Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parallel between this way of thinking , and that of an engineer designing an air-conditioning system , is obvious . |
| 2 | One was that the most direct beneficiaries of this way of doing things were a handful of banks — J.P . |
| 3 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 4 | " Men go to sea before they know the unhappiness of that way of life ; and when they have come to know it they can not escape from it because it is then too late to choose another profession " . |
| 5 | To delay the attempt to begin to understand religion in these ways is to risk making it very difficult for people ever to understand . |
| 6 | The aim of RE according to the phenomenologists is promoting respect for , and understanding of , religion and its significance for behaviour in such a way as to leave intact pupils ' integrity — it is not educating into religion in any way , but educating about religion understood as more than information because involving a positive and creative approach to pluralism . |
| 7 | There was dark-haired Marise , red-headed Paula and blonde Wendy , all involved in the arts in some way , as well as a rather serious and intense kidney specialist from the hospital , Dr Terri Myers , who was separated from her husband and was two or three years older than Tom himself . |
| 8 | Essentially the approach has been to try and identify the factors or characteristics that are associated with cases or situations of abuse , to assume that these are qualitatively different from the rest of the population and finally to hypothesize that these factors or characteristics in some way relate to the basic cause(s) of the problem . |
| 9 | None of the male characters is initially typified by reference to physical characteristics in this way . |
| 10 | The county 's recruitment has been a disappointment in many ways . |
| 11 | Her face was a great disappointment in more ways than one . |
| 12 | Miss Riley served the Booksellers Association in many ways but is particularly remembered for her painstaking work on the Education Committee . |
| 13 | Until recently it was not uncommon for a librarian in a public or academic library to carry out an annual check of the entire stock in this way . |
| 14 | For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading . |
| 15 | It is sometimes forgotten that Anglo-French relations in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries in many ways resembled a family history . |
| 16 | Section I of the Partnership Act defines partnership in this way : |
| 17 | Another such project was initiated by Adorno 's contemporary Jean-Paul Sartre , whose attempt to define a new form of Hegelian Marxism via a reworked philosophy of consciousness in many ways more closely resembled that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 18 | The marginalization of consciousness in this way would certainly make life simpler for those attempting to understand our cognitive processes , but unfortunately Libet 's conclusions do not follow from his data . |
| 19 | TV arguably did help kill the News Chronicle in that way , and perhaps the London evening press . |
| 20 | A single bug may catch ten or more termites in succession in this way . |
| 21 | Thiazide diuretic agents might adversely influence carbohydrate metabolism in several ways . |
| 22 | Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ . |
| 23 | We will also see cases where we do not categorize whole organizations in this way but we separate out those functions within the organization which could be classed as Type A and those which could be classed as Type B. This can also lead to parts of public sector organizations being classified as ‘ profit-oriented ’ , a trend that has been particularly marked during the 1980s with the increasing use of Direct Service Organizations in local authorities , Hospital Trusts in the health service and Executive Agencies in the civil service . |
| 24 | It might seem appropriate to extend theft in this way in order to make it cover as many ways as possible of getting property dishonestly . |
| 25 | If I do another cardigan in this way I shall do two or even three lines on the sewing machine . |
| 26 | ‘ Penny , we do not look upon divorce and remarriage in that way , ’ said Mark sternly , but — Sophia thought rather in the tone he used when Faustina jumped on to the table and began licking the butter dish . |
| 27 | I had obviously forgiven myself far too easily ; and saying to myself I had gained from the loss in any way was just pure sophistry . |
| 28 | By balancing profits and loss in this way , total tax liability may be reduced . |
| 29 | I was simply not prepared to treat animals in that way . |
| 30 | People are are seeing animals as objects of entertainment , objects of amusement , we should not be allowing circuses to present animals in this way to our society and particularly to children . |