Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads Johnes to question whether raising academic standards for entry , in terms of A-level scores , could be justified as a satisfactory way of substantially reducing wastage rates , given the complex range of factors which are involved in predicting success in higher education , and that raising entry standards in this way would almost certainly bar students capable of obtaining a degree . |
| 2 | Teaching is regarded as a basic way of transmitting human culture , and is considered b ; y some to apply only to humans . |
| 3 | It could only be assimilated to it if ‘ I disapprove of prostitution ’ were treated as a tentative way of saying that prostitution is wrong , that is , as a tentative expression of an attitude against prostitution rather than as an expression of one 's awareness of one 's own disapproval of it . |
| 4 | When designed in a holistic way by the disabled person , the package of assistance which enables them to do so is no more expensive than the service-based alternative . |
| 5 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 6 | They , they may sort of be very submissive , B types , and therefore they can be stressed in a different way . |
| 7 | Video material that could be used in teacher training can be grouped in a similar way to material for teaching : |
| 8 | As he varied the position of the food source , the dance varied in a predictable way . |
| 9 | Each aspect of party and leader images varied in a different way , some more predictably than others . |
| 10 | Each aspect of leader and party images varied in a different way . |
| 11 | Capra ( 1979 ) , himself a physicist , has argued that most physicists , despite the discoveries of twentieth-century physics , are trapped in a pre-twentieth-century way of looking at the world . |
| 12 | Rosenthal documents cases where human subjects responded in a certain way because the experimenter had , unconsciously , communicated his expectation to them . |
| 13 | The headmaster responded in a similar way when asked if staff portrayed attitudes which are conducive for teaching in ‘ both a comprehensive and a multiracial school ’ . |
| 14 | We would often find out later that these conversations had been reported in a distorted way . |
| 15 | It is not that it has a design stamped on it , since once again it is not difficult to find other examples of metalwork decorated in a similar way . |
| 16 | Serratus also provides a novel sequence features database which can be queried in a similar way to the sequence data . |
| 17 | Mr Skubiszewski has said the problem of East Germans who come to Poland to seek transfer to West Germany should be resolved in a humanitarian way . |
| 18 | This is something he has carried in a big way into his later professional life . |
| 19 | Group agreed that this was one of its management functions , and that it is the appropriate body to make such decisions , since its membership ensures the Garden 's overall computing needs are considered in a balanced way . |
| 20 | Here , perhaps , green consumerism can try to get us to eat tuna that has been caught in a wildlife-friendly way ! |
| 21 | None the less , sales promotion was , in the early years of shortages , pursued in a restrained way . |
| 22 | Rational approaches are based on the assumption that organisations have clear objectives and resource allocation is organised in a systematic way to facilitate the achievement of those objectives . |
| 23 | However : ‘ In context , the absence of clear sentence boundaries does not mean that conversation is difficult to follow : it just shows that conversation is organised in a different way from writing ’ ( Leech et al. , p. 8/7 ) . |
| 24 | However , as feminists have consistently argued , potentially housework could be organised in a different way . |
| 25 | This is not to say that a series like Follow Me can not be used in the classroom , but it is organised in a different way from materials like Let's Watch or Video English which were made specifically for classroom use . |
| 26 | The hard economics of open systems are being addressed in a big way by Tandem Computers Inc , both in products and manufacturing . |
| 27 | I think the management thing can be addressed in a different way erm excuse me erm , oh I 've lost my thread now but , oh yeah that 's right |
| 28 | The New Zealander had kicked off two robbery attempts , catching one man in the face , before his trousers were finally slashed in a similar way to mine . |
| 29 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 30 | They also perceive a danger that their skills in recruiting volunteers will be seen as a cheap way of providing care . |