Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | What beckons me forward is a faith in God 's Hand in history , the conviction that He means these lands to speak to the world with an answer , and the decision to support in any way I can those — black , brown and white — in whose lives I see God 's power working . |
| 2 | He was executed in 1535 , the first of seven Chancellors of the university to suffer in this way , and canonised in 1935 . |
| 3 | Your concern about the ability of commodity exporters to adjust in this way is understandable . |
| 4 | ‘ Our intention to ballot in this way was already known , but we hoped to get the assurances we wanted from British Rail . |
| 5 | Macleod-Clark ( 1988 ) maintains , however , that even in current basic nursing programmes , students are not given adequate preparation to function in this way . |
| 6 | On the basis of my professional acquaintance with some of the workers involved in the Kent and later Darlington projects , I can say that this appeared to be the result , and that there were real incentives for the workers to work in this way . |
| 7 | Failure to conform in this way are adjudged by the journal 's reviewers to provide evidence of a scholarly inadequacy which is taken to reflect a personal lack of taste and tact . |
| 8 | However , there is no need to deal in this way with an argument that , if raised , would not receive a moment 's serious consideration from the court . |
| 9 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 10 | In many environments , the need to advertise in this way is limited by the danger of becoming a conspicuous target for a predator . |
| 11 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |
| 12 | It is not to be taken seriously — of course , electrons do not " choose " — but it is somehow irresistible for physicists to talk in this way , at least informally when they are not writing grave papers for their colleagues . |
| 13 | There would be fewer people to cope with that way , and she was n't young any longer . |
| 14 | Many of these management activities would occur automatically in best-practice private companies , spurred on by managers adopting broad views of their briefs , although it is not always clear what motivates the manager to behave in this way — perhaps the operation of the managerial labour market ? |
| 15 | There were arguments about procedure because he was the first Masai from the area to die in this way . |
| 16 | He returned to the chateau , furious with himself that he could have allowed people to live in this way . |
| 17 | It is even less so in the social sciences where there is a dearth of sufficiently well-worked-out theories to test in this way . |
| 18 | Who gave you authority to act in this way ? |
| 19 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 20 | The designer can program the computer to respond in any way to a chosen input stimulus . |
| 21 | The most basic error , which I attempted to pinpoint in discussing the sense in which the cries , hoots , and gestures of animals are ‘ primitive forms ’ of language in Chapter 5 , is to confuse the predictive value of the effects of such behaviour with the conscious intent of a speaker to communicate in some way . |
| 22 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 23 | It is contemptible for a Government to behave in that way about an important and constituent part of the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 25 | Thus there is no incentive for the government to cheat on this way of conducting monetary policy — that is , to follow a different policy from the one that is announced-for it can fool people without cheating . |
| 26 | For Japan to react in this way at this time was not in itself culpable . |
| 27 | Sands died soon after his election , and was one of ten strikers to die in this way ( Beresford , 1987 ; Collins , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | It is the ability of love to transform in this way that , in Tillich 's view , distinguishes it from the Buddhist concept of compassion . |
| 29 | The Bishop of Chester proposed an amendment which still condemned lesbian and gay sex but put no obligation on bishops to punish in any way people who took part in it . |
| 30 | Not allowing children to suffer in any way : if one parent is the primary sufferer the inter-parental relationship can possibly be restored after the primary sufferer is in recovery . |