Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's hardly fair I should be required to go on in this way .
2 Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient .
3 The wilfulness of human nature can be deceitful , and we can hang on to old ways like cherished thoughts or possessions .
4 The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome .
5 Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression .
6 It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form .
7 But suddenly , the major preoccupation of the cosmetic industry is to come up with original ways of making it easier for you to choose and use the right products .
8 Is it not shameful that Britain should opt out in that way ?
9 Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . "
10 Maybe it was because they thought it was dangerous to stand out in any way from the crowd , in case fate was tempted to drop a crate on their heads .
11 The reason it 's come out in this way is that you had the debate on the er original proposals for this extra money which did n't go as was recommended er and you made a decision on that and then later in the agenda , and I ca n't find the , the exact point now but you had a discussion and a suggestion was made and agreed that if there was any money left over investigations should be made and that the surveyor should give erm consideration Madam Chairman to using any of that , perhaps for a camera , and that was agreed , and it is noted somewhere , and that 's what Mr has done .
12 Despite being picked out in this way there were still failures and difficulties .
13 ‘ There 's a need for a national investigation into why these figures seem to come out in this way , not just within Strathclyde , but within Britain , ’ he said .
14 Erm I still have to come back in some ways Patrick to er this this no car situation .
15 Statistical analysis of incremental hormone responses after test stimuli was carried out by two way analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) , with substance and site as the two factors .
16 This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence .
17 We have not yet concluded whether that work should be in the form suggested by Mr. Robert McNamara or be carried out in other ways .
18 Next year two-thirds of all motorway maintenance work will be carried out in this way .
19 Because the transaction was carried out in this way , the loser was Derbyshire 's pension fund .
20 Sarella felt her cheeks begin to burn , as if caught out in some way .
21 If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed .
22 Civil War conditions lingered on in other ways .
23 This means that the cellular mechanisms of , say , remembering a telephone number and remembering how to drive a car would n't differ — it would just be that different cells , connected up in different ways with other parts of the brain , are involved .
24 On that unhappy note she fell asleep , but the next time she awoke — to the clamouring of her alarm clock — she woke up in more ways than one .
25 The husband is also , of course , the victim of this ruse , but in none of the Italian versions is he built up in any way to provide a substantial target figure .
26 The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block .
27 In Latin America , relationships are built up in this way not just for personal support but , also , to promote commercial and political ends .
28 Political power can be built up in this way , with the result that many Latin American leaders owe their position to a network of clientelist relationships .
29 It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way .
30 A rich and powerful language is built up in this way .
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