Example sentences of "be [num] [prep] [art] ways " in BNC.

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1 In the hospitals , for example , a Minister of Health who is trying to do his duty must aim at increasing the corporate sense , morale and public esteem of the service , because he knows that this will be one of the ways of raising standards .
2 In fact when LEAs increase the amount of inspection work they are required to carry out , this could well be one of the ways in which they are able to help schools move forward .
3 You said earlier running water might be one of the ways of the alternative methods of making electricity .
4 it may be one of the ways th that
5 In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms .
6 Increasing the range and diversity of role models children meet in mathematical textbooks and building on the knowledge they have already acquired are two of the ways we can contribute to building the self-esteem shown in many Government reports to be crucial for success .
7 These include cortisol ( which rises later in the night as the body prepares for waking and is strongly influenced by the body clock ) ; antidiuretic hormone ( which is one of the ways in which fluid formation by the kidney is reduced at night , see Chapter 6 ) ; and the male sex hormone , testosterone , as well as some of the hormones that control the reproductive cycle in women .
8 This is one of the ways in which we are inferior to the so-called ‘ lower ’ forms of animal life .
9 This is one of the ways in which this new method differs from diets of the past .
10 It is one of the ways in which we are unlike people . ’
11 For some parents , spoiling their child is one of the ways they can express relief at having someone to care for .
12 The main objective in changing the standard is to increase the effectiveness of audit reporting , which is one of the ways of closing the expectations gap between the auditors and users of financial statements .
13 Symbolic representation refers to the category of language and is one of the ways that a knowing subject , the ‘ I ’ , is constituted .
14 Crime , like boxing , is one of the ways working-class boys get their feet under tables otherwise forbidden to them .
15 Staphylococci have some degree of resistance to killing by phagocytes and yo you should recall that phagocytes er , one of the mechanisms by which phagocytes kill intercellular organisms is the production of reactive oxygen intermediates and catalase is one of the ways that these can detoxified and th there 's fairly good evidence that the catalase enzyme enables er , staph orius to persist .
16 Such episodes may , of course , be confused as passing acknowledgements , but the readiness to exchange such signals is one of the ways in which we register the normality of the passing scene and it is when we encounter consistent anomalies in the broadcast that we begin to suspect and perhaps report something odd .
17 In so doing they begin the process of explaining a phenomenon , reducing it to intelligibility ; of course , that process entails a closing of options , a setting of limits to reality , since understanding is one of the ways in which we control and circumscribe our environment .
18 Fertility control is one of the ways in which a woman may achieve her hopes .
19 The eucharist , too , is one of the ways in which the Spirit gives us assurance .
20 It is one of the ways in which the Spirit evokes prayer in the people of the Messiah .
21 It is one of the ways in which we ensure that , so far as possible , people are better off in work than out of work .
22 A school cleaner married to a doctor is in Social Class I and a school cleaner married to a labourer is in Social Class V. A social classification system is one of the ways in which we can see how successful a society is in educating and sustaining the healthy life of its members .
23 Students may take a wide variety of subjects both from within and outwith the faculty this is one of the ways in which options can be kept open .
24 It is one of the ways in which we can hope to find out why he was killed . ’
25 Yes good , cos everything that we do has to be very careful recorded and taking the photographs and doing the the drawings and sketches that 's one of the ways of recording .
26 That 's one of the ways , certainly .
27 Chaucer 's pilgrims travelled only a short distance from London to Canterbury , but to embark on a pilgrimage was one of the ways in which an ordinary citizen of the Middle Ages could travel abroad .
28 To go past the School and over the railway bridge was one of the ways of going shopping in West End Lane .
29 It was one of the ways he showed his generation .
30 It was one of the ways by which a more equal society can be created . ’
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