Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 2 | I think it goes through that way , but , I think these are direct drive , but it 's actually a straight piece in |
| 3 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 4 | Should think about half way through |
| 5 | Constanza agreed with much of what he had to say ; but he did not know of any way of not letting down Anna either . |
| 6 | He knew what it was — tank sediment kept getting into the fuel pipe that fed the generator — but short of a total drain and cleanout , he did n't know of any way to cure it . |
| 7 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 8 | So you better count along that way for how many ? |
| 9 | The most basic error , which I attempted to pinpoint in discussing the sense in which the cries , hoots , and gestures of animals are ‘ primitive forms ’ of language in Chapter 5 , is to confuse the predictive value of the effects of such behaviour with the conscious intent of a speaker to communicate in some way . |
| 10 | If the distinction between tacit and explicit collusion is to mean anything , it must also be shown that the ability to communicate in some way affects the likely existence and stability of collusion . |
| 11 | She touched a finger to Tallis , then to herself , trying to communicate in some way . |
| 12 | I might remember not to treat people as if they could only act in one way . |
| 13 | If any employee is threatened with violence in order that the assailant(s) may obtain money they are carrying in the course of duty , they must not act in any way likely to place themselves or others in danger . |
| 14 | Although used to the scorn of pop stars , I was saddened that The Smiths should act in this way ) . |
| 15 | In normal development , the cells may act in this way so that the developing baby is not attacked by the mother 's defence system . |
| 16 | The effect is that matters disclosed in this way may not later be the subject of warranty claims . |
| 17 | Every village school in Eritrea is designed in this way so as to prevent detection from the air by the MIGs and Antanov bombers of the Ethiopian air force . |
| 18 | This has been especially evident in Peru and Chile , where goals have been fought for and won in this way . |
| 19 | The topic is approached in this way because scant academic attention has been paid to insider dealing in the corporate context ; furthermore , it is within this context that the Chinese Wall mechanism operates ; and finally , new rules have recently been promulgated by the SIB covering the misuse of inside information in the financial conglomerate context . |
| 20 | If these three individuals are innocent of the charge that they contributed in any way to the Holocaust , then that innocence should be revealed in a trial . |
| 21 | Our thanks are also extended to the Police and Stewards on duty and to everyone who contributed in any way to the success of the evening . |
| 22 | When a vehicle is being weighed , the weigher should satisfy himself that all the wheels are on the plate and clear of the surround , and that no person is on the vehicle or the plate , or interfering in any way which might affect the weighing , and the engine must be switched off . |
| 23 | There is no known species of plant that is not attacked in one way or another by them . |
| 24 | Is it in order that a new Member of Parliament who has not yet made his maiden speech should be attacked in this way by the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ? |
| 25 | H B F's assessment that there are about thirty one thousand dwellings already committed in one way or another in the system . |
| 26 | There 's I think it 's approximately twenty six hectares identified , erm most of which is committed in one way or another . |
| 27 | ‘ I mean , we 're not … committed in any way . ’ |
| 28 | Even in the case of married applicants for joint mortgages , the Equal Opportunities Commission ( EOC ) found that 36 per cent of building societies in their study discriminated in some way against a couple with a higher earning wife ( EOC , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | At the empirical level culture and nature can not be discriminated in this way . |
| 30 | It is probably safest for foreign learners to assume that stress will normally fall in this way on other compounds ; however , a variety of compounds receive stress instead on the second element . |