Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't dish them out , or I 'll counteract them in a way you wo n't like . ’ |
| 3 | It is difficult to believe that , among the tumult in the cave , either mother or baby would be able to recognise one another 's voices , but bats are famous for their skill in disentangling the echoes of their high-frequency squeaks and using them as a way of navigating . |
| 4 | To solve a problem the student must recall the relevant concepts and rules and combine them in a way that satisfies the principles of good practice . |
| 5 | The map user can select features of interest from the digital map and display them in a way that is suited to his or her requirements . |
| 6 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 7 | That chilled me in a way I ca n't properly describe . |
| 8 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 9 | Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers . |
| 10 | But he drew back , and taking her hand , forced her to caress him in a way that revolted her . |
| 11 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 12 | It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend . |
| 13 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |
| 14 | A text , says Furman , quoting the French semiotician Roland Barthes , is a reading of a text : a reader , like a musician faced with a score , appropriates it in a way that is meaningful . |
| 15 | If that does n't work , look again at the word , and say it in a way that will remind you of how it is spelled : say Wed-nes-day ; clim-bed , and pronounce the bits separately ; but remember how the word really sounds . |
| 16 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 17 | Jews , on the other hand , used it as a way of referring to God . |
| 18 | ‘ The portacabin provided us with a way to offer them the best possible service under the circumstances . ’ |
| 19 | When we know how someone 's filter functions we are more effective at loving them in a way that they will perceive as love . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend knows that our policy on interest rates is to set them in a way that is compatible with our commitment to the pound 's band within the exchange rate mechanism and to bear down on inflation . |
| 21 | They started as self-defence systems , but more than 2,000 years of refinement have turned them into a way of life . |
| 22 | She could feel the hard muscles of his body pressing against her side , his arm sheltering her in a way that made her trust him . |
| 23 | Bare , a little shabby , sorely in need of a fresh coat of paint , yet the room excited her in a way she could never have explained . |
| 24 | They advised him of a way round the ‘ export licensing of strategic goods ’ — by describing the goods as harmless . |
| 25 | There was something about Rourke that stirred her in a way no other man had ever done … but , even so , a tiny voice of caution held her back . |
| 26 | Well I 've tried to explain to him , I 've actually sat down and said , You have got , and I 've done it in a way of , of sets . |
| 27 | Mosquitoes also use sound as a mating call , but they produce and receive it in a way that is all their own . |
| 28 | If you give me leave , I will do it in a way that would not dishonour your forebears . ’ |
| 29 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 30 | But you do n't seem to be advocating it as a way forward ? |