 2 | When it has grown strong and healthy , you can display it in various ways . |
| 3 | There are chemical systems which mimic it in some ways . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 8 | We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps a Labour government would have spent even more : it would certainly have spent it in different ways . |
| 11 | Yes , sweetheart , I feel it in several ways ; by contrast , for example , with my idyllic dreaming of two or three years ago ; there is a change . |
| 12 | It is an open economy in the technical sense that the ratios of both imports and exports to Gross Domestic product ( GDP ) have historically been high compared to other advanced industrial countries and in the broader sense that UK firms ' investments overseas are high , foreign firms ' ownership of UK enterprises is high , and the financial sector , the City , which is a major sector of the economy and dominates it in several ways , is essentially international in outlook . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They try it on all ways do n't they ? |
| 15 | Cos I thought if we round it off both ways |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 20 | Is it certain that if we divide it in alternative ways , and attach a value to the parts in each case , the sum will always be the same ? |
| 21 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |
| 22 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 23 | For example , no amount of arguing by itself will convince anyone of the truth of Genesis , 2 – 3 , but knowledge of the possibility of interpreting it in different ways — which include the symbolic — can help people to think again about an easy dismissal of it . |
| 24 | They all end up the same way but you do it by different ways . |
| 25 | The fluidity of much of the resulting ‘ data ’ is a real problem for archivists , as is the challenge of finding more powerful ways of categorising , labelling and storing it in structured ways . |
| 26 | The impact of technology is such that you can now do by electronic means a lot of things which were previously done by middle managers — collecting information , processing it , manipulating it in various ways : shunting it around the organisation . ’ |
| 27 | . We had it in all ways , shapes and forms . |
| 28 | The entry for ‘ home ’ , for example , defines it in several ways , including a sense few male lexicographers would ever consider : most women 's place of work . |
| 29 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 30 | The other crew members all felt the same and said it in different ways . |