Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to legislate on this offence because of an evidential difficulty , which is compounded in several ways . |
| 2 | I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark . |
| 3 | As Stubbs says : ‘ Although institutionalised writing is decontextualised in these ways , it nevertheless has some firm points of contact with social situations and social purposes , even if these are indirect and heavily conventionalised ’ ( Stubbs , 1980 , p. 109 ) . |
| 4 | If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not . |
| 5 | Therefore , viewing university students as an elite is justified in many ways when considering the low proportion who can enter this group and the usually predictable social backgrounds of the successful candidates . |
| 6 | The final chance of preventing virus replication beginning , is to inhibit in some way the uncoating stage where coat proteins of the virus dissociate from the genetic material they surround , The third anti-viral drug available now is a cage-like hydrocarbon amine molecule called amantadine , which seems to inhibit the uncoating of influenza viruses in some way . |
| 7 | When the issue is examined in this way , one can not but agree with Brown 's conclusion that ‘ at best ( or worst ) taxation should have a relatively minor impact on the supply of labour , or work effort . ’ |
| 8 | If it is likely that the Purchaser has to inject money into the business it could end up losing more than it paid if there is a total disaster and the Vendor 's liability is limited in this way . |
| 9 | It is simplified in many ways : it ignores patterns of length and diphthongization and excludes tokens of post-velar environments in which front-raising occurs ( chiefly among older speakers ) . |
| 10 | However , air that is very damp can cause rot in the roofing timbers if it is evacuated in this way , so it is best to use ducting to the outside as well . |
| 11 | When a number is re-expressed in this way , y is called the logarithm of X . |
| 12 | Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case . |
| 13 | The term whose meaning is included in this way will be called the endonym , and the containing term will be called the exonym . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A woman should never flirt with a man other than her husband , but this does not mean that she is oppressed in any way . |
| 16 | When the light is distorted in this way , the star looks as though it is in the wrong position in the sky . |
| 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 | At this stage it may be sensible to rely on your instinct but a further step that is worth trying is to give each candidate a simple task to perform that is related in some way to the post which is to be filled . |
| 19 | Many detailed studies have been carried out on the nature of the consumption relationship and all seem to agree that , for the community as a whole , consumption is related in some way to income . |
| 20 | In terms of the isolating vector ei this may be written unc and if P(A) is expanded in this way , the first term , which is typical will be unc The square matrices on the right of these equations are all of unit rank ; we may write the last as unc where x1 is the first column of X , and unc the first row of |
| 21 | If it is seen in this way the burden for change rests with black staff and not with the white staff and institutions which perpetuate discrimination and racism . |
| 22 | Where ferreting is curtailed in this way you may be able to trap the entrance holes and snare the nearby runs ; you may also be able to crop the rabbits by night netting and by evening and night shooting . |
| 23 | Because aggression is ritualised in this way , it poses few threats to the individuals involved . |
| 24 | I feel very feminine when my hair is done up that way . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , I think its effect is to distort in some ways the dualism set up by Proust . |
| 26 | The literary judgement contained in the phrase ‘ almost embarrassing success ’ is offered in another way when the author , writing this time under his real name of J. I. M. Stewart , led his readers to an understanding of a super-hero , spy and adventurer whose exploits were made possible because he had retained the boyhood characteristics nourished by a certain area of reading . |
| 27 | Because the finished product is produced in this way , it is not necessarily vital for the art director to draw well , but it certainly helps . |
| 28 | If the problem is interpreted in this way , the debate between holists and individualists centres initially on the relative scope of the two approaches . |
| 29 | If section 6(2) is interpreted in this way , the liability of the contravener can be regarded as a primary liability ; the liability of the responsible third party is an accessory liability . |
| 30 | Instead we must present this sequence as entirely Waindell Leavitt 's folly , into which Claudia is drawn in some way to protect the Masai against manipulation . |