Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , if part of the equity were given in this way , it would immediately be subject to Schedule E income tax in the hands of the individuals — Sch30 , para 19 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 2 | Almost all garden glasshouses were treated in this way . |
| 3 | They were treated in this way because birds might be able to acquire the skill simply by coming across an already opened milk bottle . |
| 4 | All requests for ‘ ordinary ’ books , where the time of submission had been recorded — a total of 3966 applications — were treated in this way . |
| 5 | Hardingstone had 22 male and no female shoemakers in 1841 but twenty years later 83 males and 43 females were occupied in this way . |
| 6 | All passengers were carried in this way , whether royalty or ordinary mortals . |
| 7 | Altogether , 109 persons were interviewed in this way — a relatively high number for an urban sociolinguistic survey . |
| 8 | were written in this way , because erm there was a move from a certain part of the organization to exclude the Q Ss from elements of work on an unreasonable to an unreasonable extent . |
| 9 | Five of the seven ethnic groups that were relocated in this way were rehabilitated and partially repatriated to their native territories in 1956–7 . |
| 10 | We found that many of the school practices were interpreted in this way and an expression of the general basis of this contemptuous type of offence is found in the following comment . |
| 11 | A number of major reports were produced in this way ( see Chapter 3 ) , but no CACE has been constituted since 1967 , and later government reports have been issued by committees set up to consider particular issues . |
| 12 | Morgan et al observed significant improvements in antenatal care throughout pregnancy when computer generated protocols were used in this way . |
| 13 | It may be that causewayed enclosures and henges of the Neolithic period were used in this way , and current ideas about hillforts suggest that they should also be viewed in this light . |
| 14 | During 1976 some 200 were sold in this way and pressure was being brought to bear on the company founders to manufacture the completed product . |
| 15 | The general idea of selecting communities which were interrelated in this way on the dimensions of status and ethnicity was to ‘ match-up ’ linguistic data from the four areas , so as to obtain some fairly detailed information on the linguistic strategies which Belfast people employed as they moved from urban vernacular to slightly higher-status speech patterns . |
| 16 | Throughout the realm the burdens of government which were borne in this way were substantial . |
| 17 | Codeine phosphates , which can be administered to spontaneously breathing infants , may also cause respiratory depression , although it is a much safer choice in this group of infants : Purcell-Jones et al ( 1987 ) found that only two out of 28 babies receiving codeine were affected in this way . |
| 18 | This was a vexed issue amongst solicitors who were affected in this way ; although it was interesting that the committee of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group concluded that ‘ a levy based on an equal proportion of the payment ‘ was ’ unavoidable ’ . |
| 19 | Some seven army corps formations were identified in this way : the First in the north , the Second in the centre and the Third , Fourth , Sixth and Seventh in variously designated tracts of the southern sector of the front . |
| 20 | Thus two of the individual contributions which tile children were asked to make or able to make were put in this way : |
| 21 | Even very much more recently rabbit populations were encouraged in this way , for I recall being involved in work of this kind at Alfreton park , Derbyshire , in 1934 — this because the sportsmen of that time and locality wanted to bolt and shoot rabbits for sport . |
| 22 | In 1904 – 06 particularly , and again after an interval in 1913 , considerable sums were dispensed in this way , sometimes through distinctly shady intermediaries . |
| 23 | At least 300 Muslims were butchered in this way ; an equal number of Christians probably met the same fate . |
| 24 | It is likely that a good many valuable stones were destroyed in this way because Pliny was muddling up hardness and toughness . |
| 25 | Whereas in 1986 , 25.6% of acquisitions were funded in this way , the figure for 1988 was 69.7% , and in 1989 around 80% of merger funding was in cash . |
| 26 | In 1990 , eight hundred badgers were killed in this way , many of those were TB free , but by the time that was discovered the badgers were already dead . |
| 27 | To leave these tracks was to risk death by drowning , and in the course of the subsequent fighting on several occasions both men and pack animals were lost in this way . ’ |
| 28 | The liturgical silver and the fourteenth-century Relic of the Passion from San Giacomo dell'Orio , together with the 5,000 relics housed in the church of San Tomà were lost in this way , as were the altar and other church furnishings from San Giovanni Evangelista . |
| 29 | Substantial sections of the three workforces were covered in this way . |
| 30 | Figures 16.2 and 22.12 were obtained in this way . |