Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [prep] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this has been done in ways which least disturb the traditional division of labour between men and women within the family . |
| 2 | To some extent then the ‘ conceptual map of our subject ’ has been altered in ways beyond our control . |
| 3 | How much money has been received by way of those orders from the seventh directive of the European Community 's shipbuilding intervention fund , and how much of that money will be used to purchase from United Kingdom manufacturers the goods and services required for the vessels ? |
| 4 | The track has been used as a walkway since the closure of the line and this use has been regularised by way of purchase by the local authorities . |
| 5 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 6 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 7 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |
| 8 | When the arrears are payable , the presumption is that they are to be paid provided there are surplus assets available , whether or not these represent accumulated profits which might have been distributed by way of dividend , but that they are payable only to the date of the commencement of the winding up . |
| 9 | The maypole committee , of which Amos was president , had been looking for ways of raising funds for the May weekend and old folks ' treat ( of which more later ) , the most important weekend in the lives of the villagers . |
| 10 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 11 | ‘ From the information submitted by the United Kingdom , the Commission is of the opinion that little had been done by way of systematic work on the problem of lead in drinking water in Scotland between the adoption of the Directive and 20 July 1985 . |
| 12 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 13 | ‘ The tenant here died after the date of the order for recovery of possession against him but before the expiration of the last of a series of extensions which had been made by way of postponement of the date on which the order was to be complied with . |
| 14 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 15 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 16 | So tidy minds in the West have been thinking of ways to keep the process under control . |
| 17 | The ways in which intonation does this are very complex , and many suggestions have been made for ways of isolating different functions . |
| 18 | Since the publication in 1982 of the Barclay Report , Social Workers : Their Role and Tasks , many social services departments in the UK have been searching for ways of putting into practice ideas about community-based social work . |
| 19 | Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector . |
| 20 | Scientists at the ARC 's institute for research on animal diseases , near Newbury , have been working on ways of reducing the risk of spreading diseases with slurry . |
| 21 | The state apparatus is subject to scrutiny and investigation by joint party-state control committees responsible for rooting out inefficiency , red tape , departmentalism , localism , embezzlement and corruption ; and for checking that governrnent funds have been used in ways intended by government policy . |
| 22 | Two proposals have been offered by way of comfort should this be the outcome . |
| 23 | Erm you have in front of you er background material that 's been submitted by way of statement and erm a half a day of discussion today plus plus this evening . |