Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer to this impasse lies in a third way of knowing , one which is based on presuppositions . |
| 2 | A dramatised story of the operations of an imaginary business , which covers in a realistic way most aspects of business . |
| 3 | Figure 7.1 illustrates in a general way the likely sequence of contributing factors , and the two most promising points of intervention . |
| 4 | A more modest role model is offered in Suzy ( Chapman , 1982 ) which illustrates in a simple way some of the practicalities of coping with poor sight in day-to-day situations on the ways that friends can help . |
| 5 | This passage illustrates in a vivid way the fact that the arrangements the judges have made with the Inns are merely the machinery through which the judges perform what remains a judicial duty , and also how decisions on rights of audience are different from decisions on call to the Bar . |
| 6 | The third looks at a different way of providing collective security , and centres on friendly societies bidding for the social security work the Government intends handing over to agencies , or hospitals opting for trust status within the NHS . |
| 7 | It complements in a modest way the safety programmes and the ‘ safeguards ’ monitoring carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency from its headquarters in Vienna . |
| 8 | John Smith has sought to present Labour 's tax increases as a fair way to redistribute money from rich to poor . |
| 9 | ‘ … offers a new , refreshing approach to productivity : why it is important , and how to manage and measure it … deals in a stimulating way with such productivity programmes as action learning , quality circles , inter-firm comparisons , and business clinics . |
| 10 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 11 | If the person never saw the figure otherwise than as he does now , to say that he interprets what he sees in a certain way may be taken — because of ( 1 ) above — to imply that all seeing involves ( a ) the immediate awareness of something uninterpreted and ( b ) the interpretation of it in the light of past experience . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , George Eliot shared in the Victorian enthusiasm for Dutch interior painting , which dwells in a similar way upon the potency of objects , eliciting from the contemplation of such things the expression of useful lives ( Fig. 81 ) , almost in the manner of medieval Flemish painters for whom such details are invariably symbolic of spiritual states . |
| 13 | Here the reward or payoff acts in a negative way and is a form of punishment . |
| 14 | It expresses one 's readiness to have a certain attitude to the person named by ‘ you ’ if he acts in a certain way , and in a broad sense this readiness is itself an attitude . |
| 15 | This is a subject which affects many people in this city and is another characteristic act by a Tory Government that acts in a callous way . |
| 16 | This leads to a simple way of stating the amount of distortion : as the ratio of harmonics to fundamental . |
| 17 | what does that mean ? division by zero sounds like a good way out here . |
| 18 | It sounds like a long way ? |
| 19 | However , state support varies in a complex way according to the age of the elderly person , the extent of his or her-disability , the type of household lived in , and the informal support available . |
| 20 | But no general account of methodology can reasonably assume that the investigator is a native speaker or has native speaker-like intuitions , and for an outsider at least identification involves finding evidence that a linguistic unit varies in a systematic way between speakers , or between different speech styles of a single speaker . |
| 21 | An African praying mantis has even more spectacular eye-spots with an almost hypnotic spiral design that it employs in a similar way . |
| 22 | At times of stress , the body responds in a complex way ; two hormones are central to this response , cortisol and adrenalin . |
| 23 | One class , the X-cells , responds in a sustained way to effective stimuli but only when an edge is located in the correct part of the receptive field . |
| 24 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 25 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 26 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 27 | He plays in a definite way , dropping off scrums into a defensive pocket . |
| 28 | Somebody who has eh , er , a special type of attitude , you know , thinks in a particular way . |
| 29 | Traditionally , the pattern erm in the pattern goes in a particular way . |
| 30 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |