Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The effect is that matters disclosed in this way may not later be the subject of warranty claims . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This has been especially evident in Peru and Chile , where goals have been fought for and won in this way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) ? |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , we 're not … committed in any way . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | At the empirical level culture and nature can not be discriminated in this way . |
| 11 | There is now a considerable market value attaching to an accurate up-to-date and selective address list , and some of the largest collections of data in the private sector , running to thirty million entries or more in some cases , are amassed in this way . |
| 12 | Table 1.5 gives the figures for full-time , part-time and total degree enrolments in 11 subject groups between 1979–80 and 1986–87 , excluding the Open University where degree courses can not be grouped in this way because of the structure of foundation plus optional courses ( Open University 1989 ) . |
| 13 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 14 | Companies dispersed in this way will tend to use local firms more than they do today , reinforcing a trend towards small-scale enterprises . |
| 15 | Fleshy fruits , including figs are taken and over 100 species are known to be dispersed in this way . |
| 16 | His idea was that these have to be fused in some way in industrial societies otherwise such societies could not survive . |
| 17 | When the light is distorted in this way , the star looks as though it is in the wrong position in the sky . |
| 18 | For most people their tears are distorted in some way or another , often confused and strangled , not flowing freely . |
| 19 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 20 | Ford estimates that in academic libraries as much as one-third of all items used are found by discovery at the shelf , and in public libraries about half the books borrowed are located in this way . |
| 21 | In the case of the Lorenz equations , several new phenomena have been located in this way { 10 , 35 } , and the technique is showing promise in other systems { 10 } . |
| 22 | Hardingstone had 22 male and no female shoemakers in 1841 but twenty years later 83 males and 43 females were occupied in this way . |
| 23 | Now , as he watched him limping and staggering up the slope , it occurred to hint that he might actually be wounded in some way . |
| 24 | It is helpful in this context if one 's account of the circumstances can be exaggerated in some way , until it becomes clear that nobody , however marvellous , could have coped any better than you did . |
| 25 | We know that some at least will be cornered in dead-ends by ferrets , but not all the rabbits remaining underground will have been trapped in this way . |
| 26 | Tuna are sometimes landed when they try to swim through holes in fishing nets and get their teeth caught in the mesh ; once trapped in this way , they can be dragged on to the beach with the net . |
| 27 | The Fishing Temple at Sharpham in Devon has been let in this way for many years . |
| 28 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 29 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 30 | the task can be systematized or programmed in some way so that others can carry out the routines strictly to your requirements , thus reoccurring items are frequently delegated without undue risks being incurred |