Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | While such mentalistic constructions may sound implausible at first sight , they are justified in three ways . |
| 2 | We are the only country anywhere , east or west , where lesbians and gay men are criminalised in this way . |
| 3 | Polyester fibres are treated in various ways to produce fillings which can trap a great deal of air . |
| 4 | We can not have a fair society , we can not have equality , West Belfast can not be working when the women of West Belfast are treated in that way — and when the women do stand up and fight and say ‘ we are not going to put up with this any more ’ , what happens is they then become threatened by the privatisation of their jobs . |
| 5 | However , it is not only the ‘ moral ’ as opposed to ‘ natural ’ qualities that are treated in this way . |
| 6 | This case raises concerns about the accuracy of audit data when patients are treated in this way . |
| 7 | Both intention and dishonesty are questions for the jury , but are treated in different ways . |
| 8 | Here , attention was drawn to the dominance of a sub-culture of child abuse expertise into which many professionals working in the field are socialised in different ways . |
| 9 | Choreographers wishing to interpret music in dance terms are limited in several ways because their choice should not only determine the style of dance used and its phrasing but other factors which are an integral part of the score . |
| 10 | The upper and lower grids are arranged in four ways : ( 1 ) Direct grid : The two grids have similar form and scale , matching node to node . |
| 11 | Other words such as tacking , beating , heaving to are explained in this way . |
| 12 | Japanese has two suffixes , -wa and -ga , the functions of which are explained in different ways by different linguists but which are said to mark , among other things , topic and non-topic respectively . |
| 13 | School monitors are distinguished in many ways , the most obvious being the vermilion gown ; they may also grow a moustache . |
| 14 | In OED and the Supplement homonyms are distinguished in two ways : |
| 15 | Individuals are coerced in two ways : as taxpayers forced to pay for wasteful services and as consumers denied any choice over the level or type of services they wish to consume . |
| 16 | Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa . |
| 17 | In solutions , which are stabilized in this way by secondary bonding , the LCST usually appears below the boiling temperature of the solvent but it has been found experimentally that an LCST can be detected in non-polar systems when these are examined at temperatures approaching the critical temperature of the solvent . |
| 18 | For most people their tears are distorted in some way or another , often confused and strangled , not flowing freely . |
| 19 | There is now a considerable market value attaching to an accurate up-to-date and selective address list , and some of the largest collections of data in the private sector , running to thirty million entries or more in some cases , are amassed in this way . |
| 20 | Some of Labov 's New York City variables are of this broader type , and the larger number used by Trudgill ( 1974 ) are mixed in this way : some of them ( such as [ h ] -dropping and ( ing ) ) are common to many varieties , whereas others have social meaning only , or mainly , for Norwich and Norfolk speakers . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) Sensory Setae — Very frequently the setae of certain parts of the body , particularly the appendages , are modified in special ways and become sensory in function . |
| 22 | Animals live in populations that are dispersed in characteristic ways in the environment , ways that can usually be interpreted as a function of the behaviour of individual members operating as strategies for survival and reproduction . |
| 23 | Ford estimates that in academic libraries as much as one-third of all items used are found by discovery at the shelf , and in public libraries about half the books borrowed are located in this way . |
| 24 | They go on to say that large firms ‘ are constrained in some way [ in making these decisions ] by the requirement to make profits and serve consumers ’ , but it is nevertheless appropriate to stress that companies will usually have options about how to manage the impact of changed market conditions or technology : the company is not merely a passive instrument of the market . |
| 25 | You can link object with drawn lines that are constrained in some way or other . |
| 26 | The overall gall stone recurrence rates , independent of treatment , are considered in three ways based on different diagnostic techniques : ( i ) according to the trial criteria ( mainly oral cholecystectography — see above ) ; ( ii ) ultrasonagraphy alone ; and ( iii ) either method . |
| 27 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 28 | Browsing through the thesaurus allows the user to move between ideas and concepts , on the one hand , and individual terms — either as an alphabetical list , or as separate records in which all the terms that are related in any way are displayed , along with the scope notes . |
| 29 | It has been considered that the simultaneous presence of ultradian and daily rhythms suggests that they are related in some way and possibly all come from the same body clock . |
| 30 | We could say that an animal is a group of things which are related in some way . |