Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She touched a finger to Tallis , then to herself , trying to communicate in some way . |
| 4 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |
| 5 | Since this is the way we read , it is easier and more natural to work in this way . |
| 6 | On the basis of my professional acquaintance with some of the workers involved in the Kent and later Darlington projects , I can say that this appeared to be the result , and that there were real incentives for the workers to work in this way . |
| 7 | Your concern about the ability of commodity exporters to adjust in this way is understandable . |
| 8 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 9 | They encapsulate the democratically arrived-at beliefs both that it is wrong for animals to suffer in such ways , and also that legislation will lead to an amelioration in the behaviour of farmers and poachers . |
| 10 | He was executed in 1535 , the first of seven Chancellors of the university to suffer in this way , and canonised in 1935 . |
| 11 | The author of the Anonimalle Chronicle , however , who evidently had some admiration for Gaunt 's achievement , believed that the army only began to suffer in this way when it wintered in Gascony . |
| 12 | She knew finally why she had stayed to suffer in this way , so she could explain to him and he would see . |
| 13 | We need to know for certain that if a person were to suffer in this way , the care will be there for them . |
| 14 | Not allowing children to suffer in any way : if one parent is the primary sufferer the inter-parental relationship can possibly be restored after the primary sufferer is in recovery . |
| 15 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 16 | He refused to compromise in any way and , throughout his long association with the club , only mastered two words in English , both of which he frequently practised on referees . |
| 17 | There was no justification for the ban in the first place and is the Secretary of State not concerned that the International Labour Organisation has expressed much concern over the continuing ban and it may well be that in view of the fact that the government is not willing to compromise in any way the I L O may well decide to formally rebuke and reprimand the government . |
| 18 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 19 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 20 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 21 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if two components are to relate in some way to provide a desired function , it must take place in an intersection zone ( which includes touching areas — zones of zero depth or wholly inserted spaces ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps the regrettable feature of the conversion of Shawell school — which is being carried out with great care and sensitivity — is the retention of the 1950s flat-roofed WCs extension which , almost gratuitously , fails to relate in any way to the form of the original building . |
| 24 | to the Chancellor 's announcement referred to pay awards in the public sector in their totality , not to relate in any way to the regularity or amount of increments . |
| 25 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 26 | Er I do n't think it probably that it does decide help you decide where the location ought to be , but that having said that , I would not want to minimize in any way er the views of my authority er as to the importance erm of the look of contributions from the private sector . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no effect in nature which the Author of nature can not bring to pass by more ways than one . ’ |
| 28 | Even though I did not draw even 15th in the ballot and can offer neither blackmail nor whitemail , I hope that there will be a firm commitment from my right hon. and learned Friend , endorsed by the Opposition parties , that the law needs to be amended , not to restrict in any way the freedom of those who are innocent until proved guilty but to prevent the vile calumny which we are discussing from being perpetrated again . |
| 29 | What is going on when we get our students seriously to reflect in this way ? |
| 30 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |