Example sentences of "[noun pl] in way [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Other authors have tried to use the theory of long waves in ways that escape from these characteristics , which they see as problematical .
2 On many occasions the interpolation splits the syntax of the spoken words in ways that require the reader not only to register the speaker but to store and carry over the syntax and sense of the quoted words :
3 They use slightly wide shots ; they make much more use of the medium-range shots showing the Members ( or the absence of Members ) around the person speaking ; there are more individual reaction shots ; and they vary the camera angles in ways that minimise the monotony that results from keeping the camera on one member for an extended period .
4 Moments of panic in the national efficiency debate often orchestrated by the new popular press — enabled medics to dramatically represent their new scientific concepts in ways that gained them intellectual hegemony and popular credibility .
5 First , social trends and policy changes are affecting low-income families in ways that leave studies rapidly out of date .
6 Any book about the inner city in 1990 can not ignore this failure and must surely look at both the reality on the ground today and at the manner in which academic analysis has conceptualised these problems in ways that have facilitated this persistence .
7 Sometimes there is , especially when one has to act on one 's beliefs in ways that affect other people .
8 The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community .
9 The Reports of the various Working Groups , taken together , should allay these misgivings and reveal possibilities for collaboration across disciplines in ways that have not yet been widely recognised , with each making its distinctive contribution .
10 Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children .
11 Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ .
12 If cash followed patients in ways that reflected the preferences of consumers informed by their family doctor , it would be possible to combine the virtues of consumer choice and free access to health care , and avoid the high cost of the American system of private health insurance .
13 It should be concerned , therefore , with evaluating educational situations in ways that provide information relevant to decision making and the analysis of policy options .
14 The only appropriate demands that we can make , as we have already remarked , is that we should be given clear examples where they are or are not at work , and that we should be shown how they interact with one another and with more complex factors in ways that lead to verifiable claims about data .
15 All peoples manipulate elements of linguistic and ‘ real ’ systems in ways that involve symbolic and logical operations .
16 In various measures after 1911 governments extended benefits in ways that undermined the true insurance basis of the scheme ; but the contributory principle remained an important political symbol , and from time to time attempts were made to return the scheme closer to its roots .
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