Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 Bureaucratic control binds individuals through incentives and disincentives to behave in predictable ways .
2 Little general guidance ( or comfort ) can be given in respect of the interpretation of words spelt in unfamiliar ways or the basis of phonetics .
3 During these years the economies of all four nations evolved in different ways from the comparative chaos of entrepreneurial capitalism to the more advanced stage of organized capitalism .
4 The above recordings differ in various ways : the first two are reissues from the '70s ; the third is a new recording .
5 If schools respond in different ways to the requirement for guidance , special information and sometimes special effort which attends higher education entry as against guidance for entry into vocational education and training , is this because there are two cultures ?
6 Different sorts of supporters reacted in different ways .
7 Nevertheless the two apparently identical complexes behave in different ways .
8 Not every noun has a plural form , but , because such words behave in other ways like words which do form plurals , they are admitted into the noun class , eg advice — it is impossible to say *advices , but it is accepted into the noun class .
9 What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences .
10 During the two-hundred-year period from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth-centuries plague swept Europe , different countries reacting in different ways .
11 What we think of as elementary particles are really these little loops vibrating in different ways .
12 They can not have done this only by dividing the language into neat areas , for the areas interact in complex ways in which the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts .
13 The reasons for doing so were various , but prominent among them was that quality chess seemed to demand the ability to devise a plan and stick to it when circumstances changed in unpredictable ways .
14 WHO are more preposterous : the developers marching round southern England drawing up plans to turn some of the world 's most pleasing countryside into toytown suburbs ; or the nouveau-rural Volvo commuters looking for trendy ways to stop them ?
15 Thus the inversion maxima and minima along this central axis may be a reflection of a number of separate basement blocks responding in different ways to the stresses created by the inversion drive mechanism ( a combination of compression and strike-slip movement ) .
16 If one can demonstrate clear relationships between specific patterns of impairment and specific models of normal processing , then , one can use the patterns of impairment as evidence for or against the models , and one can use the models to explain how the patterns of impairment come about — why patients with language disorders behave in certain ways and not in other ways .
17 I would also be interested to hear ideas relating to effective ways in which these aspects might be appropriately measured .
18 These have proved a boon to many occasional users of complex applications , and by making different applications function in similar ways can considerably reduce re-training time .
19 If , as a result , a particular chemical substance is concentrated at particular places , it may induce the cells in those places to differentiate in particular ways , just as the presence of galactose in the medium can induce bacterial cells to produce proteins they would not otherwise make .
20 Nonetheless , understanding what caused things to happen ( causation ) and why individuals acted in particular ways ( motives ) is one of your most fundamental tasks .
21 This is not a startlingly high number but , bearing in mind that each probably supports a family , some 5,000 to 10,000 may well depend on the income from garbage picking The pickers operate in different ways .
22 Between these two extremes are many shades of grey with responsibilities split in various ways between SSDs and the police .
23 ‘ Animals and plants live in different ways , ’ the computer said .
24 Do individual social workers work in different ways in teams of different organizational types ?
25 Individuals learn in different ways .
26 The interesting question when it comes to human behaviour is how much to attribute to inheritance , both in the form of instincts and in predispositions to behave in certain ways , and how much to learning .
27 In terms of occupations , at least three-quarters of the tonnage was owned by merchants , mariners or persons connected in other ways with shipping .
28 Humans have no instincts , that is genetically programmed directives to behave in particular ways .
29 In seeking to contribute to this research agenda we need to address a number of issues which emerge both from this earlier literature and from some initial observation in a number of social work teams organized in differing ways .
30 This is a very central issue for any sociology of the global system in so far as it makes the difference between a dismal chronicle of inevitability , which is absolutely not my intention , and an attempt to illuminate what is happening by a theory of what makes it happen and , by implication , what could make other things happen in other ways .
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