Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ? |
| 2 | But there may be other symptoms over the years , and if you marry and have children they may inherit in various ways . |
| 3 | If this route proves to be common to many animal viruses it might point to new ways in which viral infections could be attacked with drugs . |
| 4 | Lack of jurisdiction could arise in various ways , inter alia , absence of a condition precedent to the tribunal 's jurisdiction , irrelevancy , and asking the wrong question . |
| 5 | Anyone who feels they could not volunteer to sit with patients could assist in other ways . |
| 6 | Further understanding of serotonergic control of motility could lead to new ways to control diarrhoea in diseases such as the carcinoid syndrome . |
| 7 | The group 's philosophy is that computers should increase , rather than decrease , workers ' participation in industry , For example , large cooperatives could install a computer in canteens , on which workers could experiment with different ways of management , or discover various implications of increasing wages , for example . |
| 8 | This very wide discretion the judge may exercise in different ways in different cases or in different types of cases . |
| 9 | Motorists would benefit in other ways too , eg. the difficulty of overtaking a cyclist on narrow streets when something is coming from the opposite direction . |
| 10 | Their devotion to the group makes it less likely that they will think in creative ways that are tangential to , or radically different from , those of the group . |
| 11 | But the quality of people 's lives will improve in other ways . |
| 12 | I think it will emerge in different ways . |
| 13 | Instructions should be unambiguous , but in selling an ambiguous trigger may be used ( not in the sense of deceit ) because the salesman knows that different listeners will react in different ways . |
| 14 | Your donation will help in practical ways |
| 15 | I am innovative and can think of new ways of using old materials , such as making toys from everyday household items |
| 16 | Conventions can arise in other ways and authorities can do other things . |
| 17 | This shows that even a single symptom ( regularisation errors in reading aloud ) can arise in different ways in different patients . |
| 18 | ( a ) No contract A similar problem can arise in different ways . |
| 19 | Children who find it hard to write with paper and pencil can compose in alternative ways : difficulty in writing need be no barrier to poetry . |
| 20 | In the presence of malignancy it is known that different tissues can respond in different ways . |
| 21 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 22 | This can happen in certain ways : |
| 23 | SIR — Drug poisoning can happen in unexpected ways . |
| 24 | Both men can point to specific ways in which BNFL has helped their schools . |
| 25 | At second level the department offers a series of five half-courses , which students can combine in various ways to make up a full course . |
| 26 | Remember — you can help in other ways , too . |
| 27 | Firms can help in other ways too , such as by providing company housing for employees who are unable to find property in the new area before the date of their transfer . |