Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I prod and pry in all the little nooks and crannies — but it is all done in a caring way . ’
2 Subscribing is done in a similar way to books , through representatives/freelance agents and , increasingly , direct marketing and telesales , selling from colour catalogues and perhaps sample covers with contents illustrations .
3 The seeking of business success is far too difficult and serious a matter to be done in a cosy way .
4 We started everything from scratch , which is nice , because people get so stuck in their ways : you walk into a professional studio and things are always done in a certain way .
5 Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader .
6 Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't
7 A child 's education may consist largely of the mastery of traditional skills to be done in a traditional way .
8 A very small percentage of our business is done in a traditional way . ’
9 At this the lowest level , what is done is done in a compliant way .
10 This may be done in a rigid way , as in setting or streaming , where allocation to a different group occurs infrequently , as in Example E. By contrast , there may be flexible groupings for particular activities within the classroom .
11 It is hoped that discussion of the problems faced by attempted suicide patients and the factors which should be kept in mind during their assessment will have left the reader in no doubt as to the crucial nature of the assessment procedure for such patients and the need for it to be done in a careful way by staff who have been appropriately trained .
12 Working with carers and helpers can be done in a task-centred way , helping to partialise the difficulties and problems they may be facing , to find a solution bit by bit .
13 It 's important that the calculation is done in a particular way , that it is managed and owned by the department .
14 I 'm sure they 'll hasten to say , not reduced , just done in a different way , but shall I ask
15 Done in a sympathetic way , a loft conversion can blend in almost anywhere .
16 She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way .
17 Things could have been done in an underhand way , but I insisted that Hibs ask for permission to speak to me .
18 The conveying need not , indeed should not , be done in an authoritarian way .
19 The opening of the European Community telecommunications markets needs to be controlled , otherwise manufacturers could suffer , Georges Paricard , chairman of French telecommunications industry body SIT , told the lobby 's annual conference — if deregulation was done in an uncontrolled way , telephone operators would be reluctant to invest for the long term , leaving equipment makers deprived of orders .
20 This was done in the following ways : ( a ) By extending the concept of legal right .
21 Selecting from the menu can be done in the usual way , by moving the highlight bar with the arrow keys ( or mouse ) and then pressing the ENTER key to make your selection .
22 For he does not allow that there can be someone who genuinely asks himself what he should do in a moral way , but whose answer is in terms of what is only one of various logically coherent moralities .
23 The vitriolic anonymous letter he despatched to The Bell in the summer of 1858 had much less to do with the half-hearted way in which the government was handling the question of emancipation than with the way in which the regime proposed to run the empire after emancipation had been achieved .
24 that we have to do in a certain way , in a certain format and certain things have got to be included and we 've got to take that in hand as well .
25 Making landed property the security for a loan — ‘ mortgaging ’ it — was what Sir Giles Overreach was hoping to do in A New Way to Pay Old Debts , as seen ; but it was a much older ploy than that .
26 Any books on the Alexander Method co-ordinate thinking and doing in a creative way .
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