Example sentences of "[vb pp] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is good news to anyone who has witnessed the way art museums have come to regard paintings and other objects placed in their perpetual trust as a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will . |
| 2 | ANDES has criticized the way in which the mass media portray women and in 1975 staged a protest march against the Miss Universe beauty contest held in San Salvador that year . |
| 3 | Feminists active in the disability rights movement have criticized the way many women have used the fear of disability to argue for abortion rights , and ask us to reassess our relationship to genetic screening . |
| 4 | She twisted the damp handkerchief in hands whose nails were still pitifully and bravely painted the way Charlie Hatton had liked them , red and shiny and glittering . |
| 5 | For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting . |
| 6 | In Britain , the 1990 Broadcasting Act has significantly altered the way in which the Christian faith can be represented in radio programmes . |
| 7 | With his account of the three categories , Habermas has also substantially altered the way in which ‘ ideology ’ can be considered . |
| 8 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 9 | Would that have altered the way he 'd always felt about her ? |
| 10 | Given the way things have gone lately , that in itself is cause for mild celebration . |
| 11 | Which , given the way Wally rambles on , is scarcely surprising . |
| 12 | Mr Dear repeated that , although the six were interviewed by the squad , there was no link he could see , although he understood the well-placed concern — ‘ which must be highly confused now , given the way in which the pro-Provisional propaganda machine is running , fogging the issue ’ . |
| 13 | Yes , I told the King of imminent danger but , given the way he charged round his kingdom in the dead of night , even the court fool could have warned him just as accurately . ’ |
| 14 | His violent death was only a matter of course given the way he lived . |
| 15 | For all this , primary products exported outside the Bloc have ( at least since 1974 ) been worth more in dollar terms than they have within it ; but given the way goods are priced within it , this may mean less than meets the eye . |
| 16 | This is hardly surprising , given the way governments the world over have for decades hammered home the dogma of prohibition . |
| 17 | Given the way the literature has developed , we shall spend more time here on the idea of value-based pricing — charging prices in proportion to value of the service to the user on a multiproduct basis . |
| 18 | Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional . |
| 19 | It follows that the question " How many substances ? " is strictly meaningless , for given the way " substance " is defined , it is logically impossible that there should be more than one . |
| 20 | Given the way that research is structured , where for instance research students in the sciences and social sciences are often engaged to assist staff in large-scale research projects , research students as a matter of fact are part of the total research enterprise of the academic community . |
| 21 | The question makes particular sense given the way the debate over academic freedom has been cast both in the UK and in the USA . |
| 22 | Now , the latter three are clearly matters of academic freedom , given the way in which academic freedom is commonly understood . |
| 23 | The problem is that the prospect is unlikely given the way that the established system works . |
| 24 | ‘ What decent woman would not be , ’ said Sally-Anne , waving her biscuit at him , ‘ given the way in which society treats us ? |
| 25 | She had felt so scratchy and irritable before — not surprising , given the way the day had gone , but hardly fair , perhaps , to take it all out on him — Most of it , she thought , smiling , yes . |
| 26 | Given the way that business is suffering under the policies and decisions of this Government , and especially the policies of the Prime Minister , does the Minister recognise that he has a responsibility to ask his officials to deal with businesses in such a way as to enable them , wherever possible , to retain jobs and to keep their businesses going ? |
| 27 | Given the way in which the grant works , the national gallery is only able to buy works on instalments . |
| 28 | Michael Land of Sussex University , our foremost authority on invertebrate eyes , is worried , and so am I. Is it that the necessary mutations can not arise , given the way Nautilus embryos develop ? |
| 29 | This is something which the government has learned how to do , so I must think that this is highly motivated politically on their part , given the way in which the difference between public information and conservative party political propaganda is becoming a blur to . |
| 30 | Such a modest objective perhaps seemed prudent given the way the issue of how to increase the proportion of women at the very top already seems to have run into so many brick walls . |