Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sidner ( 1979a , b ) concentrated on local rather than global focus , arguing that a local focus-driven approach could significantly reduce problems of inference , and providing a detailed set of algorithms for applying focus in this way . |
| 2 | Using BACKUP in this way automatically does a hierarchical copy with CRC check . |
| 3 | One of the advantages of using drama in this way ( when the narrative continues over a period of several weeks ) is that both the teacher and the children can change roles , enabling us to look at any given topic from different points of view . |
| 4 | ‘ We are selling life-style in same way as the Americans sell Levis or Coca Cola . ’ |
| 5 | Otherwise you will be increasing the accident risks by directing traffic in that way . |
| 6 | By analysing speech in this way we are able to show the relationships between strong and weak elements , and the different levels of stress that we find . |
| 7 | By examining decentralization in this way , the restructuring school argued , the role of regional policy was seen to be more complex . |
| 8 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 9 | But agricultural capitalism was wholly unprogressive , merely exploiting the poor without advancing production in any way . |
| 10 | ‘ Those waters were not particularly dangerous — perhaps she was taking part in some way in the ‘ pacification ’ of the Highlands . |
| 11 | Every nation in the world has some form of national network for transmitting information in these ways . |
| 12 | Indeed , the opposite was frequently nearer the truth , for their leaders were often members of the lower nobility , driven to making war in this way by economic factors and , in some cases , by being younger sons with little hope of inheritance . |
| 13 | Dave Edwards , Chair of the National Caving Association 's working party on radon , says that it 's important to put the risk of catching cancer in this way into context . |
| 14 | Organising care in this way also meant that if a task was not allocated to anyone , for whatever reason , it never got done , whether it was necessary or not ! |
| 15 | However , although there is clearly scope for raising revenue in this way , the amounts |
| 16 | By ensuring rejection in this way he was also ensuring that he would not be enslaved by anyone else 's methods of work . |
| 17 | In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients . |
| 18 | Following reason in this way shows that one knows how to go on ( to use again Wittgenstein 's phrase ) within the discipline . |