Example sentences of "[noun sg] in ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working as a group , and supported by the teacher 's skilful questioning , the children together could extend and develop each other 's thinking in ways which a teacher with only one child could not . |
| 2 | The relaxation times for polymers depend upon the molecular weight in ways which are not yet fully understood ( for accounts of the Rouse , Zimm and de Gennes theories see Chap . |
| 3 | We sought to strengthen Welsh Office planning guidance in ways that encourage good design , prevent abuse and minimise the environmental impact of necessary development . |
| 4 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 5 | What production control did achieve was the combination of blue and white collar labour in ways that reflected the essence of enterprise unions . |
| 6 | However , thanks partly to the arrival of the sound film , this small measure was to change the nature of the British film industry in ways that could hardly have been foreseen by the legislators , and enable it to ‘ project England ’ more effectively than it had ever done before . |
| 7 | Certainly they are powerful examples of how meditations on the Passion were designed to work in inner experience and they illuminate aspects of the " form " of contemplative living in ways characteristic of Rolle . |
| 8 | Without bothering to close the door , Ludovico began to make long and passionate love to her , teaching her how to take and give pleasure in ways she had never dreamed of . |
| 9 | the possibility of combining different areas of study in ways not generally available elsewhere in the UK ; |
| 10 | Unconscious primary processes can affect action in ways which are beyond ordinary conscious control , as is seen in many forms of mental illness as well as in other actions of ‘ normal ’ people , such as occurs in dreaming . |
| 11 | Some patients who exhibit distress in ways interpreted by the nursing or medical staff as some kind of illness , mental or physical , are given drugs officially . |
| 12 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 13 | The latter have shown a conservative judiciary interpreting legislation and developing the common law in ways which government and Parliament sought to reverse . |
| 14 | They are not attempting to modify the existing law in ways which would help the prosecution . |
| 15 | A work such as Judith Weir 's A Night At The Chinese Opera ( 1987 ) plays with narrative continuity and frames of reference in ways that tie it much more closely to modern literary devices than to any musical antecedents ; Harrison Birtwhistle 's The Mask of Orpheus ( 1986 ) uses all the dramatic devices and timeshifts an opera can muster to tease out the contradictory bundle of myths around the Orpheus legend . |
| 16 | Suppose he notes that Elmer is likely to use the inheritance in ways that will benefit the community more than any use Goneril and Regan are likely to make of it . |
| 17 | This requires bravery — to go against the ‘ safety first ’ approach — but , paradoxically , it is possible under LMS , and working with the governing body , to structure schools and their management in ways very different from anything that would have been possible before . |
| 18 | In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement . |
| 19 | Drawing on our discussion of paragraph organisation in general , and opening paragraphs in particular ( pp. 92 – 4 ) , revise the passage in ways that present to best effect its main points . |
| 20 | He said ’ It is possible to reconstruct this damaged passage in ways which completely alter the meaning of other passages . |
| 21 | If you can provide help and assistance in ways which are beneficial to a customer or client , then you should always do so . |
| 22 | What we think of in simple terms as electricity is related to the creative forces in the universe in ways that we can not imagine . |
| 23 | Therefore we turn to you for help in ways to make lightweight canoes in a cheap but very safe manner . |
| 24 | John Berger 's exercise in Ways of Seeing of swapping the sex , while maintaining the body language and expression , of images of man and woman , remains a valid and simple kick start to an analysis of the politics of the representation of gender — whether Cadbury 's flake ads , Boucher 's ‘ Miss O'Murphy ’ , fashion photography , or the House of Commons … |
| 25 | It was easy to surrender your independence in ways which you hardly realised until too late . |
| 26 | There are undoubtedly risks in encouraging children to redirect their hostility rather than getting to the root of the problem ( if aggression is frequent and/or intense ) or training the child in ways of coping with life that do n't involve aggression . |
| 27 | 13.2.2 However , it is recognised that the Academic Partners will be expected to publish the results of their work on the project and may wish to disclose such work in ways other than by publication . |
| 28 | My job is to help youth workers develop their work in ways which are relevant and accessible to girls and young women . |
| 29 | Finally , and on an optimistic note , if information technology is used to structure the organisation of work in ways which allow more people greater flexibility and choice it becomes possible to share different kinds of work more equitably . |
| 30 | Competitiveness tends to creep into the work in ways which frequently blind the participants to the real issues being worked on . |