Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If two people meet socially , face to face , sooner or later one of them will speak , or acknowledge in some way the presence of the other — even if it 's only a nod . |
| 2 | Telecommunications were easier to build , service , and tap in this way . |
| 3 | There was after all nothing remarkable about seeing two men kiss in that way at that time of the night . |
| 4 | But ask them why they interact in this way and they will eventually pass you on to a scientist who ( no matter how many equations they might try to confuse you with ) in the end can only say ‘ Well , that 's the way things are ’ . |
| 5 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 6 | We 've got minus four take away eight , so we start at minus four start there and then we take away , which means count along that way for eight , so we get minus five , minus six , minus seven , minus eight , minus nine , minus ten , minus eleven , minus twelve Okay ? |
| 7 | The other way of looking at it is you can say I 'm going to count you start from nought and you count along that way until you get to this number , so I 'd go nought minus one , minus two , minus three . |
| 8 | Whether in practice they act in this way has not been established convincingly . |
| 9 | If all teams act in this way , overall control will be maintained . |
| 10 | On the contrary , as we began this book by noticing , most people think that judges who act in this way are usurpers . |
| 11 | It is assumed that so-called reminder treatments act in some way to increase the likelihood that associations ( especially weak ones that will be most in need of such help ) will be effective in generating overt conditioned responding , then the pattern of results observed can be accommodated . |
| 12 | Circuses which use animals do so for profit , and there is no satisfactory scientific evidence that animals benefit in any way from their experiences in such an establishment — they can not educate the public in the artificial environment of performing tricks , they only serve to entertain . |
| 13 | Now if that happens , the farmer would probably be prosecuted , and yet it is the case that many chickens die in that way every day . |
| 14 | Put in another way , force is underpinned by dominant values extensively shared by the population and which support the operation of the state . |
| 15 | Put in another way , the same smoothing recipe applied to different time series will produce different resulting shapes for the smooth , which , as we shall see in the next chapter , is not the case when fitting straight lines . |
| 16 | Put in another way the proposal is that a man should seek to know and fully understand the criteria which determine his thoughts and actions . |
| 17 | Put in this way , management of the economy seems to have been grossly at fault . |
| 18 | But without your support and your demonstrations and support from whites in other countries with the rugby demonstrations , the cricket , with all aspects that you 've done , you 've also contributed to making it easier for us to be the kind of people we would like to be and I hope in that way we therefore do share as a family and then try and create one world . |
| 19 | Er , and we are not in terms of any comparative statistics that are providing costs on management and support in any way a high spender vis a vis other local authorities , . |
| 20 | Comment : We often react in this way when we 're unsure what emotional needs the other person is expressing , and how to deal with them . |
| 21 | Although the powers of income tax collectors are limited by law , poll tax collectors count in many ways as Customs and Excisemen , whose powers are almost unlimited . |
| 22 | Almost all of these elements depend in some way for their initial success on the brigade 's own advanced forces , the Pathfinder Platoon . |
| 23 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 24 | Read in this way , community policing in Northern Ireland seems designed exclusively to improve relations between the police and Catholics , but it is much wider than this for it is also employed in Protestant t areas like Easton , where the existence of ‘ ordinary crime ’ ensures that the police are keen to improve crime prevention by better relations with the public generally . |
| 25 | They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on . |
| 26 | Many first phrases begin in this way , with a preparatory note or group of notes , and it is usual for each succeeding phrase to begin with a similar anacrusis . |
| 27 | Since there are no long words that begin in this way , the short word I , , is retrieved from the buffer and stored on the word graph ( Fig 7.5.2 ) . |
| 28 | Drugs movies such as Naked Lunch and My Own Private Idaho seem in many ways to play deliberately on the similarities between drug experience and watching a film : both of these are clearly just as much concerned with seeing wonderful things in the dark as they are with falling apart under pressure . |
| 29 | ( This may indeed reflect the fact that such adjectives seem in some way to constitute a more sophisticated manipulation of language than any we have seen in the adjectives discussed before ) . |
| 30 | Cos , in case there was a mistake and on one side and I , and I had quite a number of things accumulate in that way you know . |