Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has developed in two ways . |
| 2 | Methods of contraception and details of the menstrual cycle — whether it has altered in any way , how regular it is — will be asked , and also details of the symptoms , if any , that prompted attendance . |
| 3 | Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 . |
| 4 | It needs to evolve in several ways to meet these needs . |
| 5 | Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones . |
| 6 | Deviation from the primitive venational type has occurred in two ways , by reduction and addition . |
| 7 | This has occurred in two ways . |
| 8 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 9 | Most , most criminals do n't want to get caught but there are the odd exceptions who are a bit idiotic er but we erm they 're very rare and usually high on drugs on something like that , but we 're just your ordinary sort of down and out type criminal who wants to break in some way . |
| 10 | Rosemary Radford Ruether has worked in this way within Catholicism and the American ‘ Woman-church ’ movement . |
| 11 | Andy Warren does n't have a door key , he has to get in another way . |
| 12 | Since having been accepted by YWAM God has confirmed in many ways the correctness of Gary 's decision . |
| 13 | Almost every Council meeting has debated in some way how the profession can face the economic realities of the 1990s while remaining constant to the need to serve law and justice . |
| 14 | The situation has improved in many ways , but it is not easy to overcome the problems created by natural obstacles and compounded by the legacy of centuries of neglect . |
| 15 | This it intends to do in two ways . |
| 16 | The best clue to the source of the error is that software tends to fail in logical ways . |
| 17 | But the second degree expressed outwardly in giving up the world with a heart wholly centred on Christ , seems to correspond in some ways to both the insuperable and inseparable stages of The Form and like them gives way to a third stage when the contemplative sees into heaven and is filled with the joy Rolle expresses as song : " prayers turnes intil joyful sange , and thoghtes to melody " ( 69.284 – 5 ) . |
| 18 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 19 | But perhaps we are not very far from finding such proof , if the stratigraphical record of the Moon or Mars proves to parallel in any way that of Earth . |
| 20 | " God does move in strange ways sometimes , I have to admit . |
| 21 | But it does happen in that way . |
| 22 | Yeah it does happen in that way |
| 23 | Finally , and this is a suggestion on my own , although actually I discovered afterwards it was also made by somebody else , erm but it does seem in many ways er erm an obvious interpretation , is this could be the background also to post-natal depression . |
| 24 | The mental stance the rational person seeks to organize in this way includes both beliefs and attitudes . |
| 25 | Oh right , you mean it 's broken in more ways than we previously thought . |
| 26 | The Selby approach seems to me to be er look at the land that is allocated which amounts to approximately a hundred hectares in the district and discount a great deal of it because it 's constrained in some way or another , and I 'll come back to those constraints later . |
| 27 | Perhaps the regrettable feature of the conversion of Shawell school — which is being carried out with great care and sensitivity — is the retention of the 1950s flat-roofed WCs extension which , almost gratuitously , fails to relate in any way to the form of the original building . |
| 28 | And next door to him , number five they 're an elderly couple erm and they 've got one of their sons living there at erm he 's disabled in some way but I 'm not quite sure how . |
| 29 | Well it 's usually because the heart itself is getting either old or tired or it 's damaged in one way . |
| 30 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |