Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 2 | Many mothers have difficulty in interpreting the demands of their baby and tend to feed rather than play or comfort in other ways . |
| 3 | Profits were available for landowners who were willing to develop the land by opening coal-mines , building factories , or developing in other ways . |
| 4 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 5 | Governments , rightly , find it difficult to be overtly discriminatory , or to specialise in idiosyncratic ways . |
| 6 | It is true that , as the term is commonly used , a representative , as opposed to a delegate , is not mandated to speak or vote in particular ways ; but it has always been a puzzle to me to understand in what ways such a person can then be said to represent , or speak for , those who sent him/her there . |
| 7 | These included soya products , dried haricot beans , baked beans , dried eggs which were very popular and tinned pressed meats of vague origins branded Spam , Prem and Tang somebody 's grinning there , do you remember those which could be eaten cold or cooked in various ways . |
| 8 | For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound . |
| 9 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 10 | Do vowel and consonant sounds pattern or cluster in particular ways ? |
| 11 | Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth . |
| 12 | These buds become enlarged and folded or invaginated in various ways , sometimes forming pocket.like sacs , or peripodial cavities ( Fig. 32 ) , from the bottom of which the thickened portion of the bud ultimately becomes evaginated . |
| 13 | Most families tolerate and encourage the release of conflict whereby irritators are released through crying or yelling or confronting in other ways . |
| 14 | Un-learning is more difficult than learning — because we become habituated to thinking or feeling in certain ways over time . |
| 15 | The following two tables and chart , although calculated in different ways , are all based upon the idea of socio-economic grouping . |
| 16 | Franchising is growing fast — and an increasing number of companies are expected to franchise their operations in the years ahead rather than expand in traditional ways . |
| 17 | Oral communications , being face-to-face and immediate , are more limited than those in literate cultures , where meaning can be held and validated in impersonal ways . |
| 18 | There are certain areas of the body which can initiate movement patterns , if they are held and moved in certain ways , taking into account the effect of gravity on them . |
| 19 | The interior surface of the vault was covered and decorated in various ways : by stucco , marble or stone facing , by mosaic or by paintings on the plain stucco . |
| 20 | I think this single gimmick was enough to provide the detection element wile Ghote 's investigations among the more likely looking suspects enabled me , with diversions , to tell my story and to reflect in various ways on lines drawn and wedges advanced . |
| 21 | Short segments of DNA can now be excised from the cells of one organism and transferred in various ways to those of another . |
| 22 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 23 | Elderly people are marginalised , disadvantaged , and abused in countless ways . |
| 24 | This comparison was made more difficult by the existence of two organisations with a number of disparate functions , each using similar information but stored and utilised in different ways . |
| 25 | The image of woman has been moulded and portrayed in numerous ways by men , this series of paintings and drawings explores a fantasy in which women in the home are engaged in a bizarre recreation of themselves and their men , using all of women 's traditional ‘ homemade ’ handicraft skills . |
| 26 | The Fiend is an elemental entity of Evil from the Warp , which can be magically bound and commanded in various ways by powerful Evil wizards . |
| 27 | They are run by separate trustees and staff and compete in various ways . |
| 28 | Official statistics are gathered and recorded in different ways between one country and another . |
| 29 | Browne administered the Tanganyika Masai through Swahili-speaking Masai agents whom he brought down from Kenya and deployed in ineffable ways . |
| 30 | The second and third points were taken up by him and expressed in different ways in his pronouncements on political and economic issues . |