Example sentences of "way [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both theories entail a shift of attention away from considerations of origin or cause to those of function or effect ; neither is as much interested in the ways in which language reflects reality , as in the ways in which it shapes our perception of things ; both attach central importance to the concepts of system and difference . |
| 2 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 3 | It stated : ‘ Although the voluntary system , as we have shown , was once the chief form of collective action outside the Poor Law , it can now best be seen in terms of the ways in which it complements , supplements , extends and influences the informal and statutory systems ’ ( p. 26 ) . |
| 4 | Social Policy 1 evaluates different explanations of the growth of the welfare state and conflicting accounts of the ways in which it functions , and then examines issues and arguments which arise in two areas in which controversy is rife ; namely poverty and disease . |
| 5 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 6 | Here we shall be looking rather more closely at changes within the state system itself , considering ways in which it has been restructured or , perhaps more accurately , was restructuring itself , in response to crisis . |
| 7 | By investigating the ways in which it has been used to explain particular phenomena , I shall aim to provide a more detailed account of absolute holism , as I shall call it , and of the mode of explanation it embodies . |
| 8 | Change in the garden is inevitable — but some of the ways in which it reveals itself are a great deal more interesting than others . |
| 9 | The spiritual plane is for all the great religions inseparable from the physical and psychological ways in which it manifests itself and becomes known by us , but yet it is truly distinguishable . |
| 10 | Of particular importance in explaining the disclosure practices of such companies are the industry a company operates in , its size , profitability , extent of overseas operations and the ways in which it raises finance . |
| 11 | erm He apparently is adopting the position of a scientific naturalist , and yet all the ways in which he talks about nature are ways which personify it . |
| 12 | Discuss one or two poems by Tennyson which illustrate the ways in which he expresses emotion . |
| 13 | Discuss one or two poems by Tennyson which illustrate the ways in which he expresses emotion . |
| 14 | List of the ways in which he has altered me . |
| 15 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 16 | The requirements of each learner are different , and the ways in which she learns best also differ . |
| 17 | There can be no doubt that Linda Nochlin has played an important role in making feminist interests and priorities visible ; this collection shows some of the ways in which she has brought these issues to the surface over the last twenty years . |
| 18 | Her materials consist of marble dust , gypsum cement , resins and rhoplex , but the ways in which she works with them are based on a kind of body language , using gestures that are related to her subject matter . |
| 19 | May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend both on her statement this afternoon and on all the ways in which she works for the British interest both in Europe and elsewhere in the world ? |
| 20 | Determined to make a go of things , Nikki is not letting financial constraints get in the way of what she believes is the best long-term course of action for the kids . |
| 21 | In the third and highest phase of development the child understands the way in which she differs from and is interdependent with the outside world , and once again feels ‘ at home ’ in the world . |
| 22 | The way in which she copes is a real test of her understanding . |
| 23 | The only way in which she has made any reference to what happened during the night has been in the form of two pictures . |
| 24 | Sussex teachers thank Marjorie especially for the way in which she has always helped and stood by them , from their years of training onwards . |
| 25 | Gittins 's work is useful not only because of the way in which she highlights gender , but also because her empirical data broaden out from the household and show that women at least have , under certain circumstances in the past , been involved in the use of kin relations to maximize resources across households . |
| 26 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 27 | I think for the male student who is subject to sexual harassment , or who gets the sort of inappropriate approaches that Marianne is talking about , that is unusual , it 's out of step with the way in which he perceives himself , and his sense of what he is and who he is in the world . |
| 28 | Also the way in which he decides whether MD should die is very flippant . |
| 29 | The way in which he helps will be best discovered by looking at the text , not by speculating about the meaning of the term . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend is wrong — if he does not mind my saying so — in the way in which he phrases his question . |