Example sentences of "in ways [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Usage also varied , in ways one would expect , during each day .
2 In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor 's notes ( Menary , 1986 ) by the explanation : ‘ This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past ’ ( p. 3 ) .
3 We will give the new authorities greater responsibilities — for example , over education , health , and planning — and freedom to ensure the delivery of services in ways they think best .
4 Agents often have authority to bind their principals in ways they should not , they can act wrongly in the exercise of their authority without forfeiting it .
5 However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal .
6 The very concept of pedagogy ( whether defined as art or science ) presupposes invention and intervention which will direct learners in ways they would not , left to their own devices , have the opportunity or inclination to pursue .
7 If the bulk of the community are being criminally victimized in ways they do not understand or realize , surely that too is sufficient reason for prioritizing the study of corporate crime .
8 Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns .
9 While , theoretically , local authorities may spend their own incomes in ways they themselves choose , the government , in calculating local government grants , increasingly indicates how it expects the authorities to allocate funds between priorities .
10 Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed .
11 Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years .
12 I feel the media have a great responsibility to inform the public in ways they can understand , how great the challenge is becoming and the need to make changes before it is too late .
13 Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect .
14 Its atmosphere and suspense are nursed by locality — Petersburg — in ways which ca n't be escaped but which often get misreported .
15 Parties to CITES must give the secretariat the finances with which to do its job and not oblige it to raise its own funds in ways which lead to question and criticism . ’
16 But for Lawrence the two conflict and in ways which echo the psychoanalytic account of desire :
17 Production systems will have to be intensified in ways which do not deplete fertility ; areas which are now under-populated will have to be used more productively ; the organizations which serve small farmers , including relevant agricultural research institutes , will have to be strengthened ; and finally , agricultural prices will have to be maintained at a level which provides an incentive .
18 While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it .
19 In the first case aid has frequently freed government revenue for purposes very different to those the donors would support ( a new presidential palace , a larger army , a new capital city ) ; in the second case corruption has affected the allocation of contracts in ways which damage project execution .
20 To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture .
21 The Chancellor also took the opportunity to nuance his support for German reunification in ways which will reassure those fearful that precipitate moves to unification might unsettle the Soviet Union and threaten the improvement in East-West relations .
22 Even so , in countless places around Europe , people behave and think in ways which are totally distinctive .
23 The Council is , thanks to the SEA , more than ever the true ‘ Parliament ’ of the European Community in that it — rather than the Strasbourg assembly — passes the Community 's laws and does so , moreover , behind closed doors in ways which would not be tolerated in any individual national member state .
24 For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause .
25 The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas .
26 I am able to return to that blessed hump between the Severn and the Wye in ways which , in logic , Miller is prevented from enjoying .
27 They ignored the prior consultations , the use of friendship between secretariat officials and local chairmen which ensured that the business of government was carried on in ways which often responded to local needs .
28 The future provision for liberal adult education was to be shared in ways which broadly represented existing arrangements with most , though not all , financial costs being borne by grant-aid from the Ministry of Education and the LEAs .
29 Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place .
30 We will also maintain direct support for farming the Less Favoured Areas in ways which encourage good environmental practice .
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