Example sentences of "way [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same product , the Sun , can thus be described in several different ways as a mass medium . |
| 2 | While he has his backers the nature of Mr Birt 's shake-up at the corporation , introducing distinctly Thatcherite market-forces into an organisation at least as set in its ways as the civil service , but many times more internally political , means there are many ready to use the episode to raise other questions against him . |
| 3 | You will pick up from these last remarks that I had decided that my basic marine aquarium should be devoted to fish only , a good choice in many ways for a basic system , especially for those inexperienced in marine aquaria keeping . |
| 4 | This cuts two ways for the evicted home-owner . |
| 5 | As he listened to the answers he learned more than he could have done in other ways about the existing culture of the former two separate schools . |
| 6 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 7 | As tough and warlike as Dara was civilized and courtly , he cloaked his ambition in a robe of holy simplicity , affecting the ways of a Muslim dervish . |
| 8 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |
| 9 | Within its peer group , the young child , by interacting with others and playing childhood games , learns to conform to the accepted ways of a social group and to appreciate the fact that social life is based on rules . |
| 10 | You said earlier running water might be one of the ways of the alternative methods of making electricity . |
| 11 | For a while she behaved wisely or cunningly — by allowing her ministers to give formal recognition to the ways of the reformed church on condition that she herself was allowed to worship in the old way in the privacy of her own chapel at Holyrood . |
| 12 | My interest in yoga and the ways of the great Buddhist teachers has helped me a little in this respect . |
| 13 | But there is no need to suppose that the ways of the Minoan traders were simple , straightforward , or even efficient . |
| 14 | Delight in the remarkably sophisticated ways of the Roman Centurion and Civilian who lived in Malton 's fort and vicus . |
| 15 | Under President Islam Karimov , the government seems intent on returning to the ways of the Soviet Union , or to even worse models in the country 's more distant past : the emirs of Bukhara , whose lands are now part of Uzbekistan , once maintained a minaret of death , from which prisoners were flung alive on market days . |
| 16 | There was also no lack of contacts , who , starved of literature , were exhilarated to be able to talk about Eliot : a Captain Richardson , whom I met in Eritrea , engaged to a charming Italian , proved one of those contacts whom the war brought together and separated , reminding me in some ways of the young Eliot and Jean Verdenal . |
| 17 | ‘ People are growing more realistic than they used to be ’ , Norster added , judging that the divisive ways of the recent past are being addressed . |
| 18 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
| 19 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 20 | A parody and a paradox : it is by their very inertia in the ways of the social laid out for them that the masses go beyond its logic and its limits , and destroy its whole edifice . |
| 21 | These financially successful people aped the social ways of the old gentry and aristocracy and the Grand Tour was an important pursuit of this class . |
| 22 | He had acutely put his finger upon the fact that the new tools of mass culture , television and radio , exposed the old ways of the royal household to a merciless stare from which they did not emerge well . |
| 23 | Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to . |
| 24 | Certainly it was n't likely to put a spark into the amateurish , bungling ways of the local police . |
| 25 | A popular television series , ‘ Yes , Minister ’ ( later ‘ Yes , Prime Minister ’ ) openly parodied the consensual , complacent ways of the permanent secretaries and under-secretaries . |
| 26 | Cash limits now cover directly some 60% of public expenditure and have been used in different ways throughout the public sector . |
| 27 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 28 | As well as showing how far flint was traded in prehistoric times in Britain , the analyses have shown that the largest proportion of the flint used to make axeheads was deliberately mined , in many ways like the hard rocks used for axes ( see page 106 ) . |
| 29 | [ See Fig. 3 ] The mighty Krakatoa eruption was compared in some ways with a Wagnerian opera . |
| 30 | Glynn Christian suggests new ways with a symbolic fruit |